Tomoyoshi Koyama

Tomoyoshi Koyama, known as Tommy, is a Japanese Grand Prix motorcycle racer born on 19 March 1983 in Sagamihara, Kanagawa. After wild card Grand Prix appearances from 2000, the year he won the MFJ All Japan Road Race GP125 championship, he joined the world championship full time in 2005 with Ajo Motorsport and was best rookie of the season. He moved to KTM in 2007 and scored his first victory at the 2007 Catalan Grand Prix, then rode for the Loncin team in 2009 and an Aprilia for Racing Team Germany in 2010, when he finished eighth in the championship with a best placing of second at the German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring. He later raced in the Spanish Moto2 championship, finishing third in 2011, took part in several Moto2 Grand Prix races as a replacement and wild card, and is listed as competing in the ST600 class of the All Japan Road Race Championship on a Honda CBR600RR.