RTS Racing Team () is a Taiwanese UCI Continental cycling team managed by Wen Chin Lin and sponsored by Giant Bicycles, Kinlin Industrial Corporation, Kenda, Kalloy, OGK Helmet, Yaban Chain, Ashima, Exustar, Smanie, Cionlli, XPEDO, VIM Group and Adidas Eyewear.
History
RTS Racing Team was established by president Liu of Corporation unofficially around 1990. Lin Qing Fa was appointed coach in 1992, and was later replaced by Lin Wen Chin. Over its first decade, RTS Racing Team became Mountain biking and Road racing champions in Taiwan, and represented Taiwan in many races abroad.
In 2002, RTS Racing Team was formally established, under the name Giant Asia Racing Team, by general manager Liu Yong Chang. Lin Wen Chin was appointed as the manager of the team, and it was officially registered as a Trade Team III, the first such team registered in Asia. Together with Giant, thirteen other financial sponsors helped cover the expenditure of the cycling team.
Team roster
Major wins
2002
Overall Tour de Korea, Tang Xuezhong
:Stages 2 & 4, Tang Xuezhong
Stage 5 Tour of Bulgaria, Jamsrangiin ÃÂlzii-Orshikh
Overall Perlis Open, Jamsrangiin ÃÂlzii-Orshikh
:Stage 1, Jamsrangiin ÃÂlzii-Orshikh
:Stage 3, Paul Redenbach
Tour de Okinawa, Paul Redenbach
2003
Overall Tour de Korea, Glen Chadwick
:Stage 3, Glen Chadwick
Stage 4b Tour of Queensland, Brett Aitken
2004
Time Trial Championships, David McCann
Overall Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey, Ahad Kazemi
Stages 1 & 2 Tour de Korea, David McCann
2005
Time Trial Championships, David McCann
Overall Kerman Tour, Hossein Askari
:Stage 2, Ghader Mizbani
Overall Tour de Korea, David McCann
:Stage 2, David McCann
Overall Azerbaijan Tour, Ghader Mizbani
:Prologue, Hossein Askari
:Stage 2, Ghader Mizbani
:Stage 3, David McCann
:Stage 5, Paul Griffin
Overall Tour de East Java, Ahad Kazemi
:Stage 1, Paul Griffin
:Stage 2, Ahad Kazemi
:Stage 4, Ghader Mizbani
Stage 5 Tour of Qinghai Lake, Ghader Mizbani
Overall Tour de Indonesia, Hossein Askari
:Stage 1, Paul Griffin
:Stage 2, David McCann
:Stage 3, Hossein Askari
Overall Tour of Milad du Nour, David McCann
:Stage 1, David McCann
:Stage 6, Ahad Kazemi
Stage 6 Herald Sun Tour, David McCann
Overall Tour de Taiwan, Ahad Kazemi
:Stage 4, Ahad Kazemi
2006
Road Race Championships, David McCann
Time Trial Championships, Ghader Mizbani
Stage 7 Tour of Siam, Daniel Lloyd
Stage 1 & 4 Tour of Thailand, David McCann
Overall Kerman Tour, Ghader Mizbani
:Stage 1, Ghader Mizbani
:Stages 2 & 4, Hossein Askari
Overall Tour de Korea, Tobias Erler
:Stage 3, Tobias Erler
Overall Azerbaijan Tour, Ghader Mizbani
:Stage 2, Hossein Askari
Overall Tour de East Java, Ghader Mizbani
:Stage 4, Ghader Mizbani
Stage 4 Tour of Qinghai Lake, Daniel Lloyd
Stage 5 Tour of Qinghai Lake, David McCann
Overall Tour of Milad du Nour, Ghader Mizbani
:Stage 2, Ghader Mizbani
:Stages 6 & 7, Hossein Askari
Overall Tour de Indonesia, David McCann
2007
Road Race Championships, Ghader Mizbani
Time Trial Championships, Hossein Askari
Stage 4 Jelajah Malaysia, Hossein Askari
Stage 7 Jelajah Malaysia, Lai Kuan-Hua
Overall Tour of Siam, Jai Crawford
:Stage 4, Ghader Mizbani
Stage 4 Tour de Taiwan, Ghader Mizbani
Stage 1 Kerman Tour, Ghader Mizbani
Stage 3 Kerman Tour, Hossein Askari
Overall Azerbaijan Tour, Hossein Askari
:Stage 2, Hossein Askari
:Stages 3 & 8, Ahad Kazemi
Stage 4 Ghader Mizbani
Overall Tour of Milad du Nour, Ghader Mizbani
:Stage 4, Ahad Kazemi
:Stage 5, Ghader Mizbani
2008
Stage 6 Tour de Korea, David McCann
Overall Tour of Thailand, Alex Coutts
:Stage 2, Stefan Löffler
2010
Time Trial Championships, David McCann
Road Race Championships, Eugen Wacker
Time Trial Championships, Eugen Wacker
Overall Tour de Taiwan, David McCann
:Stage 1, David McCann
Stage 1 Tour of Thailand, David McCann
Overall Tour de Filipinas, David McCann
:Stages 1 & 4, David McCann
Overall Melaka Governor's Cup, David McCann
:Stage 1, David McCann
Overall Jelajah Malaysia, David McCann
Stages 4 & 6 Tour of China, Rico Rogers
2011
Stage 7 Tour de Taiwan, Rico Rogers
2012
Stage 2 Jelajah Malaysia, Jai Crawford
2013
Road Race Championships, Muradjan Khalmuratov
Time Trial Championships, Muradjan Khalmuratov
Stage 4 Tour de Ijen, Rahim Emami
Overall Tour of Fuzhou, Rahim Emami
:Stage 1, Boris Shpilevsky
:Stage 2, Rahim Emami
Sea Games Myanmar Road Race, Alex Ariya Destribois-Coudroy
2014
Road Race Championships, Ruslan Karimov
Stage 7 Tour of China I, Boris Shpilevsky
Overall Tour of China II, Boris Shpilevsky
:Stages 2 & 5, Boris Shpilevsky
Stages 5 & 9 Tour of Taihu Lake, Boris Shpilevsky
Stage 1 Tour of Fuzhou, Boris Shpilevsky
2015
Stage 5 Tour de Taiwan, Tino Thömel
Stage 8 Tour de Korea, Tino Thömel
Road Race Championships, Park Sang-hong
Stage 7 Tour of Hainan, Tino Thömel
Stage 2 Tour of Yancheng Coastal Wetlands, Tino Thömel
2018
Road Race Championships, Muradjan Khalmuratov
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