Torku Şekerspor
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| UCI code | TRK | |||||||
| Registered | Konya, Central Anatolia, Turkey | |||||||
| Founded | 2005 | |||||||
| Discipline | Road | |||||||
| Status | UCI Continental | |||||||
| Bicycles | Salcano | |||||||
| Key personnel | ||||||||
| Team manager(s) | Mehmet Şafakcı | |||||||
| Team name history | ||||||||
| 2005 2006–2007 2008–2009 2010 2011–2012 2013– |
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Torku Şekerspor (UCI team code: TRK) is a Turkish professional cycling team, based in Konya, Central Anatolia. The team is sponsored by the local sugar and chocolate industries. It is part of the Konya Anadolu Selçukspor organisation, a Turkish TFF Second League football team.[1]
In 2011, the team became Turkey's first ever professional bicycle racing team. It has UCI Continental team status.[1]
Team member Miraç Kal qualified for participation in the road race event at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[2]
Doping
In April 2012 Ivailo Gabrovski tested positive for Erythropoietin (EPO) on Stage 3 of the 2012 Tour of Turkey, winning the stage and the overall title.[3] Gabrovski was banned for two years and had his victory stripped.[4] In May 2012 Volodymyr Bileka tested positive for Norpseudoephedrine on Stage 1 of the 2012 Tour of Trakya receiving a four-year suspension for his second doping offence.
In March 2013, Mustafa Sayar tested positive for EPO after Stage 1 of the 2013 Tour d'Algérie.[5]
Team roster
- As of 21 November 2016
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Major results
- 2011
- 1st Stage 5 Tour du Maroc, Eyüp Karagöbek
- 1st Stage 4 Tour of Trakya, Muhammet Atalay
- 1st Overall Tour of Isparta, Mustafa Sayar
- 1st Stage 1, Mustafa Sayar
- 1st Stage 3, Danail Petrov
- 1st Stage 5 Tour of Romania, Vladimir Koev
- 1st Stage 3 Tour of Cappadocia, Miraç Kal
- 1st Overall Sibiu Cycling Tour, Vladimir Koev
- 1st Stage 3, Vladimir Koev
- 1st Stage 4 Tour of Marmara, Eyüp Karagöbek
- 1st Stage 4 Tour of Alanya, Hüseyin Özcan
- 2012
- 1st Stage 4 Azerbaijan Tour, Yuriy Metlushenko
- 1st Overall Tour of Trakya, Yuriy Metlushenko
- 1st Stages 1, 2 & 4, Yuriy Metlushenko
- 1st Stage 3 Baltic Chain Tour, Yuriy Metlushenko
- 1st Stage 4 Tour of Taihu Lake, Yuriy Metlushenko
- 2013
- 1st Stage 2 Tour d'Algérie, Sergiy Grechyn
- 1st Stage 1 Tour de Blida, Mustafa Sayar
- 1st Stage 6 Tour du Maroc, Ahmet Örken[6]
- 1st Overall Tour d'Azerbaïdjan, Sergiy Grechyn
- 1st Stage 2, Sergiy Grechyn
- 1st Stages 4 & 6 Tour de Serbie, Ahmet Örken[7][8]
- 1st Stage 2 Tour of Qinghai Lake, David de la Fuente
- 1st Overall Tour of Taihu Lake, Yuriy Metlushenko
- 1st Stages 1, 2, 3, 4 & 9, Yuriy Metlushenko
- 2014
- 1st Stage 9 Tour of Qinghai Lake, Ahmet Örken
- 2015
- 1st Overall Tour of Çanakkale, Ahmet Akdilek
- 1st Prologue, Ahmet Akdilek
- 1st Stage 3, Ismail Aksoy
- 1st Overall Tour du Maroc, Tomasz Marczyński
- 1st Stages 1, 4 & 7, Tomasz Marczyński
- 1st Stage 2, Ahmet Örken
- 1st Overall Tour of Black Sea, Tomasz Marczyński
- 1st Stage 1, Tomasz Marczyński
- 1st Stage 3, Ahmet Örken
- 1st Stage 3 Tour of Iran, Ismail Aksoy
- 1st Overall Tour of Ankara, Nazim Bakırcı
- 1st Stage 1, Nazim Bakırcı
- 1st Stage 4, Feritcan Şamlı
- 1st Overall International Tour of Torku Mevlana, Ahmet Örken
- 1st Prologue, Stages 2 & 3, Ahmet Örken
- 1st Overall Tour of Aegean, Ahmet Örken
- 1st Prologue & Stage 1, Ahmet Örken
- 1st Stage 3, Rasim Reis
- 2016
- 1st Overall Tour of Mersin, Nazim Bakırcı
- 1st Stage 1 Tour of Ankara, Feritcan Şamlı
- 1st Stage 2 Tour of Ankara, Mustafa Sayar
- 1st Stage 3 Tour of Ankara, Fatih Keleş
National Champions
- 2011
Bulgaria Road Race, Danail Petrov
- 2012
Turkey Road Race, Miraç Kal- Turkey Under-23 Time Trial, Feritcan Şamlı
- 2013
- Turkey Road Race, Nazim Bakırcı
- Turkey Time Trial, Bekir Baki Akırşan
Kazakhstan Time Trial, Andrey Mizurov
- 2014
- Turkey Road Race, Feritcan Şamlı
- Turkey Time Trial, Ahmet Örken
- Turkey Under-23 Time Trial, Alihan Demirbağ
- 2015
- Turkey Road Race, Ahmet Akdilek
- Turkey Time Trial, Ahmet Örken
Poland Road Race, Tomasz Marczyński- Turkey Under-23 Road Race, Batuhan Özgür
- Turkey Under-23 Time Trial, Halil İbrahim Dilek
- 2016
- Turkey Time Trial, Ahmet Örken
References
- 1 2 "Bisiklet" (in Turkish). Konya Torku Şekerspor. Retrieved 2012-07-16.
- ↑ "İşte Londra'da pedal çevirecek isimler". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2012-07-10. Retrieved 2012-07-16.
- ↑ http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/gabrovski-with-adverse-analytical-finding-for-epo
- ↑ http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/gabrovski-given-two-years-for-epo-use
- ↑ http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/tour-of-turkey-winner-provisionally-suspended-for-doping-violation
- ↑ "Tour du Maroc 2013 - 6th Stage". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 2013-06-14.
- ↑ "2013 53rd Tour de Serbie (2.2) Stage 4 - Kladovo-Pozarvac". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 2013-06-14.
- ↑ "2013 53rd Tour de Serbie (2.2) Stage 6 - S.Mitrovica- Belgrade". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 2013-06-16.
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