Kocaeli Büyükşehir Belediyesi Kağıt Spor Kulübü

The Kocaeli Büyükşehir Belediyesi Kağıt Spor Kulübü, aka Kocaeli BB Kağıtspor, is a multi-sports club sponsored by the Metropolitan Municipality of Kocaeli in Turkey. It was founded in 1937 as "İzmit Kağıtspor", a sports club of the state-owned SEKA Cellulose and Paper Works in Izmit, Kocaeli.[1] Club colors are blue and white. Current club president is Dr. Ali Yeşildal, who is also the chairman of the Turkish Ice Hockey Federation.[2]

Formation1937 (1937)
TypeNon-profit
PurposeSport: football, volleyball, basketball, wrestling, weightlifting, martial arts, athletics, ice hockey
HeadquartersSEKASEM
Location
President
Dr. Ali Yeşildal

Since the beginning, İzmit Kağıtspor has operated branches like rowing and sailing and won also many international titles in athletics, wrestling, and boxing.[3] The club merged in 1987 into "Kocaeli Belediyespor" and was renamed. It has expanded quickly since then and is active in 30 sports branches with a total of 2,453 athletes as of 2007, making it one of the biggest sports clubs of Turkey. Its amateur and professional individual sports people and teams of various branches are very successful at domestic and international events as well. The total number of sports people licensed by the club competing for Turkey's national teams amounted to 155 in 2007. The 2007-2008 budget of the club is TRY 2.2m (about US$1.76m).

Branches

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Some of the 30 branches the club sponsors are:

Notables

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Athletics

Boxing

Judo

Karate

Taekwondo

  • Bahri Tanrıkulu (born 1980), 2001, 2007 and 2009 world champion in 87 kg.[12] 2000, 2002 European and 2005 Universiade champion.
  • Hatice Kübra Yangın (born 1989), 2011 world female bronze medalist in 53 kg. 2008 and 2010 European, 2011 Summer Universiade champion

Weightlifting

Other sports

References

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  1. ^ Necati Uyar (2005-01-25). "Kent Yazıları - Yönet, batır, kapat..." Evrensel (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 2008-04-21. Retrieved 2008-05-18.
  2. ^ "Kocaeli Büyükşehir Belediyesi'nin kulübü Kağıtspor, 'sporcu fabrikası' gibi çalışıyor" (in Turkish). Zaman. 2007-10-05. Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2008-05-18.
  3. ^ Timur Soykan. "Bir tarih kapanıyor: SEKA". Tüm Gazeteler (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2008-05-18.
  4. ^ a b "Kağıtsporlu Hülya, Dünya İkincisi Oldu" (in Turkish). Özgür Kocaeli. 2007-09-19. Archived from the original on 2013-04-18.
  5. ^ a b "Tuğba, Avrupa'da Gururumuz Oldu" (in Turkish). Özgür Kocaeli. 2007-01-29. Archived from the original on 2013-04-18.
  6. ^ "Buz Sporunda Artık Türkler de Var" (in Turkish). Özgür Kocaeli. 2007-04-30. Archived from the original on 2012-09-07. Retrieved 2008-05-18.
  7. ^ a b "Buz Hokeyinde Avrupa Sınavı Eylülde" (in Turkish). Özgür Kocaeli. 2007-07-05. Archived from the original on 2013-04-18.
  8. ^ a b "Büyükşehir Kağıt Karatede Avrupa Şampiyonu Oldu" (in Turkish). Özgür Kocaeli. 2007-06-11. Archived from the original on 2013-04-18.
  9. ^ "Tuba Yenen de Avrupa Şampiyonu" (in Turkish). Özgür Kocaeli. 2008-02-20. Archived from the original on 2013-04-18.
  10. ^ a b "Büyükşehir'e Altın Madalya" (in Turkish). Özgür Kocaeli. 2008-02-17. Archived from the original on 2013-04-18.
  11. ^ "12'den Vurmak İçin Yarıştılar" (in Turkish). Özgür Kocaeli. 2007-05-07. Archived from the original on 2007-05-09. Retrieved 2008-05-18.
  12. ^ a b "Taekwondocular Balkan Şampiyonu". Gölcük Haber (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 2010-12-16. Retrieved 2011-05-22.
  13. ^ a b "Yanık, İtalya'dan 3 Altın ile Döndü" (in Turkish). Özgür Kocaeli. 2007-09-01. Archived from the original on 2013-04-18.
  14. ^ "Şimşek, Avrupa 2'ncisi Oldu" (in Turkish). Özgür Kocaeli. 2007-04-20. Archived from the original on 2013-04-18. Retrieved 2008-05-18.
  15. ^ a b c "Karatecilerin hedefi Avrupa Şampiyonası" (in Turkish). 41 Saat Haber. 2009-05-31. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  16. ^ "Karetede 3 Avrupa şampiyonluğu". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2013-05-11. Retrieved 2013-05-12.
  17. ^ "Milli halterci Özlem Becerikli'den bronz madalya". Türkiye Gazetesi (in Turkish). 2012-09-02. Archived from the original on 2012-09-03. Retrieved 2012-09-02.
  18. ^ "Potadan Haberler-Dişi Kartal'dan dört imza" (in Turkish). Fto aç. 2004-07-17. Retrieved 2011-04-03.