Brisaspor is a Turkish professional

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team based in Kocaeli, and sponsored by the local Brisa Bridgestone Sabancı Lastik company of Turkish

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, which produces and distributes

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tires from

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. 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. Already in 1983, the team became Turkish champion. 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

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(MTB) competitions. Team member Bilal Akgül became the first ever Turkish Olympian cyclist participating at the mountain biking event of

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Kemal Küçükbay Kemal Küçükbay (born 23 August 1982 in Sivas, Turkey) is a Turkish former road cyclist. He participated in the men's road race at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Major results ;2005 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 7th Overall ...

took part at the men's road race event of

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. Team member Onur Balkan qualified for participation in the road race event at the

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

Team roster

As of July 2016. * G.Manager: Nadir Yavuz * Coach:

Mert Mutlu Mert Mutlu (born 9 February 1974) was a Turkish professional cyclist riding for team Brisaspor, where he also currently coaches Kemal Küçükbay. Palmarès Source: ;1999 : 1st Overall, Tour of Mevlana ;2000 : 1st Overall, Tour of Mevlan ...

Senior men's

MTB men's

Women's

Major wins

;1999 :Overall

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;2000 :Overall

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;2001 :Overall Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey,

;2003 :Overall Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey,

::Stage 5,

;2005 :Overall Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey ::Stage 3,

:2009 :Overall

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, Alexandr Dymovskikh ::Stage 3, Alexandr Dymovskikh ;2010 :Overall

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:Stage 1

;2011 :Overall Tour of Trakya,

::Stage 3,

:Overall

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::Stage 1,

:Overall Tour of Victory, Nazim Bakırcı ::Stage 3, Nazim Bakırcı ;2012 :Overall

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II, Stefan Hristov ;2013 : Tour of Bulgaria ::Stage 2, Stefan Hristov :Overall

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::Stages 2,

;2014 :Overall

, Stefan Hristov ::Stages 2 & 3a (

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), Stefan Hristov ;2015 :

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::Points classification, Onur Balkan ::Stages 2 & 3, Onur Balkan :Stage 2 Tour of Aegean, Onur Balkan : Black Sea Cycling Tour ::Points classification, Onur Balkan ::Stage 2, Onur Balkan :

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::Points classification, Onur Balkan ::Stage 1, Onur Balkan :Stage 2

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, Onur Balkan :Mountains classification International Tour of Torku Mevlana, Onur Balkan :Overall Tour of Bulgaria, Stefan Hristov ::Stage 2, Stefan Hristov ;2016 :Stage 2

, Onur Balkan :

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Mountains classification, Stefan Hristov ::Stage 2,

National champions

;2005 : Road Race Championships,

;2006 : Road Race Championships, Bilal Akgül : U23 Road Race Championships, Recep Ünalan ;2007 : Road Race Championships, Uğur Marmara : U23 Road Race Championships, Recep Ünalan ;2008 : Road Race Championships, Orhan Şahin : Time Trial Championships,

: U23 Road Race Championships, Recep Ünalan ;2009 : Time Trial Championships, Muhammet Eyüp Karagöbek ;2010 : Road Race Championships, Behçet Usta : Time Trial Championships,

;2011 : Road Race Championships,

: Time Trial Championships,

;2012 : Time Trial Championships, Muhammet Eyüp Karagöbek : Women Road Race Championships, Semra Yetiş : Women Time Trial Championships, Merve Tayfun Marmara : U23 Road Race Championships, Lütfullah Tanrıverdi ;2013 : U23 Road Race Championships, Onur Balkan : U23 Time Trial Championships, Onur Balkan ;2014 : National Time Trial Championships, Stefan Hristov : Women Time Trial Championships, Cansu Celebi : U23 Road Race Championships, Onur Balkan ;2016 : Road Race Championships, Onur Balkan : Road Race Championships, Georgi Georgiev

References

External links

Official website
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