Miho Oki

Miho Oki

To person
Date of birth	March 8, 1974
nation	Japan
discipline	Street
To the team
Current team	End of career
function	driver
Most important successes
Asian cycling championships 2008 - road racing 2007 - individual time trial
Last updated: November 1st, 2016

Miho Oki ( Japanese 沖 美 穂 , Oki Miho ; born March 8, 1974 in Shimizu ) is a former Japanese cyclist . She is the first Japanese female cyclist to race in Europe.

Athletic career

Miho Oki was the most successful Japanese female cyclist of the 2000s. Between 1999 and 2008 she was Japanese road racing champion ten times in a row - this championship was held for the first time in 1998 - and twice in the individual time trial . She competed three times - in 2000 , 2004 and 2008 - in road races at the Olympic Games. In 2004 in Athens she achieved her best placement with rank 20. In 2007 she finished third in the time trial at the Asian Cycling Championships, and the following year she became Asian runner-up in road racing.

Oki rode for Dutch and Italian teams throughout her cycling career and was the first Japanese female cyclist to compete in races in Europe.

Since the end of her active career, Miho Oki has worked as a consultant for the Japan Cycling Federation , is a member of the women's committee of the Japanese Olympic Committee and works as a trainer at the Japan Keirin School .

successes

1999

• Japanese champion - road race

2000

• Tour de Okinawa
• Japanese champion - road race

2001

• Japanese champion - road race

2002

• Trophée des Grimpeurs
• Japanese champion - road race

2003

• Japanese champion - road race

2004

• Japanese champion - road race

2005

• Japanese champion - road race

2006

• Japanese champion - road race, individual time trial

2007

• Asian Championship - Individual Time Trial
• Japanese champion - road race, individual time trial

2008

• Asian Championship - Road Race
• Japanese champion - road race

Teams

• 2003-2004 Farm Frites-Hartol
• 2005-2006 Nobili Rubinetterie-Menikini-Cogeas
• 2007 Menikini-Selle Italia-Gysko
• 2008 Menikini-Selle Italia-Master Colors

Web links

• Miho Oki in the database of Radsportseiten.net
• Miho Oki in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Miho Oki in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

References and comments

1. ^ Portfolio: Betting On Senko in Japan. (No longer available online.) In: - Velocio. April 20, 2014, archived from the original on November 4, 2016 ; accessed on November 2, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ In some sources Miho Oki is given as the first Japanese road champion in 1998, so that she would have been champion eleven times in a row. radsportseiten.net names Miho Masuchi as the first female champion.