Fumiyuki Beppu
 Beppu at the 2012 Liège-Bastogne-Liège | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Fumiyuki Beppu |
| Born |
10 April 1983 Kanagawa-ken, Japan |
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)[1] |
| Weight | 70 kg (150 lb; 11 st)[1] |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Trek Factory Racing |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Amateur team(s) | |
| 2003–2004 | Vélo-Club La Pomme Marseille |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2005–2007 2008–2009 2010–2011 2012–2013 2014– |
Discovery Channel Skil-Shimano Team RadioShack GreenEDGE[2] Trek Factory Racing |
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Infobox last updated on 3 January 2014 | |
Fumiyuki Beppu (Japanese: 別府史之; born 10 April 1983) is a Japanese professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team Trek Factory Racing.[3] His older brother is the cyclist Takumi Beppu.
Career
Team Discovery (2005–2007)
Beppu turned professional with Discovery Channel in 2005, and stayed with them until 2007.
In June 2006, Beppu was crowned the Japanese national champion in both the time trial and the road race.
On 28 September 2007, the Skil-Shimano professional cycling team announced that they had signed Beppu for a one year contract.
Skil-Shimano years (2008–2009)
On 26 July 2009, Beppu, riding for Skil-Shimano, finished 112th out of 180 riders in the 2009 Tour de France. He won the Combativity award in the final 21st flat stage from Montereau-Fault-Yonne to Paris Champs-Élysées. He also placed 8th in stage 3 and 7th in stage 19.[1] Along with Yukiya Arashiro, he became the first Japanese national to complete that race. (Kisso Kawamuro and Daisuke Imanaka had started but not finished the race before.[4])
RadioShack (2010–2011)
On 23 November 2009, it was announced Beppu had signed to ride with Team RadioShack for the 2010 season. Later it became clear that Beppu still had one year left on his contract with Skil-Shimano, so he had to buy himself out of the contract.[5] In February 2010 he finally started races with RadioShack at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne.[6]
GreenEdge (2012–2013)
In October 2011, it was announced that Beppu would ride for the new Australian based team GreenEDGE.[2] He participated in the men's road race at the 2012 Summer Olympics and finished in 22nd place.[7] After two years with the team, Beppu left at the end of the 2013 season to join Trek Factory Racing.[3]
Major achievements
- 2003
- 1st
National Under-23 Road Race Championships - 2004
- 1st Stage 1 Giro della Valle d'Aosta
- 1st Mountains classification, Ronde de l'Isard d'Ariege
- 2006
- 1st National Road Race Championships
- 1st National Time Trial Championships
- 2007
- 10th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
- 2008
- 1st Asian Road Race Championships
- 2009
Combativity award, Stage 21, Tour de France- 2010
- 4th Châteauroux Classic
- 10th Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
- 2011
- 1st National Road Race Championships
- 1st National Time Trial Championships
- 6th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
- 8th GP Ouest-France
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Tour de France 2009: Rider 192 – Fumiyuki Beppu". Letour.fr.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Beppu finally confirmed for GreenEdge". Cycling News (Future Publishing Limited). 5 October 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Beppu signs for new Trek WorldTour Team". Cyclingnews.com (Future plc). 8 August 2013. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
- ↑ Quénet, Jean-François. "Tour de France likely for two Japanese riders". Cyclingnews. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
- ↑ Richard Tyler (3 February 2010). "Skil-Shimano terminates contract with Beppu". Cyclingnews.com.
- ↑ {http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/beppu-gets-off-to-a-classic-start-with-radioshack}
- ↑ "Men's Road Race". London 2012. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
External links
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- Official website
- Fumiyuki Beppu profile at Cycling Archives
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