Kocaeli Büyükşehir Belediyesi Kağıt Spor Kulübü

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The Kocaeli Büyükşehir Belediyesi Kağıt Spor Kulübü, aka Kocaeli BB Kağıtspor, is a multi-sports club sponsored by the Metropolitan Municipality of Kocaeli in Turkey. It was originally founded in 1937 as "İzmit Kağıtspor", a sports club of the state-owned SEKA Cellulose and Paper Works in Izmit, Kocaeli.[1] Club colors are blue and white. Current club president is Fahrettin Kandemir, who is also the chairman of the Turkish Ice Hockey Federation.[2]

Already in the beginning, İzmit Kağıtspor operated also branches like rowing and sailing and won also many international titles in athletics, sport wrestling and boxing.[3] Merged in 1987 into "Kocaeli Belediyespor" and renamed, the club expanded fast since then and is active in 30 sports branches with a total of 2,453 athletes as of 2007, making it one of the biggest sports clubs of Turkey. Its amateur and professional individual sports people and teams of various branches are very successful at domestic and international events as well. The total number of sports people licensed by the club competing for Turkey's national teams amounted to 155 in 2007. The 2007-2008 budget of the club is TRY 2.2m (about US$ 1.76m). Current club president is Fahrettin Kandemir, who is also the chairman of the Turkish Ice Hockey Federation.[2]

[edit] Branches

Some of the 30 branches the club sponsors are:

[edit] Notables

Individuals
  • Hülya Baştuğ - world-class female mountain runner (2007)[4]
  • Hüsniye Gürel - 2008 European female youth karate champion[10]
  • Tuğba Karademir - ever first Turkish Olympic female figure skater (2006)[5]
  • Sibel Şimşek - 2007 European silver medalist in women's weightlifting[13]
  • Gülnaz Yanık - 2007 European female junior weightlifting champion[12]
  • Tuba Yenen - 2008 European female youth karate champion[9]
Teams

[edit] References

  1. ^ Necati Uyar (2005-01-25). Kent Yazıları - Yönet, batır, kapat... (Turkish).
  2. ^ a b "Kocaeli Büyükşehir Belediyesi'nin kulübü Kağıtspor, 'sporcu fabrikası' gibi çalışıyor", Zaman, 2007-10-05. (Turkish) 
  3. ^ Timur Soykan. Bir tarih kapanıyor: SEKA (Turkish).
  4. ^ a b "Kağıtsporlu Hülya, Dünya İkincisi Oldu", Özgür Kocaeli, 2007-09-19. (Turkish) 
  5. ^ a b "Tuğba, Avrupa'da Gururumuz Oldu", Özgür Kocaeli, 2007-01-29. (Turkish) 
  6. ^ "Buz Sporunda Artık Türkler de Var", Özgür Kocaeli, 2007-04-30. (Turkish) 
  7. ^ a b "Buz Hokeyinde Avrupa Sınavı Eylülde", Özgür Kocaeli, 2007-07-05. (Turkish) 
  8. ^ a b "Büyükşehir Kağıt Karatede Avrupa Şampiyonu Oldu", Özgür Kocaeli, 2007-06-11. (Turkish) 
  9. ^ a b "Tuba Yenen de Avrupa Şampiyonu", Özgür Kocaeli, 2008-02-20. (Turkish) 
  10. ^ a b "Büyükşehir’e Altın Madalya", Özgür Kocaeli, 2008-02-17. (Turkish) 
  11. ^ "12’den Vurmak İçin Yarıştılar", Özgür Kocaeli, 2007-05-07. (Turkish) 
  12. ^ a b "Yanık, İtalya’dan 3 Altın ile Döndü", Özgür Kocaeli, 2007-09-01. (Turkish) 
  13. ^ a b "Şimşek, Avrupa 2’ncisi Oldu", Özgür Kocaeli, 2007-04-20. (Turkish)