Editing Keirin (section)

===Champions from Japan===
{{nihongo|[[Koichi Nakano]]|中野 浩一|Nakano Kōichi}} was one of the first Japanese keirin athletes to compete outside of his native country, Nakano holds the best matched sprint record as a track cyclist at the [[UCI Track World Championships]] with a record of ten consecutive professional [[Sprint (cycling)|Sprint]] [[UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's sprint|World Track Cycling Championship]] wins from 1977 to 1986 against mostly western European pro track cyclists, although he never won the Keirin World Championship. At that time, many leading sprint riders were from the Eastern bloc countries and competed in separate "amateur" events.

[[Katsuaki Matsumoto]] (1928-2021) is the all-time professional keirin athlete with the most wins - 1341 - over his career (he retired in 1981 at the age of 53).