International Keirin comes to Manchester
Five specialist Keirin racing stars from Japan
will be amongst the contestants in the JKA (Japanese Keirin Association)
Invitation Keirin race in Manchester on Sunday 25th February.
Kazuya Narita,
Masaki Inoue, Kazunari Watanabe, Shinichi Ota and Keiichiro Yaguchi all travel
from Japan where the event is watched by millions of fans. The spectacular JKA
Keirin at the Manchester Velodrome will be the last event on the final day of
the World Cup 23rd – 25th February which also determines the overall champion
nation.
Coming to do battle in Manchester Kazunari Watanabe, Photo Copyright: www.aokei.co.jp
Watanabe is the inform rider following his victory in the team
sprint event at the Asia Games in December. Inoe has taken an incredible 108
victories from racing on the busy Keirin circuit in Japan and has finished in
the top three in nearly 60% of all his races.
Ota is the most experienced rider
who won the Keirin Grand Prix in Japan and the men’s kilometre time trial at the
Asian games in 1999. The 31-year-old has amazingly ridden in 926 Keirin races at
home and finished in the top three in over half of those.
The five Japanese sprinters will battle for the first prize of €15,000 against an international field including the likes of Chris Hoy, Josiah Ng and Craig MacLean
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