Torku Şekerspor
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| UCI code | TRK | |||||||
| Registered | Konya, Central Anatolia, Turkey | |||||||
| Discipline | Road | |||||||
| Status | UCI Continental | |||||||
| Bicycles | Salcano | |||||||
| Key personnel | ||||||||
| Team manager(s) | Mehmet Şafakcı | |||||||
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| 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 Torku Şeker Sport Club, a Turkish Second League side.[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 27 April 2015.
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Major Results
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- 2011
- 1st
Bulgaria Road Race Championships, Danail Petrov - 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
Turkey Road Race Championships, Miraç Kal - 1st Stage 4 Azerbaijan Tour, Yuri Metlushenko
- 1st Overall Tour of Trakya, Yuri Metlushenko
- 1st Stages 1, 2 & 4, Yuri Metlushenko
- 1st Stage 3 Baltic Chain Tour, Yuri Metlushenko
- 1st Stage 4 Tour of Taihu Lake, Yuri Metlushenko
- 2013
- 1st
Kazakhstan Time Trial Championships, Andrey Mizurov - 1st Turkey Time Trial Championships, Bekir Akırşan
- 1st Turkey Road Race Championships, Nazim Bakırcı
- 1st Stage 2 Tour d'Algérie, Sergiy Gretchyn
- 1st Stage 1 Tour de Blida, Mustafa Sayar
- 1st Stage 6 Tour du Maroc, Ahmet Örken[6]
- 1st Overall Azerbaijan International Cycling Tour, Sergiy Gretchyn
- 1st Stage 2, Sergiy Gretchyn
- 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 Turkey Time Trial Championships, Ahmet Örken
- 1st Turkey Road Race Championships, Feritcam Samli
- 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 Marczynski
- 1st Stages 1, 4 & 7, Tomasz Marczynski
- 1st Stage 2, Ahmet Örken
- 1st Overall Tour of Black Sea, Tomasz Marczynski
- 1st Stage 1, Tomasz Marczynski
- 1st Stage 3, Ahmet Örken
- 1st Stage 3 Tour of Iran, Ismail Aksoy
- 1st Overall Tour of Ankara, Nazim Bakirci
- 1st Stage 1, Nazim Bakirci
- 1st Stage 4, Ferit Samli
- 1st Turkey Time Trial Championships, Ahmet Örken
- 1st Turkey Road Race Championships, Ahmet Akdilek
- 1st
Poland Road Race Championships, Tomasz Marczyński - 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
References
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- ↑ 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
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