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Japanese world champions reveal their rainbow jerseys
Japan’s Mina Sato and Kento Yamasaki, winners of the women’s and men’s keirin at the 2024 UCI world championships, have revealed their customised rainbow jerseys in posts on team Rakuten K Dreams’s X feed. The ‘special new practice jerseys’ seem quite normal from the front, albeit without a UCI logo. But things are quite different…
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Double Dutch delight at European track champs
Steffie wins a tight women’s final, Harrie left them far behind
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World record for van de Wouw in women’s kilo
We can be heroes, just for one day… Dutch rider beats time set by Andrews the day before
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Keirin will feature as track cycling returns to South East Asian Games
Thailand will host the 2025 South East Asian Games in December – and it has been confirmed that track cycling will return to the event programme for the first time since 2017, when Azizulhasni Awang carried the rainbow stripes to victory in Kuala Lumpur. Keirin will be one of four events for men, according to…
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New Zealand pair claim Oceania continental titles
Ellesse Andrews and Sam Dakin were both unbeatable in today’s keirin competition at the Oceania Cycling Confederation championships. Both riders won all their races on their way to claim their continental titles at the Anna Meares Velodrome in Brisbane, Australia. In the women’s final, the New Zealand trio of Andrews, Olivia King and Shaane Fulton…
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Keirin confirmed for Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games
Glasgow 2026 will feature men’s and women’s keirin competitions, as part of the biggest track cycling programme ever seen at a Commonwealth Games. Sprinters will be particularly pleased by the event selection, announced by the Glasgow 2026 Organising Company: it also includes team sprint, individual sprint and the kilo for both men and women. Organisers…
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Japanese keirin to trial international style racing
Japan’s governing body for keirin is preparing a modest trial of men’s racing under international rules, hoping to make the sport more accessible to new audiences. Men’s racing in Japan is based on collaboration in ‘lines’: riders from the same region work together to manage the race. In his book War On Wheels, Justin McCurry…
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Fans in UK & Ireland face immediate 4x price-hike to watch live cycling
Cycling fans in the UK and Ireland have reacted angrily to news that Warner Bros Discovery is to terminate the Eurosport brand and channels in those territories, putting its live cycling coverage behind a paywall at more than four times the previous price. Subscribers to the Discovery+ service received an email this morning, announcing the…
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Japan’s keirin incomes up 35% in 3 years, but gender gap persists
The average winnings for a Japanese keirin professional have grown by over a third in just three years, according to data published by MoreCadence. Total prize money in 2024 was 35.3 billion yen (US$ 223.6 million), shared among 2394 male and female riders. That works out to an average annual income of 14.6 million yen,…
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DerbyWheel hopeful smashes a world record while she waits
Whilst keirin racers wait patiently for fresh news from DerbyWheel, one intended participant has filled her time by claiming a new world record. Two-time Canadian keirin champion Lizanne Wilmot, now living in Australia, claimed the women’s Guinness World Record for 1 kilometre on a ‘penny farthing’ bicycle from a flying start, during a multisport carnival…
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Charting Japanese keirin’s top annual money-earners
Yusaku Kosho‘s victory in the 2024 Keirin Grand Prix took his total earnings for the calendar year to over 383 million yen (US$ 2.4 million). It was the highest year-end total in history, and was the second time in three years that a rider had earned more than 300 million yen. It focuses attention once…
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Kosho smashes keirin earnings record with second Grand Prix success
Former BMX racer Yusaku Kosho won his second Keirin Grand Prix, and with it a prize of 140 million yen – almost US$ 900,000 – in Japan’s traditional end-of-year highlight event. The 33-year-old was brought to the front by 2020 world silver medallist Yuta Wakimoto as the bell began to ring. As they entered the…
