UCI code TRK Status UCI Continental Team manager(s) Branko Filip Founded 2005 Bicycle Salcano | Discipline Road Bicycles Salcano Manager Branko Filip Base Konya | |
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Registered Konya, Central Anatolia, Turkey | ||
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.
In 2011, the team became Turkey's first ever professional bicycle racing team. It has UCI Continental team status.
Team member Miraç Kal qualified for participation in the road race event at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Team member Ahmet Örken qualified for participation in the time trial event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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. Gabrovski was banned for two years and had his victory stripped. 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.
