Sakie Tsukuda

Sakie Tsukuda (佃 咲江, Tsukuda Sakie, born October 31, 1985 in Bihoro, Hokkaidō) is a Japanese amateur track cyclist.[1] She mounted a spirited challenge over South Africa's Tracey van Niekerk for the women's sprint gold medal at the 2007 UCI B World Championships in Cape Town, and later represented Japan at the 2008 Summer Olympics.[2]

Sakie Tsukuda

Personal information
Full name	Sakie Tsukuda
Born	(1985-10-31) 31 October 1985 Bihoro, Hokkaidō, Japan
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	68 kg (150 lb)
Team information
Discipline	Track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter
Medal record Women's track cycling Representing  Japan Asian Championships 2006 Kuala Lumpur Keirin

Tsukuda qualified for her first Japanese squad, as a 22-year-old, in the women's sprint at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by receiving a berth from the UCI "B" World Championships in Cape Town, South Africa.[2] After grabbing the twelfth and final seed in 12.134 (an average speed of 59.337 km/h) on the morning prelims, Tsukuda lost her first round match-up to Great Britain's top medal favorite Victoria Pendleton in a spectacular fashion, finished third in her repechage heat behind Belarus' Natallia Tsylinskaya and Cuba's Lisandra Guerra, and then placed twelfth overall in a single four-rider 200 m race to round out the field.[3][4][5]