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Miyataka Shimizu Personal information Full name Miyataka Shimizu Born November 23, 1981
JapanHeight 1.64 m (5 ft 4 1⁄2 in) Weight 60 kg (130 lb; 9.4 st) Team information Current team Bridgestone Anchor Discipline Road Role Rider Professional team(s) 2004–2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010–Team Bridgestone Anchor
Cycle Racing Team Vang
Nippo Corporation
Meitan Honpo-GDR
EQA-Meitan Honpo
Team Bridgestone AnchorMajor wins Vuelta a León (2007)
Tour de Kumano (2008)
Paris–Corrèze (2008)
Tour de Hokkaido (2010)Infobox last updated on
September 19, 2010Miyataka Shimizu ( 清水都貴 Shimizu Miyataka ) (born November 23, 1981, in Saitama Prefecture) is a Japanese professional racing cyclist, currently riding for Team Bridgestone Anchor. After beginning cycling at Hatoyama High School, he attended the National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Kanoya before becoming a professional in 2004. Shimizu is in general considered an all-rounder. His victory at Paris–Corrèze in 2008, one of the first of a UCI category 1 stage race in Europe by a Japanese, has been termed "epoch making."[1]
Career highlights
- 2005
- 3rd Overall Tour de Hokkaido (Japan)
- 3rd Stage 1
- 2007
- 1st Overall Vuelta Ciclista a León (Spain)
- 1st Stage 1
- Tour of Hainan (China)
- 2nd Stage 5
- 3rd Stage 6
- 2008
- 1st Overall Tour de Kumano (Japan)
- 2nd Stage 1
- 1st Stage 2
- 1st Stage 3
- 1st Overall Paris–Corrèze (France)
- 1st Stage 1
- 3rd Stage 3 Tour de Hokkaido (Japan)
- 2nd Overall Tour de Okinawa (Japan)
- 2nd Stage 2
- 2009
- 2nd Stage 7 Tour de Korea (Korea)
- 3rd Kumamoto International Road Race (Japan)
- 2010
- 1st Stage 2 Tour de Taiwan (Taiwan)
- 1st Overall Tour de Martinique (France)
- 1st Stage 7, 2nd Stages 3, 5 and 8, 3rd Stage 6
- 1st Overall Tour de Hokkaido (Japan)
- 1st Stage 2
- 2011
- 2nd Overall Tour of Thailand (Thailand)
- 2nd Stage 6
- 3rd Japanese National Road Race Championships, Road
References
- ^ Ayano, Makoto (August 10, 2008). "Shimizu Miyataka ga sōgō yūshō!" (in Japanese). Cycling Time. http://www.cyclingtime.com/modules/ctnews/view.php?p=8969. Retrieved 9 June 2010.
External links
- Miyataka Shimizu profile at Cycling Archives
- Team Bridgestone Anchor (official site, Japanese)
Categories:- 1981 births
- Living people
- Japanese cyclists
- People from Saitama Prefecture
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