Rietumu Banka–Riga

Rietumu Banka–Riga 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
 * Road Race Championships, Aleksejs Saramotins
 * Overall Giro della Toscana, Sergey Firsanov


 * 2006
 * Mayor Cup, Normunds Lasis
 * Road Race Championships, Aleksejs Saramotins
 * 🇧🇾 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
 * 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
 * Under-23 Road Race Championships, Toms Skujiņš
 * Prologue Tour de Guadeloupe, Team time trial
 * Stage 6 Baltic Chain Tour, Andris Smirnovs


 * 2014
 * Under-23 Road Race Championships, Krists Neilands
 * Road Race Championships, Andris Vosekalns


 * 2015
 * 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
 * Under-23 Time Trial Championships, Marcis Kalnins