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. 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
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
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