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Born | Saitama, Japan | 1 September 1988
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Role | Rider |
Amateur team | |
2010–2012 | Team Eurasia–Musseuw Bikes |
Professional teams | |
2008–2009 | Trek–Marco Polo |
2012–2013 | Colba–Superano Ham |
2014–2015 | Veranclassic–Doltcini |
Yu Takenouchi (竹之内 悠, Takenouchi Yū, born 1 September 1988) is a Japanese cyclist who competes in both cyclo-cross and road cycling. He won the Japanese national cyclo-cross championship five times in a row from 2011 to 2015.[1] He represented his nation in the men's elite event at the 2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Heusden-Zolder.[2][3] In 2015, he was a member of the Belgian team Veranclassic–Ekoi.