Bridgestone–Anchor

Team Bridgestone Cycling
Team information
UCI code BGT
Registered Japan
Founded 2008 (2008)
Discipline Road, Track, MTB, Paracycling
Status Continental
Website Team home page
Key personnel
General manager Makoto Iijima
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.

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. 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] In 2018, the team changed its name to Team Bridgestone Cycling, with all-Japanese team roster.[3]

Team roster

Rider Date of birth
 Ryo Chikatani (JPN) (1992-04-17) 17 April 1992
 Hiroaki Harada (JPN) (1993-08-11) 11 August 1993
 Eiya Hashimoto (JPN) (1993-12-15) 15 December 1993
 Takaaki Hori (JPN) (1992-07-01) 1 July 1992
 Shogo Ichimaru (JPN) (1992-01-04) 4 January 1992
Rider Date of birth
 Shunsuke Imamura (JPN) (1998-02-14) 14 February 1998
 Manabu Ishibashi (JPN) (1992-11-30) 30 November 1992
 Kazushige Kuboki (JPN) (1989-06-06) 6 June 1989
 Jin Okubo (JPN) (1988-10-08) 8 October 1988
 Keitaro Sawada (JPN) (1998-01-21) 21 January 1998

Major wins

National champions

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

  1. ↑ "メンバー大刷新のブリヂストン・アンカー". Cyclowired. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
  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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