Yūmi Kajihara

Yūmi Kajihara
	Yūmi Kajihara - Omnium 2020 World Champion
To person
Date of birth	April 10, 1997
nation	Japan
discipline	Railway (endurance) / road
Societies)
	Tsubaka Cycling Club
Most important successes
	UCI track world championships 2020 - Omnium Track cycling world cup 2017/18 3rd run in Milton - Omnium Asian Championships 2017 - Omnium 2017 - Omnium, points race 2016 - Scratch
	Last updated: March 6, 2020

Yūmi Kajihara ( Japanese 梶原悠未 , Kajihara Yūmi ; born April 10, 1997 ) is a Japanese cyclist who competes in track and road cycling . In 2020 she became world champion in the Omnium , making her the first Japanese woman to win a track cycling world championship.

Athletic career

Yūmi Kajihara has been successfully participating in international cycling competitions since 2014. That year she was two-time Asian junior vice-champion in individual time trial and road racing. In the following year she won three Asian championship titles in the junior women, in the individual time trial and in the road as well as in the points race on the track. At the 2015 UCI Track World Championships for Juniors , she won two medals, silver in the points race and bronze in the team pursuit, and later that year she finished fourth in the road race for women at the road world championships .

From 2016 Kajihara started in the elite, was Asian champion in scratch on the track . In the overall ranking of the Track Cycling World Cup 2016/17 , we finished eighth in the overall Omnium ranking. In the following year, she won two Asian titles on the track - in the Omnium and in the points race -, came second in the single pursuit and came third in the individual time trial on the road. At the beginning of December she achieved her greatest success to date when she won the Omnium in the third round of the Track Cycling World Cup in Milton, Canada . At the 2018 Asian Games , she won gold in the Omnium and bronze in the team pursuit with Kisato Nakamura , Miha Yoshikawa and Yuya Hashimoto .

At the UCI Bahn World Championships 2020 in Berlin , she became world champion in the Omnium at the beginning of the year. She is the first Japanese woman to win a track cycling world title.