Vita Heine
Heine at the 2019 Women's Tour of Scotland | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Vita Heine |
| Born | Vita Pētersone 21 November 1984
|
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Amateur team | |
| 2014 | Endura Lady Force |
| Professional teams | |
| 2014–2020 | Team Hitec Products[1][2] |
| 2021 | Massi–Tactic[3] |
Vita Heine (née Pētersone; born 21 November 1984) is a former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2014 and 2021 for UCI Women's Continental Teams Hitec Products–Birk Sport and Massi–Tactic.
During her career, Heine took seventeen victories including seven Norwegian national titles – three victories in the Norwegian National Time Trial Championships (2016, 2017 and 2019), and four victories in the Norwegian National Road Race Championships (2016–2018 and 2021).
Career
Born in Riga in Latvia, Heine competed for Latvia in the 2013 UCI women's road race in Florence.[4] She obtained Norwegian citizenship from 1 July 2014, and joined Norwegian-based Team Hitec Products on 1 September 2014.[5] She remained with the team until the end of the 2020 season, joining Massi–Tactic for 2021.[6]
Major results
Source: [7]
- 2011
- 3rd Time trial, Latvian National Road Championships[a]
- 2013
- 2nd Time trial, Latvian National Road Championships[a]
- 2014
- 2nd Time trial, Latvian National Road Championships[a]
- 6th Overall Tour de Bretagne Féminin
- 2016
- Norwegian National Road Championships[a]
- 1st Road race
- 1st Time trial
- 1st Overall NEA
- 1st Stage 1a (ITT) & 2
- KZN Summer Series
- 1st Races 1 & 2
- 4th Chrono des Nations
- 7th Ljubljana–Domžale–Ljubljana TT
- 8th 94.7 Cycle Challenge
- 2017
- Norwegian National Road Championships[a]
- 1st Road race
- 1st Time trial
- 1st Mountains classification, Belgium Tour
- 2nd 94.7 Cycle Challenge
- 9th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan Dames
- 2018
- Norwegian National Road Championships[a]
- 1st Road race
- 3rd Time trial
- 6th Overall Women's Tour of Thailand
- 6th Chrono Champenois
- 2019
- 1st Time trial, Norwegian National Road Championships[a]
- 1st Overall Tour de Feminin – O cenu Českého Švýcarska
- 1st Stage 3a (ITT)
- 1st Chrono Champenois
- 1st Stage 3 Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen
- 2nd Overall Tour of Uppsala
- 1st Stage 3
- 2nd Chrono des Nations
- 4th Time trial, UEC European Road Championships
- 2020
- 2nd Time trial, Norwegian National Road Championships[a]
- 2021
- Norwegian National Road Championships[a]
- 1st Road race
- 2nd Time trial
- 9th Overall Tour de Feminin – O cenu Českého Švýcarska
Footnotes
References
- ^ "Hitec Products-Birk Sport". Directvelo (in French). Association Le Peloton. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
- ^ "Hitec Products - Birk Sport". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 28 January 2020. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
- ^ "Massi Tactic Women Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 24 January 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
- ^ "Final Results / Résultats finaux: Road Race Women Elite / Course en ligne femmes élite" (PDF). Sport Result. Tissot Timing. 28 September 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
- ^ Mathisen, Egil (14 August 2014). "Vita Heine til Hitec Products". Sykkelekspressen (in Norwegian).
- ^ "El Massi-Tactic ficha a cuatro europeas y una canadiense" [Massi-Tatic sign four Europeans and a Canadian]. EsCiclismo (in Spanish). Comercial Studio SL. 18 November 2020. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- ^ "Vita Heine". FirstCycling.com. FirstCycling AS. Retrieved 24 June 2025.
External links
- Vita Heine at UCI
- Vita Heine at ProCyclingStats
- Vita Heine at Cycling Archives (archive)