KYOTO (Kyodo) After a 400-meter bicycle sprint, a 26-year-old woman caught up with a man also on a bicycle who had snatched her bag, Kyoto police said Monday.

The alleged bag-snatcher, Yugo Komaki, 24, owned up to the 11:40 p.m. mugging Sunday in Kamigyo Ward, police said.

According to investigators, the woman, an amateur tennis player, was walking with her bicycle when Komaki approached on his bike. The man snatched her bag, containing about ¥6,000, from the front basket of her bicycle, the police said.

Although Komaki tried to ride away, the woman dashed about 400 meters on her bicycle and eventually caught him, the police said, adding she dialed 110 during the ride.