MASUDA Nariyuki

Asian Championships

Year	Location	Road Race	Team Time Trial
2019	Tashkent, UZB	7	5
2017	Manama, BRN	26	2

Legend
DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified, OTL - Outside the Time Limit

Athlete

Aerospace Engineering - Nihon University , Tokyo, JPN

Japanese

Utsunomiya Blitzen [Japan] since 2014

Turned professional in 2006

He suffering a fractured hip during the Tour of Japan in May 2019. (cyclist.sanspo.com, 27 Jun 2019)

In 2017 he was diagnosed with Graves' disease that causes hyperthyroidism. (store.descente.co.jp, 13 Mar 2020

In October 2011 he fractured his right clavicle and scapula in a fall at the J-Pro Tour in Wajima, Japan. He was sidelined for two months. (funq.jp, 08 Jan 2020; cyclowired.jp, 28 Apr 2012)

He began cycling in grade 11 of high school, and took up the sport seriously in his first year at Nihon University in Tokyo, Japan. (funq.jp, 11 Dec 2019)

He initially played soft tennis while in middle school. He got involved in cycling in high school after he was inspired by a Japanese comic book called 'Shakariki'. Although he took a break from the sport in order to get into a university where he aspired to study aerospace engineering, afterwards he decided to focus on the sport. "The pilot's ability is similar to the hill-climbing method, so road cycling was one of the training methods. When I retired from being a pilot, I remembered the time that I kept stepping on the pedal desperately. It made me want to become a professional cyclist." (funq.jp, 11 Dec 2019; cst.nihon-u.ac.jp, 01 Jul 2019)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (GCN Japan YouTube channel, 06 May 2020)

"Think good feeling when it's difficult." (funq.jp, 08 Jan 2020)