YONAMINE Eri

Date of Birth: 25 Apr 1991

Age: 30

Gender: Female

Height (m/ft): 1.61/5'3''

Place of birth: SAKAI

Birth Country:

Japan

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Cycling Road	Women's Road Race	21
	Women's Individual Time Trial	22

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Fuji International Speedway	Women's Road Race	Finished
	Fuji International Speedway	Women's Individual Time Trial	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

CYCLING ROAD

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Road Race	Individual Time Trial
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	17	15

UCI Road World Championships

Year	Location	Road Race	Individual Time Trial
2020	Imola, ITA	21	31
2019	Harrogate, GBR	DNF	29
2018	Innsbruck, AUT	79	29
2017	Bergen, NOR	50	22
2016	Doha, QAT	86	21
2015	Richmond, VA, USA	63	18
2014	Ponferrada, ESP	22	14
2013	Florence, ITA	40	27

Ten best performances in major races in career

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
9	2019	Team Time Trial	Vargarda TTT	Vargarda, SWE
11	2017	Road Race	La Course by Le Tour	Col d'Izoard, FRA
11	2016	Road Race	Philadelphia Classic	Philadelphia, PA, USA
13	2019	Road Race	Strade Bianche	Siena, ITA
15	2017	Road Race	La Course by Le Tour	Marseille, FRA
18	2017	Women's Individual	Emakumeen Bira	Renteria, ESP
21	2016	Women's Individual	Tour of California	Sacramento, CA, USA
23	2019	Road Race	La Course by Le Tour	Pau, FRA
24	2019	Women's Individual	Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta	Madrid, ESP
25	2016	Women's Individual	Giro Rosa	Verbania, ITA

Asian Games

Year	Location	Road Race	Individual Time Trial
2018	Indonesia	3	2

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

CYCLING MOUNTAIN BIKE

World Championships

Year	Location	Cross-country	XCO Eliminator
2014	Hafjell, NOR	60	25

Legend
IP - In Progress, XCO - Cross-country, X - Mixed, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Occupation:

School of Health and Physical Education University of Tsukuba, Japan

Languages spoken:

English, Japanese

Team TIBCO - Silicon Valley Bank [United States of America] since 2021

Other sports:

She has represented Japan in both mountain bike and cyclo cross. (SportsDeskOnline, 06 Jul 2016)

Turned professional in 2016

She took up cycling competitively in 2011 while she was a university student. (eriy.jp, 23 Oct 2019)

She initially joined the tennis club at university, but she was not very good at the sport. Her uncle then suggested she should try cycling and bought her a bike. (cyclowired.jp, 18 Dec 2013)

To win a medal in the individual time trial at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (cyclist.sanspo.com, 15 Aug 2016)

Finishing in 11th place at the 2017 La Course by Le Tour de France, and placing 13th at the 2019 Strade Bianche in Siena, Italy. (teamtibco-svb.com, Jan 2021)

She was given Combativity Award in the 2017 Boels Rental Ladies Tour in the Netherlands. (cyclist.sanspo.com, 24 Nov 2017)

General Interest

General
SOCIAL CONTRIBUTION
Following the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, she intends to establish a school for people with an intellectual impairment. The institute will be based in Sakai, Japan. "I will be involved in lecturing and coaching. I want to make the best use of the publicity from the Olympic Games. The 2020 Games are not only for myself." (cyclist.sanspo.com, 03 Jan 2020)

Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/eri.yonamine.5
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/eri.yonamine.official/
https://instagram.com/eriyonamine/
https://twitter.com/yonamineeri
Athlete Website: http://eriy.jp/

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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