Aleksejs Saramotins

Aleksejs Saramotins

Saramotins at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships
Personal information
Full name	Aleksejs Saramotins
Born	(1982-04-08) 8 April 1982 (age 42) Riga, Latvian SSR (now Latvia)
Height	184 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	75 kg (165 lb)
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Classics specialist[1]
Professional teams
2005–2008	Rietumu Banka–Riga
2009	Team Designa Køkken
2010	Team HTC–Columbia
2011–2012	Cofidis
2013–2016	IAM Cycling
2017–2018	Bora–Hansgrohe
2019	Interpro Cycling Academy
Major wins
One-Day Races and Classics National Road Race Championships (2005–2007, 2010, 2012–2013, 2015) National Time Trial Championships (2017)

Aleksejs Saramotins (born 8 April 1982) is a Latvian professional road cyclist, who last rode for UCI Continental team Interpro Cycling Academy. He has won the Latvian National Road Race Championships on seven occasions and has represented his country at the Summer Olympic Games and the UCI Road World Championships.

Before signing a professional contract Saramotins raced in cross-country mountain biking races.

In 2009 he won the Münsterland Giro whilst riding for Team Designa Køkken which led to him joining Team HTC–Columbia in 2010.^[2][3] Saramotins left his team of two years Cofidis^[4] at the end of the 2012 season, and joined the new IAM Cycling team for the 2013 season.^[5]

In October 2016 he and IAM Cycling teammate Matteo Pelucchi were announced as members of the Bora–Hansgrohe squad for 2017.^[1] After two years, he joined Interpro Cycling Academy for the 2019 season.

Grand Tour	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
Giro d'Italia	—	—	—	—	161
Tour de France	Has not contested during his career
Vuelta a España	166	—	—	DNF	—

• Aleksejs Saramotins at UCI
• Aleksejs Saramotins at Cycling Archives (archived)
• Aleksejs Saramotins at ProCyclingStats
• Aleksejs Saramotins at Cycling Quotient
• Aleksejs Saramotins at CycleBase
• Aleksejs Saramotins at the Latvijas Olimpiskā komiteja (in Latvian) (English translation, archive)