Mayuko Hagiwara

is a Japanese racing cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI Women's Continental Team .

Career Born in Maebashi, Hagiwara graduated from the National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Kanoya and joined the cycling team sponsored by the Japanese bicycle store Cycle Base Asahi. She won the Japanese National Road Race Championships three years in a row between 2010 and 2012 and the Japanese National Time Trial Championships five times in a row between 2008 and 2012. She represented Japan in cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's individual road race. In November 2012, it was announced that Hagiwara had signed to ride with the British cycling team for the 2013 season. She lost her national road race and time trial crowns to Eri Yonamine in 2013, but won both titles again in 2014. In 2015, she lost the time trial title to Yonamine, but was again crowned road race champion. That year also saw her become the first Japanese to win a stage in a grand tour, as she took victory in stage 6 of the Giro d'Italia Femminile.

Major results

2004 Asian Junior Road Championships

2005

2nd Time trial, National Road Championships 2006

2nd Road race, National Road Championships World University Cycling Championship 9th Road race 10th Time trial 2008 National Road Championships

3rd Road race

2009

4th Road race, East Asian Games 2010

National Road Championships

2011 National Road Championships

6th Overall Tour de Bretagne Féminin 2012 National Road Championships

2nd Overall Tour of Thailand 2013 1st Championnat de Wallonie National Road Championships 2nd Time trial 3rd Road race 2014 National Road Championships

2015 National Road Championships

2nd Time trial 1st Stage 6 Giro d'Italia Femminile Asian Road Championships

10th Road race 3rd Gooik–Geraardsbergen–Gooik 3rd Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan Dames 5th Overall Tour de Bretagne Féminin 1st Stage 3 2016 Asian Road Championships

National Road Championships 2nd Road race 3rd Time trial 2017 3rd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race