Kohei Yamamoto

There's something quietly compelling about a competitive cyclist coming out of Makubetsu, a small inland town deep in Hokkaido's Tokachi region — not exactly where you picture a racing scene flourishing. Cycling in Japan doesn't get the mainstream spotlight that baseball or swimming does, which means anyone who sticks with it long enough to register on a national level had to really want it, probably from a pretty young age with not a lot of external validation pushing them along. Born in 1985, Yamamoto came up in a generation that had to seek out their niche rather than have it handed to them, and there's something I find genuinely admirable about that kind of self-directed persistence. The details of his career are sparse in the public record, but the fact that he kept going in a low-profile sport in a low-profile corner of Japan says more about his character than any press release would.

Kohei Yamamoto is a Japanese professional cyclist born on August 20, 1985, in Makubetsu, Hokkaido. He is one of the notable competitive cyclists to emerge from Hokkaido, a region not traditionally associated with the sport. Further details about his career history and agency affiliation are not publicly available.

Name (English)

Kohei Yamamoto

Name (Japanese)

山本幸平

Reading

やまもと こうへい

Born

August 20, 1985 (age 40)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Ox

Origin

Makubetsu, Hokkaido, Japan

Occupation

Cyclist

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E6%9C%AC%E5%B9%B8%E5%B9%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3079146

Tags

• From Hokkaido
• Cyclist

Last updated

2026-06-02

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