Brisaspor

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Brisaspor
Team information
Based Kocaeli,  Turkey
Founded 1982 (1982)
Discipline Road, mountain
Team name history
Lassaspor

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.

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

Team roster

As of April 2013.[2]

Senior men's

Rider Date of birth
 Kemal Küçükbay (TUR) (1982-08-23) August 23, 1982
 Uğur Marmara (TUR)
 Ali Rıza Tanrıverdi (TUR)
 Stefan Histrov (BUL) (1985-07-12) July 12, 1985
 Gökhan Hasta (TUR)
 Georgi Georgiev (BUL) (1985-08-03) August 3, 1985
Rider Date of birth
 Feritcan Şamlı (TUR)
 Lütfullah Tanrıverdi (TUR)
 Serkan Balkan (TUR)
 Recep Ünalan (TUR) (1985-04-09) April 9, 1985
 Aleksandar Aleksiev (BUL)
 Adil Kurkut (TUR)

MTB men's

Rider Date of birth
 Bilal Akgül (TUR)
 Abdülkadir Kelleci (TUR)

Women's

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

Former cyclists

  • Semra Yetiş (born 1987), female road cyclist and mountain biker

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Brisa / Brisaspor". Brisa. Retrieved 2013-00-01. 
  2. ↑ "Brisaspor 2013 Kadrosunu Tanıttı - Hedef Sağlam Yapıda Continental Takım Olmak". Cycling tr. Retrieved 2013-05-01. 

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