Eri Yonamine

Eri Yonamine is the kind of athlete who makes you stop and think, wait, how is she doing this? She grew up in Osaka, studied at the University of Tsukuba, and then just went ahead and built a legitimate professional road cycling career on the European circuit — a world that barely has any Japanese presence, let alone Japanese women competing at a real level. Road cycling is brutally hard even for riders who grew up surrounded by the sport, and she came at it from the outside and ground her way in anyway. There's something very Taurus about that, honestly — not flashy, just stubbornly persistent until the results speak for themselves. At 160 cm she's racing courses that eat up riders of every size, and the fact that she's been at it long enough to build a real body of work through her early thirties says everything. One of those athletes I root for quietly but genuinely.

Eri Yonamine is a Japanese professional road cyclist born on April 25, 1991, in Osaka Prefecture. She graduated from the University of Tsukuba before building a career competing in road racing at the European level. Standing 160 cm tall, she is recognized as one of Japan's pioneering female cyclists on the international stage.

Name (English)

Eri Yonamine

Name (Japanese)

與那嶺恵理

Reading

よなみね えり

Born

April 25, 1991 (age 35)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Goat (未)

Origin

Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Height

160 cm

Occupation

Cyclist

University

University of Tsukuba

Motto

Private

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• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%88%87%E9%82%A3%E5%B6%BA%E6%81%B5%E7%90%86

Tags

• From Osaka Prefecture
• Cyclist

Last updated

2026-06-02

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