Vita Heine (née Pētersone; born 21 November 1984) is a
racing cyclist
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, who currently rides for
UCI Women's Continental Team .
Career
Born in
Riga
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in
Latvia
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, Heine competed for Latvia in the
2013 UCI women's road race in
Florence
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.
She obtained Norwegian citizenship from 1 July 2014, and joined Norwegian-based on 1 September 2014. She remained with the team until the end of the 2020 season, joining from 2021.
Major results
;2011
: 3rd Time trial, Latvian National Road Championships
;2013
: 2nd Time trial, Latvian National Road Championships
;2014
: 2nd Time trial, Latvian National Road Championships
;2016
: Norwegian National Road Championships
::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
Chrono des Nations – Les Herbiers Vendée is a single-day individual time trial road bicycle race held annually in October in Les Herbiers, Vendée, France. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour.
It was orig ...
;2017
: Norwegian National Road Championships
::1st
Road race
::1st
Time trial
: 1st
Mountains classification
Belgium Tour
The Lotto Belgium Tour is an elite women's professional road bicycle stage race, held in Belgium since 2012.
In the first year the tour consisted of three stages and grew with a team time trial
A team time trial (TTT) is a road bicycle race ...
;2018
: 1st
Road race, Norwegian National Road Championships
;2019
: 1st
Time trial, Norwegian National Road Championships
Footnotes
References
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1984 births
Living people
Latvian female cyclists
Norwegian female cyclists
Sportspeople from Riga
Latvian emigrants to Norway
Naturalised citizens of Norway
Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic cyclists of Norway