Team Bridgestone Cycling

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Team Bridgestone Cycling
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Team information
UCI codeBGT
RegisteredJapan
Founded2008 (2008)
Discipline(s)
StatusContinental
Website Team home page
Key personnel
General managerJunichi 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

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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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

As of 17 February 2022. [4]
RiderDate of birth
Flag of Japan.svg  Ryo Chikatani  (JPN) (1992-04-17) 17 April 1992 (age 30)
Flag of Japan.svg  Eiya Hashimoto  (JPN) (1993-12-15) 15 December 1993 (age 29)
Flag of Japan.svg  Shunsuke Imamura  (JPN) (1998-02-14) 14 February 1998 (age 25)
Flag of Japan.svg  Shōki Kawano  (JPN) (2000-03-26) 26 March 2000 (age 22)
Flag of Japan.svg  Naoki Kojima  (JPN) (2000-11-01) 1 November 2000 (age 22)
RiderDate of birth
Flag of Japan.svg  Kazushige Kuboki  (JPN) (1989-06-06) 6 June 1989 (age 33)
Flag of Japan.svg  Shoi Matsuda  (JPN) (1999-09-13) 13 September 1999 (age 23)
Flag of Japan.svg  Toki Sawada  (JPN) (1994-01-12) 12 January 1994 (age 29)
Flag of Japan.svg  Suguru Tokuda  (JPN) (1994-05-31) 31 May 1994 (age 28)
Flag of Japan.svg  Tetsuo Yamamoto  (JPN) (2000-03-17) 17 March 2000 (age 22)

Major wins

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
Flag of Japan.svg  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
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan Japanese National Road Race Championships, Sho Hatsuyama
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan Japanese National Time Trial Championships, Ryota Nishizono
2017
Stage 3 Tour de Kumano, Damien Monier
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan Japanese National Time Trial Championships, Ryota Nishizono
Stage 1 Tour de Hokkaido, Ryu Suzuki
2018
Flag of Japan.svg  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

National champions

2012
MaillotJapon.PNG Japan Time Trial, Ryota Nishizono
2016
MaillotJapon.PNG Japan Road Race, Sho Hatsuyama
MaillotJapon.PNG Japan Time Trial, Ryota Nishizono
2017
MaillotJapon.PNG Japan Time Trial, Ryota Nishizono
2018
MaillotJapon.PNG Japan Time Trial, Kazushige Kuboki

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References

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  2. "Damien Monier signe chez Bridgestone-Anchor". VeloRacingNews. Archived from the original on 26 September 2013. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
  3. 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.
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