Mustafa Sayar (born 22 April 1989) is a Turkish professional cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team . In 2013 he was suspended following his testing positive for EPO.

Career

In 2013, he won the sixth stage of the Tour of Turkey by powering away on the climb to

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in an improbably large gear, leading to disbelief and insinuations from the live TV commentary team and other riders in the race, including Marcel Kittel, who tweeted that he was "not often in my life so angry about a result of someone else". Sayar was the first Turkish rider to provisionally win a stage in the Tour since 2008. With that result, he took the lead in the overall classification. He successfully defended the leader's jersey over the next two stages and won the race.

Doping suspension

On 15 July 2013 he was suspended, following his testing positive for EPO during the Tour d'Algérie in March. As a result, he lost his overall victory in the Tour of Turkey, which went to

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. Sayar retired from the sport in November 2013, but returned to competition after completion of the ban.

Major results

;2009 : 1st Maillot Turkey

Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships : 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships ;2010 : 2nd Overall Tour of Victory : 6th Overall Tour of Trakya ;2011 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Tour of Isparta ::1st Prologue : 4th Time trial, National Road Championships : 4th Overall Tour of Alanya : 4th Overall Tour of Trakya : 5th Overall

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: 5th Overall Tour of Marmara ;2012 : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships ;2013 : ~~1st Overall Tour of Turkey~~ ::~~1st Stage 6~~ : ~~2nd Time trial, National Road Championships~~ : 2nd Overall
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::~~1st Mountains classification~~ ::~~1st Points classification~~ ::~~1st Stage 1~~ : ~~2nd Overall Tour d'Algérie~~ ::~~1st Mountains classification~~ : 5th
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;2016 : 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships : 3rd Overall

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::1st Stage 3 : 4th Overall Tour of Mersin ;2018 : 2nd Overall

::1st Stage 2 : 3rd Overall Tour of Black Sea : 3rd Road race, National Road Championships : 7th Overall Tour of Mesopotamia ;2019 : 1st

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: 4th Overall Tour of Mesopotamia ;2020 : National Road Championships ::1st Maillot Turkey

Time trial ::7th Road race ;2021 : 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships : 10th

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;2022 : 1st Maillot Turkey

Road race, National Road Championships : 3rd

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: 4th Grand Prix Gündoğmuş : 9th Overall Tour of Turkey

References

External links

* * 1989 births Living people Turkish male cyclists Turkish sportspeople in doping cases Doping cases in cycling European Games competitors for Turkey Cyclists at the 2019 European Games 21st-century Turkish people Place of birth missing (living people) {{Turkey-cycling-bio-stub