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Latvian cycling team
Rietumu Banka–Riga
UCI code RBR Registered Latvia Founded 2004 (2004 ) Disbanded 2017 Discipline(s)
Road / Mountain Bike Status UCI Continental team General manager Linards Veide Team manager(s) Toms Flaksis 2002–2009 2012–2016 2017
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Rietumu Banka–Riga (
UCI team code: RBR ) is a
Latvian
cycling team established in 2002 in order to develop Latvian cyclists to an international level. Its main sponsor is
Rietumu Banka . During next year`s former professional riders
Jaan Kirsipuu and
Arvis Piziks worked as sports directors.
[1] It was a
UCI Continental team until the end of the 2008 season, when team shifted main focus on XC MTB racing.
[2] In 2012 the team is once again registered at UCI level. The most famous riders of the team have been
Aleksejs Saramotins , 2015 world time trial champion
Vasil Kiryienka ,
[3] and
2015 UCI America Tour winner
Toms Skujiņš .
[4]
[5]
The team disbanded at the end of the 2017 season.
[6]
Major wins
2005
Stages 1a & 2
The Paths of King Nikola ,
Normunds Lasis
Prologue (ITT)
Tour of Greece ,
Normunds Lasis
Stage 3
Tour of Greece ,
Gusts Eisaks
Latvia Road Race Championships,
Aleksejs Saramotins
Overall
Giro della Toscana ,
Sergey Firsanov
2006
Mayor Cup ,
Normunds Lasis
Latvia Road Race Championships,
Aleksejs Saramotins
Belarus Time Trial Championships,
Vasil Kiryienka
Stage 6
Course de la Solidarité Olympique ,
Vasil Kiryienka
Stage 5a
Tour of Bulgaria ,
Sergey Firsanov
2007
Stage 1
Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux ,
Normunds Lasis
Memorial Oleg Dyachenko ,
Sergey Firsanov
Latvia Road Race Championships,
Aleksejs Saramotins
Puchar Ministra Obrony Narodowej ,
Tarmo Raudsepp
Stage 4
Tour of Croatia ,
Aleksejs Saramotins
2008
Stage 1
Circuit des Ardennes ,
Aleksejs Saramotins
Stage 4
Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour ,
Alexander Mironov
Stage 1a
Five Rings of Moscow ,
Mart Ojavee
Tallinn–Tartu GP ,
Mart Ojavee
Tartu GP ,
Aleksejs Saramotins
Stage 2
Ringerike GP ,
Sergey Firsanov
Scandinavian Open Road Race ,
Aleksejs Saramotins
Stage 3
Okolo Slovenska ,
Aleksejs Saramotins
Stage 4a
Okolo Slovenska ,
Sergey Firsanov
Lombardia Tour ,
Aleksejs Saramotins
Overall
Way to Pekin ,
Sergey Firsanov
Stage 1,
Alexander Mironov
Stages 2, 3 & 7,
Sergey Firsanov
Stage 4,
Mart Ojavee
Stage 5,
Justas Volungevičius
2011
Scandinavian Race Uppsala ,
Andžs Flaksis
2012
GP Oued Eddahab ,
Andris Smirnovs
2013
Stage 2
Tour de Blida ,
Toms Skujiņš
Latvia Under-23 Road Race Championships,
Toms Skujiņš
Prologue
Tour de Guadeloupe , Team time trial
Stage 6
Baltic Chain Tour ,
Andris Smirnovs
2014
Latvia Under-23 Road Race Championships,
Krists Neilands
Latvia Road Race Championships,
Andris Vosekalns
2015
Latvia Under-23 Time Trial Championships,
Krists Neilands
Stage 1
Tour of China I,
Armands Bēcis
Overall
Tour de Borneo ,
Peeter Pruus
Stage 3,
Krists Neilands
Stage 5,
Peeter Pruus
2016
Overall
Baltic Chain Tour ,
Maris Bogdanovics
Stage 2,
Maris Bogdanovics
2017
Latvia Under-23 Time Trial Championships,
Marcis Kalnins
Team roster
References
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