Aleksejs Saramotins
Saramotins at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Aleksejs Saramotins |
| Born |
8 April 1982 Riga, Latvian SSR (now Latvia) |
| Height | 184 cm (6 ft 0 in) |
| Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Bora–Hansgrohe |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Classics specialist |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2005–2008 | Rietumu Banka–Riga |
| 2009 | Team Designa Køkken |
| 2010 | Team HTC–Columbia |
| 2011–2012 | Cofidis |
| 2013–2016 | IAM Cycling |
| 2017– | Bora–Hansgrohe |
| Major wins | |
| National Road Race Championships (2005–2007, 2010, 2012–2013) |
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Aleksejs Saramotins (born 8 April 1982) is a Latvian professional road cyclist who rides for Bora–Hansgrohe. He has won the Latvian National Road Race Championships on six occasions and has represented his country at the Olympic Games and the World championships. In 2009 he won the Münsterland Giro whilst riding for Team Designa Køkken which led to him joining Team HTC–Columbia in 2010. Saramotins left his team of two years Cofidis at the end of the 2012 season, and joined the new IAM Cycling team for the 2013 season.
In October 2016 he and IAM Cycling teammate Matteo Pelucchi were announced as members of the Bora–Hansgrohe squad for 2017.
Before signing a professional contract he also raced in cross-country mountain biking races.
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