Sabri Rasim is the legend of the Turkish cycling and spent most of his career in Manisaspor, became a major element in the team's rise from nowhere to the Zyte Division. Raise in the flat Manisa, his specialization is flat road sprints where he can upset much stronger riders than him.
Maxed at the age of 24, he piled up various good results early in his career. His first tour appearance was in the 18th edition of the Perm Tour, his good performance in the hilly Ochjor stage did not bring a SC win or jersey to him but a GC result which was the earliest sign of his versatility.
The OCM world noticed his tour success after he won the fifth edition of the fourth division American tour, Race of the Minutemen. He was the runner up Lexington-Laconia and an excellent sprint at the closing stage brough him not only his first tour stage win but also the Sprinters' Jersey. This season he go...
Read moreSabri Rasim is the legend of the Turkish cycling and spent most of his career in Manisaspor, became a major element in the team's rise from nowhere to the Zyte Division. Raise in the flat Manisa, his specialization is flat road sprints where he can upset much stronger riders than him.
Maxed at the age of 24, he piled up various good results early in his career. His first tour appearance was in the 18th edition of the Perm Tour, his good performance in the hilly Ochjor stage did not bring a SC win or jersey to him but a GC result which was the earliest sign of his versatility.
The OCM world noticed his tour success after he won the fifth edition of the fourth division American tour, Race of the Minutemen. He was the runner up Lexington-Laconia and an excellent sprint at the closing stage brough him not only his first tour stage win but also the Sprinters' Jersey. This season he got 12 results including 5 wins, probably the most successful in his career. He became the first sprinter to get the jersey since Goddard Scothern won it in all of the prior editions.
Next season, his team could not produce good results and ended up in division 5. However, this gave him an opportunity to race in Fast on Wheels tours. Where a stage win was not the biggest accomplishment since he ended up 6th in GC and won another jersey by winning the SC.
In the last three seasons he has been racing in Zyte with some of the best sprinters around the world. He finished 22nd edition of the Lappi Sea GP as fourth.
He became the role model for the oth Turks since he has been racing for his National Team, too. He is the rider with most participations currently at 22 but expected to rise until the end of his career. In four seasons he has had two top 3 results in WT B races.
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