Kazunari Watanabe

Kazunari Watanabe

Kazunari Watanabe (2018)
To person
Date of birth	August 12, 1983
nation	Japan
discipline	Train: short term
Most important successes
Asian Games 2006 - team sprint (with Kazuya Narita and Yudai Nitta ) Asian cycling championships 2012 - Sprint 2010 - Keirin 2009 - Keirin
Last updated: September 15, 2019

Kazunari Watanabe ( Japanese 渡 邉 一 成 , Watanabe Kazunari ; born August 12, 1983 in Futaba , Futaba-gun , Fukushima Prefecture ) is a Japanese track cyclist .

Kazunari Watanabe specializes in the short-term disciplines in track cycling. Several times he took podium places in World Cup races in team sprints . In 2004 he won silver in this discipline in Moscow and in 2005 in Sydney. In 2006 gold followed at the Asian Games in Doha , together with Kazuya Narita and Yudai Nitta . Silver followed again in Copenhagen in 2008 . In 2010 he finished second in the team sprint at the Asian Games in Guangzhou , with Narita and Nitta. At the 2011 UCI Track World Championships in Apeldoorn , he finished tenth with Nitta and Kazuka Amagai, and fourth at the World Championships in Melbourne the following year with Amagai and Seiichiro Nagakawa . Also in 2012 he was Asian champion in the sprint .

In 2008 Watanabe started at the Olympic Games in Beijing in the sprint (12th place) and in the team sprint (6th place). In London he finished eleventh in the keirin and eighth in the team sprint (with Seiichirō Nakagawa and Yudai Nitta ). In 2016 he was nominated for participation in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and came in 21st in the Keirin.

successes

2006

• Asian Game Winner - Team Sprint (with Kazuya Narita and Yudai Nitta )

2009

• Asian champion - Keirin
• Asian Championship - Sprint

2010

• Asian champion - Keirin
• Asian Championship - Team Sprint (with Kazuya Narita and Yudai Nitta )
• Asian Games - Team Sprint (with Kazuya Narita and Yudai Nitta )

2012

• Asian Champion - Sprint

2013

• Japanese master - Keirin

2014

• Asian Championship - Team Sprint (with Seiichirō Nakagawa and Yudai Nitta )
• Asian Games - Keirin
• Asian Games - Team Sprint (with Tomoyuki Kawabata and Seiichirō Nakagawa )
• Japanese champion - sprint, keirin

2015

• Asian Championship - Keirin, Team Sprint (with Yudai Nitta and Kazuki Amagai )

2016

• Asian Championship - Team Sprint (with Seiichirō Nakagawa and Kazuki Amagai )

2017

• Asian Cup - Keirin
• Asian Championship - Team Sprint (with Kazuki Amagai and Tomoyuki Kawabata )

2018

• Asian Championship - Sprint, Team Sprint (with Tomoyuki Kawabata and Yoshitaku Nagasako )
• Japanese master - Keirin

Teams

• 2012 Cyclo Channel Tokyo

Web links

Commons : Kazunari Watanabe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kazunari Watanabe in the database of Radsportseiten.net
• Kazunari Watanabe in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )