Cycling team
Cycling team
Torku Şekerspor Team information UCI code TRK Registered Konya ,Central Anatolia ,Turkey Founded 2005 Disbanded 2018 Discipline Road Status UCI Continental Bicycles Salcano Key personnel Team manager Branko Filip Team name history 2005
Hemus 1896 Aurora 2000 Berchi
Torku Şekerspor (UCI team code:TRK ) was a Turkish professionalcycling team , based inKonya ,Central Anatolia .They folded after the 2018 season. The team was sponsored by the local sugar and chocolate industries. It is part of theKonya Anadolu Selçukspor organisation, a TurkishTFF Second League football team.[ 1]
In 2011, the team became Turkey's first ever professional bicycle racing team. It hasUCI Continental team status.[ 1]
Team memberMiraç Kal qualified for participation in theroad race event at the2012 Summer Olympics .[ 2]
Team memberAhmet Örken qualified for participation in thetime trial event at the2016 Summer Olympics .[ 3]
In April 2012Ivailo Gabrovski tested positive forErythropoietin (EPO) on Stage 3 of the2012 Tour of Turkey , winning the stage and the overall title.[ 4] [ 5] Volodymyr Bileka tested positive forNorpseudoephedrine on Stage 1 of the 2012Tour 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 2013Tour d'Algérie .[ 6]
2010 Overall,Romania Tour of Szeklerland ,Evgeniy Gerganov Stage 7Tour of Bulgaria ,Evgeniy Gerganov OverallThe Paths of King Nikola ,Vladimir Koev Stage 1,Vladimir Koev 2011 Stage 5Tour du Maroc ,Eyüp Karagöbek Stage 4Tour of Trakya ,Muhammet Atalay OverallTour of Isparta ,Mustafa Sayar Stage 1,Mustafa Sayar Stage 3,Danail Petrov Stage 5Tour of Romania ,Vladimir Koev Stage 3Tour of Cappadocia ,Miraç Kal OverallSibiu Cycling Tour ,Vladimir Koev Stage 3,Vladimir Koev Stage 4Tour of Marmara ,Eyüp Karagöbek Stage 4Tour of Alanya ,Hüseyin Özcan 2012 Stage 4Azerbaijan Tour ,Yuriy Metlushenko OverallTour of Trakya ,Yuriy Metlushenko Stages 1, 2 & 4,Yuriy Metlushenko Stage 3Baltic Chain Tour ,Yuriy Metlushenko Stage 4Tour of Taihu Lake ,Yuriy Metlushenko 2013 Stage 2Tour d'Algérie ,Sergiy Grechyn Stage 1Tour de Blida ,Mustafa Sayar Stage 6Tour du Maroc ,Ahmet Örken [ 7] OverallTour d'Azerbaïdjan ,Sergiy Grechyn Stage 2,Sergiy Grechyn Stages 4 & 6Tour de Serbie ,Ahmet Örken [ 8] [ 9] Stage 2Tour of Qinghai Lake ,David de la Fuente OverallTour of Taihu Lake ,Yuriy Metlushenko Stages 1, 2, 3, 4 & 9,Yuriy Metlushenko 2014 Stage 9Tour of Qinghai Lake ,Ahmet Örken 2015 OverallTour of Çanakkale ,Ahmet Akdilek Prologue,Ahmet Akdilek Stage 3,İsmail Akşoy OverallTour du Maroc ,Tomasz Marczyński Stages 1, 4 & 7,Tomasz Marczyński Stage 2,Ahmet Örken OverallTour of Black Sea ,Tomasz Marczyński Stage 1,Tomasz Marczyński Stage 3,Ahmet Örken Stage 3Tour of Iran ,İsmail Akşoy OverallTour of Ankara ,Nazim Bakırcı Stage 1,Nazim Bakırcı Stage 4,Feritcan Şamlı OverallInternational Tour of Torku Mevlana ,Ahmet Örken Prologue, Stages 2 & 3,Ahmet Örken OverallTour of Aegean ,Ahmet Örken Prologue & Stage 1,Ahmet Örken Stage 3,Rasim Reis 2016 OverallTour of Mersin ,Nazim Bakırcı Stage 1Tour of Ankara ,Feritcan Şamlı Stage 2Tour of Ankara ,Mustafa Sayar Stage 3Tour of Ankara ,Fatih Keleş 2017 Les Challenges de la Marche Verte GP Oued Eddahab ,Ivan Balykin Les Challenges de la Marche Verte GP Al Massira ,Ahmet Örken Stage 2Tour of Ankara ,Ivan Balykin Stage 2b (ITT )Tour of Bihor ,Ivan Balykin Stage 2Tour de Serbie ,Luca Chirico Stage 3Tour de Serbie ,Ahmet Örken Stages 4 & 10Tour of Qinghai Lake ,Ahmet Örken 2018 OverallTour of Mediterrennean ,Onur Balkan Stages 2 & 3,Onur Balkan OverallTour of Cartier ,Cristian Raileanu Stage 2,Cristian Raileanu Stage 2Tour of Fatih Sultan Mehmet ,Batuhan Ozgur OverallTour of Mesopotamia ,Nazim Bakırcı Stage 1,Ivan Balykin Stage 2,Nazim Bakırcı Stage 4,Onur Balkan OverallTour of Mevlana ,Ivan Balykin Stage 2,Ivan Balykin Stage 9Tour of Qinghai Lake ,Onur Balkan Stage 3Tour of Cappadocia ,Onur Balkan Stage 5Tour of Romania ,Onur Balkan Stage 3Tour of Black Sea ,Batuhan Ozgur 2009 Road Race ,Miraç Kal 2011 Danail Petrov 2012 Road Race ,Miraç Kal Under-23 Time Trial ,Feritcan Şamlı 2013 Road Race ,Nazim Bakırcı Time Trial ,Bekir Baki Akırşan Time Trial ,Andrey Mizurov 2014 Road Race ,Feritcan Şamlı Time Trial ,Ahmet Örken Under-23 Time Trial ,Alihan Demirbağ 2015 Road Race ,Ahmet Akdilek Time Trial ,Ahmet Örken Road Race ,Tomasz Marczyński Under-23 Road Race ,Batuhan Özgür Under-23 Time Trial ,Halil İbrahim Dilek 2016 Time Trial ,Ahmet Örken 2018 Road Race ,Onur Balkan 
Bulgaria Road Race,Danail Petrov
TurkeyRoad Race,Miraç Kal
KazakhstanTime Trial,Andrey Mizurov
PolandRoad Race,Tomasz Marczyński
