Team Bridgestone Cycling Explained

Team Bridgestone Cycling
Code:	BGT
Registered:	Japan
Website:	http://www.anchor-bikes.com/race/blog/
Generalmanager:	Junichi Shibuya
Teammanager:	Keisuke Miyazaki
Status:	Continental
Season:	2008–2009 2010–2013 2014–2017 2018–
Oldname:	Team Bridgestone Anchor Bridgestone Anchor Bridgestone Anchor Cycling Team Team Bridgestone Cycling

Team Bridgestone Cycling 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] 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]

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

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

Japanese National Road Race Championships, Sho Hatsuyama

Japanese National Time Trial Championships, Ryota Nishizono

2017

Stage 3 Tour de Kumano, Damien Monier

Japanese National Time Trial Championships, Ryota Nishizono

Stage 1 Tour de Hokkaido, Ryu Suzuki

2018

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

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

Notes and References

Web site: メンバー大刷新のブリヂストン・アンカー. Cyclowired. 2 February 2013.
Web site: Damien Monier signe chez Bridgestone-Anchor . VeloRacingNews . 2 February 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130926073151/http://www.veloracingnews.com/article-damien-monier-chez-bridgestone-anchor-112927666.html . 26 September 2013 .
Web site: https://cyclist.sanspo.com/376556 . ja: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 . ja . cyclist.sanspo.com . 21 December 2017 . 10 April 2018.