Yukihiro Doi

Yukihiro Doi

Personal information
Full name Yukihiro Doi
Born (1983-09-18) 18 September 1983
Japan
Height 1.69 m (5 ft 6 1⁄2 in)
Weight 58 kg (128 lb; 9.1 st)
Team information
Current team Matrix Powertag
Discipline Road
Professional team(s)
2004 Shimano Racing
2005–2012 Skil–Shimano
2013–2015 Team Ukyo[1]
2016– Matrix Powertag
Major wins
National Road Race Championships (2012)

Yukihiro Doi (土井 雪広, Doi Yukihiro, born 18 September 1983, in Yamagata Prefecture) is a Japanese professional racing cyclist, currently riding for Matrix Powertag. After graduating from Hosei University, he joined the Shimano Racing team in 2004. Since then, he has mostly raced abroad, finishing second in the Tour of Siam (2007), eighth in the Tour de Langkawi (2007), fifth in the Tour de Hokkaido (2007), and sixth in the Tour of Turkey (2010). In 2011, he became the first Japanese to compete in the Vuelta a España,[2] finishing in 150th place. In 2012, he won the Japanese National Road Race Championships.[3] In November 2012, it was announced that in 2013 he would be riding for Team Ukyo, a cycling team run by the racing driver Ukyo Katayama.[1]

Career highlights

References

  1. 1 2 Tsuji, Kei. "Doi Yukihiro ga Chīmu Ukyo e no iseki". Cyclowired. Retrieved 3 November 2012.
  2. ↑ Quénet, Jean-François. "Vuelta CT Interview with Yukihiro Doi". Cyclingtime.com. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  3. ↑ "Zen Nihon rōdo erīto". Cyclowired. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
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