Yūta Wakimoto

Yūta Wakimoto
	Yuta Wakimoto (2018)
To person
Date of birth	March 21, 1989
nation	Japan
discipline	train
Driver type	Train: short term
Most important successes
	Track cycling world cup 2018 1st run in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines - Keirin 2017 4th run in Santiago de Chile - Keirin Asian cycling championships 2014, 2017, 2019 - Keirin
	Last updated: September 9, 2018

Yūta Wakimoto ( Japanese 脇本雄太 , Wakimoto Yūta ; born March 21, 1989 in Fukui , Fukui Prefecture ) is a Japanese track cyclist who specializes in short-term disciplines.

In 2014, Yuta Wakimoto was Asian champion in the Keirin , and in the 1000-meter time trial he won silver. In this discipline, he also became national champion in 2014 and finished fifth in the Keirin at the Asian Games .

Also in the Keirin, Wakimoto came second overall at the Track Cycling World Cup 2015/16 ; at the UCI Track World Championships in London in 2016 , he finished fifth. In the same year he was nominated to start in this discipline at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where he finished 13th.