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
MTB men's
Women's
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 Road Race Championships, Kemal Küçükbay
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, Kemal Küçükbay U23 Road Race Championships, Recep Ünalan
2009 Time Trial Championships, Muhammet Eyüp Karagöbek
2010 Road Race Championships, Behçet Usta Time Trial Championships, Kemal Küçükbay
2011 Road Race Championships, Kemal Küçükbay Time Trial Championships, Mert Mutlu
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