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Result
Date	Time	Event	Results
Date	Time	Event	Rank	Average Speed	Final Time
21 SEP 2014	06:00	Men's Team Pursuit Finals - Bronze	3	57.953	4:08.474
21 SEP 2014	04:12	Men's Team Pursuit First Round - Heat 4	2	57.954	4:08.470
20 SEP 2014	05:00	Men's Team Pursuit Qualifying	4	56.982	4:12.711

Rank	Event	Year	Location
World Championships
12	Omnium	2014	Cali, COL
World Cup (Ranking)
10	Omnium	2013/2014
23	Omnium	2012/2013
World Cup
8	Omnium	2013/2014	Guadalajara, MEX
9	Omnium	2012/2013	Glasgow, GBR
11	Omnium	2013/2014	Aguascalientes, MEX
15	Omnium	2012/2013	Aguascalientes, MEX
Asian Championships
2	Omnium	2014	Astana, KAZ
2	Team Pursuit	2013	New Delhi, IND
5	Points Race	2013	New Delhi, IND
East Asian Games
2	4km Individual Pursuit	2013	Tianjin, CHN
UCI Ranking
15	Omnium	2014/2015
41	4km Individual Pursuit	2014/2015
85	Points Race	2014/2015
175	Scratch	2014/2015
420	Sprint	2014/2015

Biography
Occupation	Student
Higher education	National Institute of Fitness and Sports, Kanoya, JPN
Languages Spoken	Japanese
Coach	Sakamoto Tsutomu [national], Kurokawa Tsuyoshi [club] (JPN) (jcf.or.jp, 04 Feb 2014; mainichi.jp, 20 Apr 2014)
Additional Information	Start of sporting career He started concentrating on cycling at about age 14. (mainichi.jp, 20 Apr 2014) Reason for taking up this sport He started as a triathlete as his parents did it as a hobby, but he started to concentrate on cycling in his early teens. (mainichi.jp, 20 Apr 2014) General NATIONAL FIRST He was the first cyclist to win a Japanese national title on four consecutive occasions. (mainichi.jp, 20 Apr 2014) Social Media Hear more from the athlete via their Facebook.