Tomoyuki Kawabata (cyclist)

Tomoyuki Kawabata

Tomoyuki Kawabata as Vice World Champion in Keirin 2018
To person
Date of birth	7th February 1985
nation	Japan
Most important successes
UCI track world championships 2018 - Keirin Asian Championships 2015 - Sprint
Last updated: March 12, 2020

Tomoyuki Kawabata (born February 7, 1985 ) is a Japanese cyclist.

Athletic career

In 2012 Tomoyuki Kawabata became three-time Japanese champion, in the sprint , keirin and with Kenta Inake and Takashi Sakamoto in the team sprint . At the Asian Games in 2014 he won a silver medal in the sprint and, together with Seiichirō Nakagawa and Kazunari Watanabe, bronze in the team sprint. In 2015 he was Asian champion in the sprint. At the Asian Championships in 2017 he again won silver in the sprint and bronze in the team sprint (with Kazunari Watanabe and Kazuki Amagai ).

At the 2018 UCI Track World Championships , Kawabata won the silver medal in the Keirin. After Toshimasa Yoshioka in 1993, he was the first Japanese to win a World Cup medal in this Japanese discipline. The multiple sprint world champion Kōichi Nakano announced at a press conference that Kawabata would receive a cash prize of the equivalent of 35,000 euros from the JKA Foundation for this medal .

successes

2012

• Japanese Champion - Sprint, Keirin, Team Sprint (with Kenta Inake and Takashi Sakamoto )

2014

• Asian Games - Sprint
• Asian Games - Team Sprint (with Seiichirō Nakagawa and Kazunari Watanabe )

2015

• Asian Champion - Sprint

2016

• Japanese master - Keirin

2017

• Asian Championship - Sprint
• Asian Championship - Team Sprint (with Kazunari Watanabe and Kazuki Amagai )

2018

• World Championship - Keirin

2019

• Asian Cup - Keirin
• Japanese champion - sprint

Web links

Commons : Tomoyuki Kawabata  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tomoyuki Kawabata in the database of Radsportseiten.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tomoyuki Kawabata en de geldbuidel. (No longer available online.) In: baanwacht.nl. Archived from the original on March 11, 2018 ; Retrieved March 11, 2018 (Dutch). 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.