Team Bridgestone Cycling (UCI team code: BGT) is a continental cycling team based in Japan that participates in UCI Continental Circuits races.
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| Team information | |
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| UCI code | BGT |
| Registered | Japan |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Discipline(s) | |
| Status | Continental |
| Website | Team home page |
| Key personnel | |
| General manager | Junichi Shibuya |
| Team manager(s) | Keisuke Miyazaki |
| Team name history | |
2008–2009 2010–2013 2014–2017 2018– | Team Bridgestone Anchor Bridgestone Anchor Bridgestone Anchor Cycling Team Team Bridgestone Cycling |
The team's history can be traced back to 1964, but its current incarnation as the UCI registered road-racing team Team Bridgestone-Anchor started in 2008.[citation needed] For the 2012 season the team made a major change, adding several non-Japanese riders and running half their races outside Japan.[1] For 2013, they signed Damien Monier, a French stage winner at the Giro d'Italia.[2] During this period another Frenchman Thomas Lebas was the team leader for 5 years.
In 2018, the team changed its name to Team Bridgestone Cycling, with an all-Japanese team roster.[3]
Team roster
edit- As of 17 February 2022.[4]
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Major wins
edit- 2008
- Stage 8a Tour de Martinique, Masamichi Yamamoto
- 2009
- Stage 1 Jelajah Malaysia, Makoto Iijima
- Overall Tour de Okinawa, Kenji Itami
- Stage 2, Kenji Itami
- 2010
- Stage 2 Tour de Taiwan, Miyataka Shimizu
- Overall Tour de Martinique, Miyataka Shimizu
- Stage 7, Miyataka Shimizu
- Overall Tour de Hokkaido, Miyataka Shimizu
- Stage 2, Miyataka Shimizu
- 2011
- Stage 2 Tour of the Philippines, Kazuo Inoue
- 2012
- Japan Japanese National Time Trial Championships, Ryota Nishizono
- 2013
- Tsugaike Kogen, Damien Monier
- Overall Tour de Hokkaido, Thomas Lebas
- Stage 2, Thomas Lebas
- Tour de Okinawa, Sho Hatsuyama
- 2014
- Overall Tour International de Sétif, Thomas Lebas
- Stage 4 Tour Cycliste International de la Guadeloupe, Thomas Lebas
- Stage 2 Tour de Constantine, Thomas Lebas
- Stage 3 Tour de Constantine, Damien Monier
- 2015
- Overall Tour de Filipinas, Thomas Lebas
- Stage 1 Tour of Thailand, Kohei Uchima
- Stage 9 Tour de Singkarak. Sho Hatsuyama
- 2016
- Japan Japanese National Road Race Championships, Sho Hatsuyama
- Japan Japanese National Time Trial Championships, Ryota Nishizono
- 2017
- Stage 3 Tour de Kumano, Damien Monier
- Japan Japanese National Time Trial Championships, Ryota Nishizono
- Stage 1 Tour de Hokkaido, Ryu Suzuki
- 2018
- Japan Japanese National Time Trial Championships, Kazushige Kuboki
- 2019
- Stage 8 Tour of Japan, Kazushige Kuboki
- Prologue Tour de Kumano, Keitaro Sawada
- 2022
- Stage 1 & 3 Tour de Hokkaido, Shunsuke Imamura
- 2023
- Stage 8 Tour of Japan, Kazushige Kuboki
- Points classification Tour de Kyushu, Naoki Kojima
- Stage 1, Naoki Kojima
National champions
edit- 2012
- Japan Time Trial, Ryota Nishizono
- 2016
- Japan Road Race, Sho Hatsuyama
- Japan Time Trial, Ryota Nishizono
- 2017
- Japan Time Trial, Ryota Nishizono
- 2018
- Japan Time Trial, Kazushige Kuboki
References
edit- ^ "メンバー大刷新のブリヂストン・アンカー". Cyclowired. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
- ^ "Damien Monier signe chez Bridgestone-Anchor". VeloRacingNews. Archived from the original on 26 September 2013. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
- ^ 新生「チーム ブリヂストンサイクリング」が発足 東京五輪自転車競技開催地の静岡県を拠点に (in Japanese). cyclist.sanspo.com. 21 December 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
- ^ "Team Bridgestone Cycling". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
