is a Japanese former professional

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, who rode professionally between 2016 and 2024 for seven different teams. Her thirteen professional victories came entirely at the Japanese national road championships – seven

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titles and six

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titles – while she also won three medals at the

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. Yonamine only switched from tennis to cycling when in college at the

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, 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

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Major results

Source: ;2012 : National Road Championships ::2nd Road race ::2nd

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;2013 : National Road Championships ::1st Road race ::1st

: 2nd National Cyclo-cross Championships : 8th Road race, Asian Road Championships ;2014 : 1st Cross-country, National Mountain Bike Championships : 2nd Silver medal asia

Time trial, Asian Road Championships : National Road Championships ::2nd Road race ::2nd

;2015 : National Road Championships ::1st

::2nd Road race ;2016 : National Road Championships ::1st Road race ::1st

: 4th Road race, Asian Road Championships : 5th Overall

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: 7th Overall

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: 7th Overall

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: 7th Chrono des Nations : 9th Overall

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;2017 : National Road Championships ::1st Road race ::1st

Combativity award Stage 2, Holland Ladies Tour ;2018 : National Road Championships ::1st Road race ::1st

::2nd

::3rd

Road race ;2019 : National Road Championships ::1st Road race ::1st

: 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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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Yonamine, Eri 1991 births Living people Japanese female cyclists Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for Japan Asian Games silver medalists in cycling Asian Games bronze medalists in cycling Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games Medalists at the 2022 Asian Games Cyclists at the 2018 Asian Games Cyclists at the 2022 Asian Games Asian Games silver medalists for Japan Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan 21st-century Japanese sportswomen Sportspeople from Osaka Cyclists from Osaka Prefecture