title: Rietumu Banka–Riga
text: # Rietumu Banka–Riga
  
  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. It was a UCI Continental team until the end of the 2008 season, when team shifted main focus on XC MTB racing. 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, and 2015 UCI America Tour winner Toms Skujiņš.
  
  The team disbanded at the end of the 2017 season.
  
  ## 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
  
  | | Rider | Date of birth |
  | - | - | - |
  | Uldis Ālītis (LAT) | Uldis Ālītis (LAT) | (1983-07-25) 25 July 1983 (age 40) |
  | Armands Bēcis (LAT) | Armands Bēcis (LAT) | (1991-01-16) 16 January 1991 (age 32) |
  | Artūrs Belēvičs (LAT) | Artūrs Belēvičs (LAT) | (1996-02-03) 3 February 1996 (age 27) |
  | Māris Bogdanovičs (LAT) | Māris Bogdanovičs (LAT) | (1991-11-19) 19 November 1991 (age 31) |
  | Ēriks Toms Gavars (LAT) | Ēriks Toms Gavars (LAT) | (1997-04-20) 20 April 1997 (age 26) |
  | Marcis Kalnins (LAT) | Marcis Kalnins (LAT) | (1998-05-05) 5 May 1998 (age 25) |
  | Deins Kaņepējs (LAT) | Deins Kaņepējs (LAT) | (1995-10-05) 5 October 1995 (age 27) |
  | | Rider | Date of birth |
  | Emīls Liepiņš (LAT) | Emīls Liepiņš (LAT) | (1992-10-29) 29 October 1992 (age 30) |
  | Viesturs Lukševics (LAT) | Viesturs Lukševics (LAT) | (1987-04-16) 16 April 1987 (age 36) |
  | Peeter Pruus (EST) | Peeter Pruus (EST) | (1989-07-16) 16 July 1989 (age 34) |
  | Klāvs Rubenis (LAT) | Klāvs Rubenis (LAT) | (1997-01-18) 18 January 1997 (age 26) |
  | Dimitriy Sorokin (RUS) | Dimitriy Sorokin (RUS) | (1982-06-06) 6 June 1982 (age 41) |
  | Tomas Vaitkus (LIT) | Tomas Vaitkus (LIT) | (1982-02-04) 4 February 1982 (age 41) |
  | Andris Vosekalns (LAT) | Andris Vosekalns (LAT) | (1992-06-26) 26 June 1992 (age 31) |
  