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Mustafa Sayar (born 22 April 1989) is a Turkish professional cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team . In 2013 he was suspended following his testing positive for EPO.


Career

In 2013, he won the sixth stage of the
Tour of Turkey The Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey ( tr, Cumhurbaşkanlığı Bisiklet Turu) is a professional road bicycle racing stage race held annually in Turkey since 1963. In 2005 the race became part of the UCI Europe Tour, rated as a 2.2 even ...
by powering away on the climb to Selçuk in an improbably large gear, leading to disbelief and insinuations from the live TV commentary team and other riders in the race, including Marcel Kittel, who tweeted that he was "not often in my life so angry about a result of someone else". Sayar was the first Turkish rider to provisionally win a stage in the Tour since 2008. With that result, he took the lead in the overall classification. He successfully defended the leader's jersey over the next two stages and won the race.


Doping suspension

On 15 July 2013 he was suspended, following his testing positive for EPO during the
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in March. As a result, he lost his overall victory in the Tour of Turkey, which went to Natnael Berhane. Sayar retired from the sport in November 2013, but returned to competition after completion of the ban.


Major results

;2009 : 1st Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships : 2nd
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, National Road Championships ;2010 : 2nd Overall
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: 6th Overall
Tour of Trakya The Tour of Trakya ( tr, Uluslararası Trakya Bisiklet Turu) is an international road cycling race organized by the Turkish Cycling Federation at East Thrace in northwestern Turkey. It is part of the UCI Europe Tour having a rating of 2.2. The ...
;2011 : 1st Overall
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::1st Prologue : 4th
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, National Road Championships : 4th Overall
Tour of Alanya The Tour of Alanya ( tr, Uluslararası Alanya Bisiklet Turu) is an international road cycling race organized by the Turkish Cycling Federation at Alanya, Antalya Province in southern Turkey. It is part of the UCI Europe Tour having a rating of 2 ...
: 4th Overall
Tour of Trakya The Tour of Trakya ( tr, Uluslararası Trakya Bisiklet Turu) is an international road cycling race organized by the Turkish Cycling Federation at East Thrace in northwestern Turkey. It is part of the UCI Europe Tour having a rating of 2.2. The ...
: 5th Overall Tour of Cappadocia : 5th Overall
Tour of Marmara The Tour of Marmara ( tr, Uluslararası Marmara Bisiklet Turu) is an international road cycling race organized by the Turkish Cycling Federation at towns in eastern Marmara Region of Turkey. It is part of the UCI Europe Tour having a rating of 2.2 ...
;2012 : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships ;2013 : 1st Overall
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 ::1st Stage 6 : 2nd
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, National Road Championships : 2nd Overall
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 ::1st Mountains classification ::1st Points classification ::1st Stage 1 : 2nd Overall
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 ::1st Mountains classification : 5th Circuit d'Alger : 9th Grand Prix of Donetsk ;2016 : 3rd
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, National Road Championships : 3rd Overall Tour of Ankara ::1st Stage 3 : 4th Overall
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;2018 : 2nd Overall Tour of Cappadocia ::1st Stage 2 : 3rd Overall
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: 3rd Road race, National Road Championships : 7th Overall
Tour of Mesopotamia Tour of Mesopotamia is a multi-day road cycling race held annually in Turkey since 2018. It is part of UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cyclis ...
;2019 : 1st Bursa Yıldırım Bayezıt Race : 1st Mountains classification
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: National Road Championships ::3rd
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::5th Road race : 3rd Bursa Orhangazi Race : 4th Overall
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;2020 : National Road Championships ::1st
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::7th Road race ;2021 : 3rd
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, National Road Championships : 10th Grand Prix Kayseri ;2022 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 3rd Grand Prix Mediterranean : 4th
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: 9th Overall
Tour of Turkey The Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey ( tr, Cumhurbaşkanlığı Bisiklet Turu) is a professional road bicycle racing stage race held annually in Turkey since 1963. In 2005 the race became part of the UCI Europe Tour, rated as a 2.2 even ...


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* * 1989 births Living people Turkish male cyclists Turkish sportspeople in doping cases Doping cases in cycling European Games competitors for Turkey Cyclists at the 2019 European Games 21st-century Turkish people Place of birth missing (living people) {{Turkey-cycling-bio-stub