Mustafa Sayar

Mustafa Sayar (born 22 April 1989) is a former Turkish mountain bike and road bicycle racer.

Mustafa Sayar won at the 2006 Balkan Championships gold medal in the Junior Cross Country. In the Turkish Cup, he won the title a year later. On the road Sayar won a stage of the 2007 Tour of the Black Sea and was also the overall standings decide for themselves. In the 2009 season he became Turkish champion road race in the U23 class and in the elite class, he finished the time trial in second place.

In the Tour of Turkey 2012 Sayar was made ​​161 overall with about 1:40 hours behind. In 2013, he won a mountain stage and then the total score of the Tour of Turkey. Its surprisingly strong performance prompted the German cyclist Marcel Kittel, who won three stages of the race itself, to express the short message service Twitter doubt and anger about the victory Sayars. Sayar himself emphasized in interviews that his achievements have been made clean, and that he was different than his teammate Ivaylo Gabrowski, the disqualified overall winner of the Tour of Turkey in 2012, not doped. On 15 July 2013, the Cycling Union UCI announced that Sayar was tested at the Algeria - itinerary in March positive for EPO, and suspended him provisionally. On 31 October, he was dismissed from his team and then ended his career.

Achievements - mountain bike

  • Balkan Champion - Cross Country ( Junior )
  • Turkey Turkish masters - Cross Country ( Junior )

Achievements - road

  • Turkey Turkish Champion - Road Race ( U23 )
  • A stage and General Classification Tour of Isparta
  • Appreciation and a stage Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey
  • A stage, sprint, mountain classification and 2nd place overall Tour de Blida

Team

  • 2011 Konya Torku Şeker Spor - Vivelo
  • 2012 Konya Torku Şeker Spor
  • 2013 Torku Şekerspor ( until 31.10. )
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