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Brisaspor
Team information
RegisteredTurkey
Founded1982 (1982) (men)
2001 (2001) (women)
2005 (2005) (mountainbike)
Discipline(s)Road, mountain
BicyclesColnago (road)
Salcano (mountainbike)
Team name history
Lassaspor (1982-1999)

Brisaspor is a Turkish professional road bicycle racing team based in Kocaeli, and sponsored by the local Brisa Bridgestone Sabancı Lastik company of Turkish Sabancı Group, which produces and distributes Bridgestone tires from Japan. The cycling team is part of the Brisaspor Club.

Preparations to form a cycling team goes back to 1978, when a summer camp was opened to build infrastructure. The team was officially established in 1982 with the twelve sportspeople from the summer camp as Lassaspor, which was sponsored by the Turkish Lassa company that is the main facility for the production of both tire brands.[1]

Already in 1983, the team became Turkish champion.[1] In 1999, Brisaspor began to participate at competitions of international level. It is the first champion of the Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey. Between 2001 and 2007, Brisa became seven consecutive times champion of the Tour of Turkey. In 2001, women cycling team was formed. From 2005 on, the club took part in mountain biking (MTB) competitions.

Team member Bilal Akgül became the first ever Turkish Olympian cyclist participating at the mountain biking event of 2008 Summer Olympics. Kemal Küçükbay took part at the men's road race event of 2012 Summer Olympics. Team member Onur Balkan qualified for participation in the road race event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[2]

Brisaspor consists of 28 sportspeople, five technical staff, twelve senior men, seven junior men and four women.

Team roster

Bilal Akgül during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing
Semra Yetiş during the 2009 UCI Road World Championships in Mendrisio

As of July 2016.[3]

Senior men's

Rider Date of birth
 Aleksandar Aleksiev (BUL)
 Onur Balkan (TUR) (1996-03-10) March 10, 1996 (age 28)
 Gökhan Hasta (TUR)
 Stefan Histrov (BUL) (1985-07-12) July 12, 1985 (age 39)
 Turgut Kafes (TUR)
 Adil Kurkut (TUR)
Rider Date of birth
 Kemal Küçükbay (TUR) (1982-08-23) August 23, 1982 (age 42)
 Uğur Marmara (TUR)
 Ali Rıza Tanrıverdi (TUR)
 Lütfullah Tanrıverdi (TUR)
 Recep Ünalan (TUR) (1985-04-09) April 9, 1985 (age 39)

MTB men's

Rider Date of birth
 Bilal Akgül (TUR) (1982-10-13) October 13, 1982 (age 42)
 Halil İbrahim Doğan (TUR)
 Sinan İli (TUR)
Rider Date of birth
 Abdülkadir Kelleci (TUR)
 Mustafa Köklü (TUR)
 Yunus Emre Yılmaz (TUR)

Women's

Rider Date of birth
 Ebru C. Andaş (TUR)
 Beyza Kahveci (TUR)
 Merve Tayfun Marmara (TUR)
Rider Date of birth
 Cansu Türkmenoğlu (TUR)
 Ece Yıldırım (TUR)

Major wins

1999
Overall Tour of Mevlana, Mert Mutlu
2000
Overall Tour of Mevlana, Mert Mutlu
2001
Overall Tour of Turkey, Mert Mutlu
2003
Overall Tour of Turkey, Mert Mutlu
Stage 5, Mert Mutlu
2005
Overall Tour of Turkey
Stage 3, Mert Mutlu
2009
OverallTour du Maroc, Alexandr Dymovskikh
Stage 3, Alexandr Dymovskikh
2010
Overall Tour of Marmara, Kemal Küçükbay
2nd Overall Tour of Marmara, Mert Mutlu
Stage 1, Mert Mutlu
2011
Overall Tour of Trakya, Kemal Küçükbay
Stage 3, Kemal Küçükbay
2nd Overall Tour of Turkey, Kemal Küçükbay
Overall Cappadocia, Mert Mutlu
Stage 1, Mert Mutlu
Overall Tour of Victory, Nazim Bakırcı
Stage 3, Nazim Bakırcı
2012
Overall Grand Prix Dobrich II, Stefan Hristov
2013
Tour of Bulgaria
Stage 2, Stefan Hristov
Overall Tour of Szeklerland, Georgi Georgiev
Stages 2, Georgi Georgiev
2014
Overall Tour of Szeklerland, Stefan Hristov
Stages 2 & 3, Stefan Hristov
2015
Tour of Ankara
Points classification, Onur Balkan
Stages 2 & 3, Onur Balkan
Tour of Aegean
Stage 2 , Onur Balkan
Black Sea Cycling Tour
Points classification, Onur Balkan
Stage 2, Onur Balkan
Tour of Çanakkale
Points classification, Onur Balkan
Stage 1, Onur Balkan
Tour of Mersin
Stage 2, Onur Balkan
International Tour of Torku Mevlana
Mountains classification, Onur Balkan
Overall Tour of Bulgaria, Stefan Hristov
Stage 2, Stefan Hristov
2016
Tour du Maroc
Stage 2, Onur Balkan
Tour de Serbie
Mountains classification, Stefan Hristov
Stage 2, Georgi Georgiev

National champions

2005
 Turkey Road Race Championships, Kemal Küçükbay
2006
 Turkey Road Race Championships, Bilal Akgül
 Turkey U23 Road Race Championships, Recep Ünalan
2007
 Turkey Road Race Championships, Uğur Marmara
 Turkey U23 Road Race Championships, Recep Ünalan
2008
 Turkey Road Race Championships, Orhan Şahin
 Turkey Time Trial Championships, Kemal Küçükbay
 Turkey U23 Road Race Championships, Recep Ünalan
2009
 Turkey Time Trial Championships, Muhammet Eyüp Karagöbek
2010
 Turkey Road Race Championships, Behçet Usta
 Turkey Time Trial Championships, Kemal Küçükbay
2011
 Turkey Road Race Championships, Kemal Küçükbay
 Turkey Time Trial Championships, Mert Mutlu
2012
 Turkey Time Trial Championships, Muhammet Eyüp Karagöbek
 Turkey Women Road Race Championships, Semra Yetiş
 Turkey Women Time Trial Championships, Merve Tayfun Marmara
 Turkey U23 Road Race Championships, Lütfullah Tanrıverdi
2013
 Turkey U23 Road Race Championships, Onur Balkan
 Turkey U23 Time Trial Championships, Onur Balkan
2014
 Bulgaria National Time Trial Championships, Stefan Hristov
 Turkey Women Time Trial Championships, Cansu Türkmenoğlu
 Turkey U23 Road Race Championships, Onur Balkan
2016
 Turkey Road Race Championships, Onur Balkan
 Bulgaria Road Race Championships, Georgi Georgiev

References

  1. ^ a b "Brisa / Brisaspor". Brisa. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
  2. ^ "Two Turkish cyclists will race at Rio". SporX (in Turkish). 2016-07-29. Retrieved 2016-07-29.
  3. ^ "Brisaspor 2016 Team". Brisaspor. Retrieved 2016-07-01.
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