Team Nippo (2010)

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The Team Nippo is a Japanese road cycling team .

history

The team was founded in 2010 and is sponsored by the construction company Nippo (formerly Nippon Hodō). In 2010 she took part in the UCI Continental Circuits as a Continental Team . The manager this year was Hiroshi Daimon, who was supported by the sporting directors Antonio Cibei, Ken Hashikawa and Alberto Elli . The team was disbanded at the end of the season. Daimin, Elli and Hasikawa worked in the following years for the initially Italian team D'Angelo & Antenucci-Nippo , which was also called Team Nippo from 2012 and drove with a Japanese license.

The following teams have been sponsored by Nippo before:

  • 1985–1997: Nippon Hodo Racing Team
  • 1998: Nippon Hodo – Besson (France), VC. Lugano – Nippon Hodo (Switzerland, Italy, Japan), Pittishoes – Nippon Hodo – VC. Lugano (Switzerland, Italy)
  • 1999: Nippon Hodo – Besson (France)
  • 2000: Team Nippon Hodo
  • 2001: Team Nippon Hodo – PERS (France)
  • 2002: Team Nippo – Jura Suisse
  • 2003: Team Nippo
  • 2004–2005: Team Nippo-Unika
  • 2006: Team Nippo – KFS
  • 2007: Team Nippo – Colnago, Team Nippo – Meitan Hompo – Equipe asada
  • 2008: Team Nippo – Endeka , Team Colnago
  • 2009: Team Nippo – Colnago
  • 2010: Team Nippo

successes

date run Cat. driver
May 27th JapanJapanPrologue Tour de Kumano (EZF) 2.2 JapanJapan Takashi Miyazawa
May 29th JapanJapan2nd stage Tour de Kumano 2.2 JapanJapan Junya Sano
June 27th JapanJapan Japanese Championship - Road Racing NC JapanJapan Takashi Miyazawa
4th of August SpainSpain2nd stage Vuelta Ciclista a León 2.2 JapanJapan Takashi Miyazawa
October 10th JapanJapan Kumamoto International Road Race 1.2 JapanJapan Takashi Miyazawa

team

Surname birthday nationality Team 2009 Team 2011
Luca Barla September 29, 1987 ItalyItaly Italy Team Milram Androni Giocattoli
Mirko Battaglini September 13, 1987 ItalyItaly Italy Neoprofi
Tetsuya Fujioka May 29, 1988 JapanJapan Japan Neoprofi
Vincenzo Garofalo 5th August 1982 ItalyItaly Italy Amica chips knob Matrix Powertag
Kazuo Inoue 17th February 1981 JapanJapan Japan Team Nippo-Endeka (2008) Bridgestone Anchor
Masaaki Kikuchi April 9, 1986 JapanJapan Japan EQA-Meitan Hompo-Graphite Design D'Angelo & Antenucci-Nippo
Nariyuki Masuda October 23, 1983 JapanJapan Japan EQA-Meitan Hompo-Graphite Design Utsunomiya lightning
Takashi Miyazawa February 27, 1978 JapanJapan Japan EQA-Meitan Hompo-Graphite Design Farnese Vini-Neri Sottoli
Yasuharu Nakajima December 27, 1984 JapanJapan Japan EQA-Meitan Hompo-Graphite Design Aisan Racing Team
Makoto Nakata September 9, 1976 JapanJapan Japan Neoprofi
Umberto Nardecchia May 11, 1981 ItalyItaly Italy CSF Group Navigare
Junya Sano January 9, 1982 JapanJapan Japan Team Nippo Colnago D'Angelo & Antenucci-Nippo
Alessio Signego December 11, 1983 ItalyItaly Italy Adria Mobil
Mariusz Wiesiak April 1, 1981 PolandPoland Poland Team Nippo Colnago Matrix Powertag
Nicolas Winter February 15, 1989 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland Neoprofi Partizan Powermove

Placements in UCI rankings

UCI America Tour

season Team ranking Driver ranking
2010 27. JapanJapan Takashi Miyazawa (172.)

UCI Asia Tour

season Team ranking Driver ranking
2010 4th JapanJapan Takashi Miyazawa (7th)

UCI Europe Tour

season Team ranking Driver ranking
2010 88 JapanJapan Junya Sano (622nd)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Team NIPPO about NIPPO. Nippo, accessed June 17, 2010 (Japanese).

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