Utsunomiya Blitzen

Utsunomiya Blitzen (宇都宮ブリッツェン, Utsunomiya Burittsen) is a Japanese UCI Continental cycling team.^[1] It was established in 2009 with a home base in Utsunomiya, Tochigi, the location of the Japan Cup cycling race.^[2]

A team car at the 2022 Tour of Japan

Utsunomiya Blitzen

The team at the 2022 Japan Cup
Team information
UCI code	BLZ
Registered	Japan
Founded	2009 (2009)
Discipline(s)	Road
Status	UCI Continental
Website	Team home page
Key personnel
General manager	Yoshimasa Hirose
Team manager(s)	Yasutaka Tashiro
Team name history
2009 2010–	Blitzen Utsunomiya Pro Racing Utsunomiya Blitzen

Team roster

As of 8 February 2024.^[3]

Rider Date of birth  Rubén Darío Acosta (COL) (1996-08-20) 20 August 1996 (age 28)  Chun Kai Feng (TWN) (1988-11-02) 2 November 1988 (age 36)  Kiyomasa Hanada (JPN) (1998-07-31) 31 July 1998 (age 26)  Haruhi Honda (JPN) (2000-04-02) 2 April 2000 (age 25)  Ryota Kaihara (JPN) (1997-08-16) 16 August 1997 (age 27)  Yo Sakai (TWN) (1994-10-20) 20 October 1994 (age 30)

Rider Date of birth  Toki Sawada (JPN) (1994-01-12) 12 January 1994 (age 31)  Yecid Sierra (COL) (1994-08-16) 16 August 1994 (age 30)  Aira Sugeno (JPN) (2004-04-01) 1 April 2004 (age 21)  Kosuke Takeyama (JPN) (1997-11-22) 22 November 1997 (age 27)  Junsei Tani (JPN) (1994-08-04) 4 August 1994 (age 30)

Major wins

2010

Stage 1 Tour de Kumano, Yoshimitsu Tsuji

2014

Tour de Okinawa, Nariyuki Masuda

2016

Overall Tour de Hokkaido, Nariyuki Masuda

Stage 2, Nariyuki Masuda

Prologue Tour de Kumano, Takayuki Abe

Stage 3 Tour de Kumano, Jin Okubo

Tour de Okinawa, Nariyuki Masuda

2017

U23 Asian Time Trial Cycling Championships, Rei Onodera

Points classification Tour de Kumano, Takayuki Abe

2018

Mountains classification Tour of Japan, Yuzuru Suzuki

Stage 2, Takeaki Amezawa

Prologue Tour de Kumano, Takayuki Abe

2019

Prologue Tour of Japan, Atsushi Oka

 Japan National Time Trial Championships, Nariyuki Masuda

Tour de Okinawa, Nariyuki Masuda

2021

Overall Tour of Japan, Nariyuki Masuda

Stage 1, Nariyuki Masuda

Mountains classification, Nariyuki Masuda

2022

Young rider classification Tour of Japan, Taishi Miyazaki