Takashi Miyazawa

Takashi Miyazawa
Personal information
Miyazawa at the 2012 Tour Down Under.
Full name	Takashi Miyazawa
Born	(1978-02-27) 27 February 1978 Japan
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	60 kg (130 lb; 9.4 st)
Team information
Current team	Lemonade Bellmare
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider (retired) Team manager
Rider type	Sprinter
Professional team(s)
2003	Team Bridgestone Anchor
2005	Team Bridgestone Anchor
2006	Cycle Racing Team Vang
2007	Nippo Corporation
2008	Meitan Honpo-GDR
2009	Amica Chips
2009	EQA-Meitan Honpo
2010	CDC-Cavaliere
2011	Farnese Vini-Neri Sottoli
2012–2013	Team Saxo Bank^[1]
2014	Vini Fantini-Nippo^[2]
Managerial team(s)
2015–	Lemonade Bellmare
Major wins
National Road Race Championships (2010) Asian Cycling Championship (2007) Tour de Hokkaido (2008, 2009)
Infobox last updated on 22 February 2015

Takashi Miyazawa (宮澤崇史 , Miyazawa Takashi) (born 27 February 1978, in Nagano City) is a Japanese former professional racing cyclist, who competed as a professional between 2003 and 2014.

Miyazawa had a varied early career, riding cyclocross at first,^[3] then participating on various teams in Japan, Italy, and France, and even riding independently at times. He once quit road cycling to participate in the keirin school. Finally settling on road cycling with Bridgestone Anchor in 2005, Miyazawa quickly established himself as one of Japan's top sprinters, reaching the podium not only in Japan, but in Asia and Europe as well. He was Asian champion in 2007 and represented Japan in the 2008 Summer Olympics. He was hired by the UCI Professional Continental team Amica Chips-Knauf in 2009 but returned to his Japanese team when Amica Chips floundered due to financial difficulties. Joining Team Nippo in 2010, he won the Japanese national championship that year. On 28 October 2010, it was announced that Miyazawa had signed to ride with the new Italian Pro Continental team, Farnese Vini-Neri Sottoli, for the 2011 season.^[4] On 21 October 2011, it was announced that Miyazawa signed a one-year contract with UCI World Tour team Team Saxo Bank for the 2012 season.^[1]

For the 2014 season, Miyazawa rejoined Vini Fantini-Nippo,^[2] but announced his retirement at the end of that season.^[5] After his retirement, he assumed the post of manager of the Lemonade Bellmare cycling team.^[6]