Eri Yonamine

Eri Yonamine (與那嶺恵理, Yonamine Eri, born 25 April 1991) is a Japanese racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Alé BTC Ljubljana.[2]

Eri Yonamine

Personal information
Full name	Eri Yonamine Japanese: (與那嶺恵理)
Born	(1991-04-25) 25 April 1991 Osaka, Japan
Team information
Current team	Alé BTC Ljubljana
Discipline	Road Cyclo-cross Mountain biking
Role	Rider
Amateur team
2013	Team Forza
Professional teams
2016	Hagens Berman–Supermint
2016–2017	Poitou–Charentes.Futuroscope.86
2018	Wiggle High5
2019–	Alé–Cipollini[1]
Major wins
One day races & Classics National Road Race Championships (2013, 2016–2019) National Time Trial Championships (2013, 2015–2019)

Yonamine only switched from tennis to cycling when in college at Tsukuba University, 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.[3][4] The next year, she won both the national road race and time trial championships.[5][6] In the spring of 2016, she signed a short-term contract with the American UCI team Hagens Berman–Supermint,[7] and later repeated her victory in the national time trial.[8] Yonamine was selected to represent Japan in the 2016 Summer Olympics.[9]