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Osaka Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Osaka Prefecture has a population of 8,778,035 () and has a geographic area of . Osaka Prefecture borders Hyōgo Prefecture to the northwest, Kyoto Prefecture ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

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Japanese National Road Race Championships The Japanese National Road Race Championships are conducted every year under the auspices of the Japan Cycling Federation. Men Elite U23 Women See also *Japanese National Time Trial Championships The Japanese National Time Trial Champions ...

(1997, 2000)

Japanese National Time Trial Championships The Japanese National Time Trial Championships are conducted every year under the auspices of the Japan Cycling Federation. The record is held by Kazuya Okazaki with 4 wins. Multiple winners (Men) Men Elite U23 Women Elite See also * Ja ...

(1999, 2000)
Japan Cup (1997) , medaltemplates = is a Japanese racing cyclist, who last rode for Japanese amateur team Abenova. He turned professional with

Shimano Racing is a Japanese UCI Continental cycling team established in 2009. It traces its history back to 1973. Team roster Major wins ;2009 :Stage 4 Tour de Taiwan, Shinri Suzuki :Stage 6 Tour de Hokkaido, Shinri Suzuki ;2010 :Stage 4 Tour ...

, the team operated by Shimano, after graduating from Osaka Institute of Technology, but soon transferred to Italian teams. He won the Japan Cup in 1997 and is still the only Japanese to win that important race. He became Japanese national champion in the road race in 1997 and 2000, and in the individual time trial in 1999 and 2000. Abe represented Japan in the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...

and won a bronze medal in the

2006 Asian Games 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...

in the team time trial.

Major results

;1996 : 1st Stage 6 Tour de Pologne ;1997 : 1st MaillotJapón

Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Japan Cup ;1998 : 7th Time trial,

Asian Games The Asian Games, also known as Asiad, is a continental multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia. The Games were regulated by the Asian Games Federation (AGF) from the first Games in New Delhi, India, until t ...

;1999 : 1st MaillotJapón

Time trial, National Road Championships ;2000 : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotJapón

Road race ::1st MaillotJapón

Time trial ;2001 : 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships ;2002 : 4th Overall

Tour of China The Tour of China is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in China since 1995. The race is sanctioned by the International Cycling Union (UCI) as a 2.1 category race as part of the UCI Asia Tour The UCI Continental Circuits ...

;2003 : 1st Overall

;2004 : 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships ;2006 : 3rd Team time trial,

: 3rd Overall

Tour of Hainan The Tour of Hainan is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Hainan Province, China. The race consists of nine stages and is part of the UCI Asia Tour. The event was first held in 2006. It was made a UCI 2.1 race from 2007 a ...

: 5th Overall

Tour de Korea The Tour de Korea is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in South Korea since 2000 as part of the UCI Asia Tour. It was rated by the International Cycling Union (UCI) as a 2.2 category race between 2005 and 2013, then promot ...

;2007 : 9th Overall Jelajah Malaysia ;2008 : 10th Overall Tour de Taiwan ;2009 : 10th Time trial, National Road Championships

References

External links

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Team Matrix Powertag official site
(Japanese) {{DEFAULTSORT:Abe, Yoshiyuki 1969 births Living people Japanese male cyclists Sportspeople from Osaka Prefecture Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for Japan Asian Games medalists in cycling Cyclists at the 1994 Asian Games Cyclists at the 1998 Asian Games Cyclists at the 2006 Asian Games Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan