# 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. For 2013, they signed Damien Monier, a French stage winner at the Giro d'Italia. 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.

## Team roster

    As of 17 February 2022.
| | Rider | Date of birth |
| Ryo Chikatani (JPN) | Ryo Chikatani (JPN) | (1992-04-17) 17 April 1992 (age 32) |
| Eiya Hashimoto (JPN) | Eiya Hashimoto (JPN) | (1993-12-15) 15 December 1993 (age 30) |
| Shunsuke Imamura (JPN) | Shunsuke Imamura (JPN) | (1998-02-14) 14 February 1998 (age 26) |
| Shōki Kawano (JPN) | Shōki Kawano (JPN) | (2000-03-26) 26 March 2000 (age 24) |
| Naoki Kojima (JPN) | Naoki Kojima (JPN) | (2000-11-01) 1 November 2000 (age 23) |
| | Rider | Date of birth |
| Kazushige Kuboki (JPN) | Kazushige Kuboki (JPN) | (1989-06-06) 6 June 1989 (age 35) |
| Shoi Matsuda (JPN) | Shoi Matsuda (JPN) | (1999-09-13) 13 September 1999 (age 25) |
| Toki Sawada (JPN) | Toki Sawada (JPN) | (1994-01-12) 12 January 1994 (age 30) |
| Suguru Tokuda (JPN) | Suguru Tokuda (JPN) | (1994-05-31) 31 May 1994 (age 30) |
| Tetsuo Yamamoto (JPN) | Tetsuo Yamamoto (JPN) | (2000-03-17) 17 March 2000 (age 24) |

## 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

    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

    Japan Japanese National Road Race Championships, Sho Hatsuyama
    Japan Japanese National Time Trial Championships, Ryota Nishizono

### 2017

    Stage 3 Tour de Kumano, Damien Monier
    Japan Japanese National Time Trial Championships, Ryota Nishizono
    Stage 1 Tour de Hokkaido, Ryu Suzuki

### 2018

    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

### 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