# Brisaspor

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.
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 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.
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

### Senior men's

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

### MTB men's

| | Rider | Date of birth |
| Bilal Akgül (TUR) | Bilal Akgül (TUR) | (1982-10-13) October 13, 1982 (age 41) |
| Halil İbrahim Doğan (TUR) | Halil İbrahim Doğan (TUR) | |
| Sinan İli (TUR) | Sinan İli (TUR) | |
| | Rider |
| Abdülkadir Kelleci (TUR) | Abdülkadir Kelleci (TUR) |
| Mustafa Köklü (TUR) | Mustafa Köklü (TUR) |
| Yunus Emre Yılmaz (TUR) | Yunus Emre Yılmaz (TUR) |

### Women's

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

## Major wins
### 1999

    Overall Tour of Mevlana, Mert Mutlu

### 2000

    Overall Tour of Mevlana, Mert Mutlu

### 2001

    Overall Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey, Mert Mutlu

### 2003

    Overall Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey, Mert Mutlu
       Stage 5, Mert Mutlu

### 2005

    Overall Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey
       Stage 3, Mert Mutlu
    2009
    OverallTour du Maroc, Alexandr Dymovskikh
       Stage 3, Alexandr Dymovskikh

### 2010

    Overall Tour of Marmara, Kemal Küçükbay
    Stage 1 Tour of Marmara, Mert Mutlu

### 2011

    Overall Tour of Trakya, Kemal Küçükbay
       Stage 3, 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 Petrov Georgiev
       Stages 2, Georgi Petrov Georgiev

### 2014

    Overall Tour of Szeklerland, Stefan Hristov
       Stages 2 & 3a (ITT), Stefan Hristov

### 2015

    Tour of Ankara
       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
    Tour of Çanakkale
       Points classification, Onur Balkan
       Stage 1, Onur Balkan
    Stage 2 Tour of Mersin, Onur Balkan
    Mountains classification International Tour of Torku Mevlana, Onur Balkan
    Overall Tour of Bulgaria, Stefan Hristov
       Stage 2, Stefan Hristov

### 2016

    Stage 2 Tour du Maroc, Onur Balkan
    Tour de Serbie
       Mountains classification, Stefan Hristov
       Stage 2, Georgi Petrov 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 Celebi
    Turkey U23 Road Race Championships, Onur Balkan

### 2016

    Turkey Road Race Championships, Onur Balkan
    Bulgaria Road Race Championships, Georgi Georgiev