Matrix Powertag
{{short description|Japanese cycling team}}
{{Infobox cycling team
| name = Matrix Powertag
| image = Matrix Powertag at Tokyo 2020 Test Event P7219967.jpg
| caption = The team in 2019
| code = MTR
| registered = Japan
| founded = 2006
| disbanded =
| discipline = Road
| status = UCI Continental
| bicycles = Focus
| website = http://team-matrix.jp/
| generalmanager = Masahiro Yasuhara
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| season = 2006
2007–
| oldname = Matrix
Matrix Powertag
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{{Nihongo|Matrix Powertag|マトリックスパワータグ|Matorikkusu Pawātagu}} is a UCI Continental cycling team based in Japan.{{cite web|last1=Takagi|first1=Hideaki|script-title=ja:スペイン選手3人加入 10人体制のマトリックス|url=http://www.cyclowired.jp/?q=node/128763|website=Cyclowired|accessdate=12 October 2014|language=Japanese}} It was founded in 2006.{{cite web|title=新チーム マトリックスパワータグ・スペシャライズド の体制|url=http://www.cyclingtime.com/modules/ctnews/view.php?p=2039|website=Cyclingtime.com|accessdate=19 December 2014|language=Japanese}} For the 2014 season, the team added several riders from Spain, including Eduard Prades for the last part of the season.{{cite web|title=Eduard Prades ficha por el equipo japonés Matrix Powertag|url=http://www.esciclismo.com/ampliada.asp?Id=31150|website=Escyclismo.com|accessdate=19 December 2014|language=Spanish}} Masahiro Yasuhara is currently the manager of the team.{{cite web|title=ホセ・ビセンテ、吉田隼人ら加入で戦闘力増すマトリックス|url=http://www.cyclowired.jp/news/node/155876|website=Cyclowired|accessdate=23 May 2015|language=Japanese}}
Team roster
{{updated|10 June 2023.{{cite web|url=https://www.uci.org/team-details/17588|title=Matrix Powertag|work=UCI.org|publisher=Union Cycliste Internationale|accessdate=10 June 2023}}}}
{{Cycling squad start}}
{{Cycling squad rider|name=Georgios Bouglas|nat=GRE|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1990|11|17}}}}
{{Cycling squad rider|name=Tomoya Kano|nat=JPN|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1973|7|14}}}}
{{Cycling squad rider|name=Marino Kobayashi|nat=JPN|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1994|7|1}}}}
{{Cycling squad rider|name=Ryohei Komori|nat=JPN|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1988|9|26}}}}
{{Cycling squad rider|name=Francisco Mancebo|nat=ESP|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1976|3|9}}}}
{{Cycling squad mid}}
{{Cycling squad rider|name=Edgar Nieto|nat=ESP|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1986|7|28}}}}
{{Cycling squad rider|name=Junya Sano|nat=JPN|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1982|1|9}}}}
{{Cycling squad rider|name=Kenji Takubo|nat=JPN|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1995|9|11}}}}
{{Cycling squad rider|name=José Vicente Toribio|nat=ESP|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1985|12|22}}}}
{{Cycling squad rider|name=Daiki Yasuhara|nat=JPN|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1991|8|12}}}}
{{Cycling squad end}}
Major wins
{{palmares start}}
;2007
:Stage 2 Tour of Thailand, Masahiko Mifune
;2011
:Stage 2 Tour de Hokkaido, Takahiro Yamashita
;2012
:Stage 2 Tour of Małopolska, Mariusz Wiesiak
;2014
:Stage 5 Tour of Thailand, Sebastián Mora
;2015
:Stage 2 Tour de Ijen, Benjamín Prades
:Stage 4 Tour of Japan, Benjamín Prades
:Overall Tour de Kumano, Benjamín Prades
::Stage 2, Benjamín Prades
;2017
:Overall Tour de Kumano, José Vicente Toribio
::Young rider classification, Kenji Takubo
;2018
:Stage 3 Tour de Kumano, Junya Sano
;2019
:Points classification Vuelta al Táchira, Orluis Aular
::Stage 3, Orluis Aular
:Overall Ronda Pilipinas, Francisco Mancebo
::Stage 1, Francisco Mancebo
:Overall Tour de Kumano, Orluis Aular
::Points classification, Orluis Aular
::Stage 1, Orluis Aular
;2021
:Stage 2 Tour of Japan, José Vicente Toribio
:Oita Urban Classic, Francisco Mancebo
;2022
::Points classification, Leonel Quintero
::Mountains classification, Marino Kobayashi
:Stage 2 Tour de Kumano, Leonel Quintero
;2023
:Stage 2 Tour of Japan, Georgios Bouglas
{{palmares end}}
References
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External links
- {{official website}}
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Category:UCI Continental Teams (Asia)
Category:Cycling teams established in 2006