Vita Heine

Vita Heine
	Heine in 2016
Personal information
Full name	Vita Heine
Born	Vita Pētersone; 21 November 1984 (age 40); Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union; (now Latvia);
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Team information
Current team	Massi–Tactic
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Amateur team
2014	Endura Lady Force
Professional teams
2014–2020	Team Hitec Products
2021–	Massi–Tactic

Vita Heine (née Pētersone; born 21 November 1984) is a racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team Massi–Tactic.^[3]

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 from 2021.^[6]

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

2017

Norwegian National Road Championships^[a]

1st

Road race

1st

Time trial

1st

Mountains classification Belgium Tour

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Heine competed under Latvian nationality up until 2014 before switching to Norway.

^ "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.