Rietumu Banka–Riga

Rietumu Banka–Riga
Team information
UCI codeRBR
RegisteredLatvia
Founded2004 (2004)
Disbanded2017
Discipline(s)Road / Mountain Bike
StatusUCI Continental team
Key personnel
General managerLinards Veide
Team manager(s)Toms Flaksis
Team name history
2002–2009
2012–2016
2017
Rietumu Banka–Riga
Rietumu–Delfin
Rietumu Banka–Riga
Jersey

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.