Brisaspor

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

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
 * Jersey polkadot.svg 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