WAKIMOTO Yuta

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Keirin
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	13

World Championships

Year	Location	Sprint	Keirin
2020	Berlin, GER	-	2
2019	Pruszkow, POL	25	8
2018	Apeldoorn, NED	16	9
2017	Hong Kong, CHN	-	25
2016	London, GBR	-	5
2014	Cali, COL	-	21

Asian Games

Year	Location	Sprint
2018	Indonesia	7

Asian Championships

Year	Location	Sprint	Keirin
2020	Republic of Korea	2	1
2019	Jakarta, INA	-	1
2017	New Delhi, IND	3	1

Nations Cup

Year	Location	Sprint	Keirin
2021	Hong Kong, CHN	2	2

World Cup (Ranking)

Rank	Event	Year
6	Keirin	2017/2018
10	Keirin	2018/2019
21	Keirin	2019/2020
21	Sprint	2017/2018
37	Sprint	2019/2020
46	Sprint	2016/2017
50	Sprint	2018/2019

World Cup

Year	Location	Sprint	Keirin	Team Sprint
2019/2020	Brisbane, QLD, AUS	6	7	-
2019/2020	Cambridge, NZL	27	5	-
2018/2019	Milton, ON, CAN	14	6	-
2018/2019	Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, FRA	26	1	-
2017/2018	Santiago, CHI	12	1	-
2017/2018	Milton, ON, CAN	16	4	-
2017/2018	Manchester, GBR	24	-	11
2017/2018	Pruszkow, POL	22	12	-
2016/2017	Los Angeles, CA, USA	24	-	8

Legend
IP - Individual Pursuit, TP - Team Pursuit, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Wakkie (nikkansports.com, 14 Mar 2018)

Gaming, drinking and making coffee. (BIZ Channel YouTube channel, 18 Jul 2020)

Athlete

Wife Marina

Japanese

Team Bridgestone [Japan]

Wataru Mutsumine [club], JPN; Benoit Vetu [national], FRA

His younger brother Yuki has represented Japan in track cycling, and placed fifth in keirin at the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia. (SportsDeskOnline, 23 Jul 2020; daily.co.jp, 28 Jun 2019)

He fractured his left collarbone and had to withdraw from the 2015 World Championships in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France. (joc.or.jp, 18 Feb 2015)

He had surgery on a fractured right collarbone after falling during a competition in July 2014. He returned to training two weeks after the operation in order to compete at the 2014 Asian Championships, but he suffered further problems when the pin inserted into his collarbone became bent. (fukuishimbun.co.jp, 26 Sep 2014)

He began cycling at Kagakugijutsu High School in Fukui, Japan. (hochi.co.jp, 05 Jun 2020)

One of his teachers and one of his friends encouraged him to take up the sport. (chunichi.co.jp, 07 Apr 2016)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo before retiring from international competition. (hochi.co.jp, 05 Jun 2020; BIZ Channel YouTube channel, 07 Jul 2020)

Winning the keirin at the 2017 World Cup event in Santiago, Chile. (morecadence.jp, 13 May 2020)

Japanese cyclist Keiji Kojima. (keirin-station.com, 20 Jul 2014)

His mother, who passed away in 2011, and his high school coach Masao Tsuji. (daily.co.jp, 05 Jun 2020; hochi.co.jp, 07 Apr 2016; fukuishimbun.co.jp, 16 Aug 2016)

In 2017 he was given an International Award by the Japan Keirin Association [JKA]. (girlskeirin.com, 29 Jan 2018)

In 2016 he received the Fukui City Sports Excellence Award in Japan. (city.fukui.lg.jp, 16 Mar 2017)