Team Bridgestone Cycling

{{short description|Japanese cycling team}}

{{Infobox cycling team

| name = Team Bridgestone Cycling

| image = 250px

| code = BGT

| registered = Japan

| founded = {{start date|2008}}

| disbanded =

| website = http://www.anchor-bikes.com/race/blog/

| generalmanager = Junichi Shibuya

| teammanager = Keisuke Miyazaki

| discipline = {{ubl|Road|Track|Mountain biking|Para-cycling}}

| 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 ({{UCI 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.{{Citation needed|date=April 2018}} For the 2012 season the team made a major change, adding several non-Japanese riders and running half their races outside Japan.{{cite web|title=メンバー大刷新のブリヂストン・アンカー|url=http://www.cyclowired.jp/?q=node/74398|work=Cyclowired|accessdate=2 February 2013}} For 2013, they signed Damien Monier, a French stage winner at the Giro d'Italia.{{cite web|title=Damien Monier signe chez Bridgestone-Anchor |url=http://www.veloracingnews.com/article-damien-monier-chez-bridgestone-anchor-112927666.html |work=VeloRacingNews |accessdate=2 February 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926073151/http://www.veloracingnews.com/article-damien-monier-chez-bridgestone-anchor-112927666.html |archivedate=26 September 2013 }} 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.{{cite web |url=https://cyclist.sanspo.com/376556 |script-title=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 |language=ja |publisher=cyclist.sanspo.com |date=21 December 2017 |accessdate=10 April 2018}}

Team roster

{{Updated|17 February 2022.{{cite web|url=https://www.uci.org/team-details/17343|title=Team Bridgestone Cycling|work=UCI.org|publisher=Union Cycliste Internationale|accessdate=17 February 2022}}}}

{{Cycling squad start}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Ryo Chikatani|nat=JPN|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1992|4|17}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Eiya Hashimoto|nat=JPN|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1993|12|15}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Shunsuke Imamura|nat=JPN|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1998|2|14}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Shōki Kawano|nat=JPN|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|2000|3|26}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Naoki Kojima|nat=JPN|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|2000|11|1}}}}

{{Cycling squad mid}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Kazushige Kuboki|nat=JPN|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1989|6|6}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Shoi Matsuda|nat=JPN|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1999|9|13}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Toki Sawada|nat=JPN|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1994|1|12}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Suguru Tokuda|nat=JPN|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1994|5|31}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Tetsuo Yamamoto|nat=JPN|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|2000|3|17}}}}

{{Cycling squad end}}

Major wins

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;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

:{{JPN}} 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

:{{JPN}} Japanese National Road Race Championships, Sho Hatsuyama

:{{JPN}} Japanese National Time Trial Championships, Ryota Nishizono

;2017

:Stage 3 Tour de Kumano, Damien Monier

:{{JPN}} Japanese National Time Trial Championships, Ryota Nishizono

:Stage 1 Tour de Hokkaido, Ryu Suzuki

;2018

:{{JPN}} 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

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National champions

;2012

:20px Japan Time Trial, Ryota Nishizono

;2016

:20px Japan Road Race, Sho Hatsuyama

:20px Japan Time Trial, Ryota Nishizono

;2017

:20px Japan Time Trial, Ryota Nishizono

;2018

:20px Japan Time Trial, Kazushige Kuboki

References

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