Yudai Nitta

Yudai Nitta
	Yudai Nitta (2016)
To person
Date of birth	June 25, 1986
nation	Japan
discipline	Train (short term)
Most important successes
	UCI track world championships 2019 - Keirin Asian Games 2006 - team sprint East Asian Games 2013 - Sprint, 1000-meter time trial Asian Championships 2019, 2020 - team sprint
	Last updated: October 29, 2019

Yudai Nitta (born June 25, 1986 in Aizu-Wakamatsu ) is a Japanese cyclist.

Athletic career

In 2004, Yudai Nitta won his first international medal when he won silver in the Junior Asian Games. Two years later he was together with Kazuya Narita and Kazunari Watanabe Asian game winner in the team sprint , together with (with Kazuya Narita and Kazunari Watanabe). In the following years he won other medals at Asian championships and games. In 2012 Nitta started at the Olympic Games in London and finished eighth in the team sprint together with Seiichirō Nakagawa and Kazunari Watanabe, and in 2013 he was a two-time winner of the East Asian Games in the sprint and in the 1000-meter time trial . In the overall Keirin ranking of the Track Cycling World Cup 2017/18 , he finished seventh.

In addition to the races in the international competition calendar of the World Cycling Association UCI , Nitta also competes very successfully in competitions of the Japanese Keirin Circuit of the Japanese Keirin Foundation . He earned two million dollars in prize money in one year alone (2014 or 2015). In order to achieve his goal of becoming the “world's best Keirin driver”, he temporarily relocated his training location to Adelaide , Australia , as there is a covered cycle track there, unlike in Japan.