is a Japanese former professional racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2016 and 2024 for seven different teams. Her thirteen professional victories came entirely at the Japanese national road championships â seven Japanese National Road Race Championships titles and six Japanese National Time Trial Championships titles â while she also won three medals at the Asian Games.
Yonamine only switched from tennis to cycling when in college at the University of Tsukuba, and quickly achieved success in Japan, coming in second in both the Japanese National Road Race Championships and the Japanese National Time Trial Championships in 2012 at age 21. The next year, she won both the national road race and time trial championships. In the spring of 2016, she signed a short-term contract with the American UCI team , and later repeated her victory in the national time trial. Yonamine was selected to represent Japan in the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Major results
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2012
National Road Championships
:2nd Road race
:2nd Time trial
2013
National Road Championships
:1st Road race
:1st Time trial
2nd National Cyclo-cross Championships
8th Road race, Asian Road Championships
2014
1st Cross-country, National Mountain Bike Championships
2nd Time trial, Asian Road Championships
National Road Championships
:2nd Road race
:2nd Time trial
2015
National Road Championships
:1st Time trial
:2nd Road race
2016
National Road Championships
:1st Road race
:1st Time trial
4th Road race, Asian Road Championships
5th Overall Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche
7th Overall Joe Martin Stage Race
7th Overall Trophée d'Or Féminin
7th Chrono des Nations
9th Overall Tour of the Gila
2017
National Road Championships
:1st Road race
:1st Time trial
Combativity award Stage 2, Holland Ladies Tour
2018
National Road Championships
:1st Road race
:1st Time trial
Asian Games
:2nd Time trial
:3rd Road race
2019
National Road Championships
:1st Road race
:1st Time trial
6th Overall Women's Tour of Scotland
2022
2nd Road race, National Road Championships
2nd Overall
2023
1st Road race, National Road Championships
2024
1st Road race, National Road Championships
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