About Us
BAŞARI SPORTS ACADEMY
Başarı Sports Academy is a sports academy founded in Istanbul in 2007 by Vedat Timuroğlu. It runs physical preparation programmes for the BESYO and public-service examinations alongside sports schools for children, all at its own training camp — the only sports academy in Turkey to have one.
FROM 2007 TO TODAY
The academy began in 2007 in a single hall with a handful of athletes. The claim then was no different from the claim now: measure where an athlete is before telling them what to do. That was not a common approach in Turkey at the time; in most places everyone followed the same programme and the only variable was how much of it an athlete could endure.
The first growth came from exam preparation. Working with BESYO candidates made one need obvious: to build the course at true dimensions and repeat the simulation as often as required. Rented facilities could not deliver that — you cannot rehearse exam day on an hourly hall booking.
Today the academy runs thirteen separate programmes across two branches: exam preparation and sports schools. The approach has not changed. Measurement comes first, the order is not broken, and fatigue does not count as progress.
OUR MISSION
Our aim is not to increase the number of athletes but the number of people who stay in sport. Starting a sport at eight is easy; still doing it at fifteen is hard. The most common reason for quitting is not a lack of talent but a badly planned programme.
So every programme here starts from the same question: can this person carry this load safely? If the answer is no, we rewrite the programme rather than trying to fit the person to it.
TURKEY’S ONLY ACADEMY CAMP
The camp is what turned the academy from a hall into an institution. Building exam courses at true dimensions, planning camp blocks at whatever intensity is needed, and never depending on another facility’s calendar — we are the only sports academy in Turkey able to do this.
Courses at true dimensions
BESYO and physical fitness courses are built to the dimensions in the official exam guides and stay built through the season. No facility has to be arranged to run a simulation.
Camp blocks
Intensive pre-exam camp blocks are planned on the academy’s own calendar, which allows more than one session a day during those periods.
Discipline-specific areas
Sports schools use pitch and hall layouts sized to the age group, with reduced pitch and goal dimensions for younger children.
Measurement and tracking
Athletes’ development measurements are recorded regularly and shared with athletes and parents through the term.
COACHING TEAM
Full team details will be published shortly.
OUR FOUNDER
Vedat Timuroğlu founded the academy in 2007 and is still on the field as head coach. He sets out his training philosophy and the story of how the academy was built on his own page.
Meet Vedat Timuroğlu“The worst thing you can do to an athlete is ask for something they are not ready for. The second worst is not asking once they are.”
FIRST STEP: A FREE ATHLETE ASSESSMENT
We do not write a programme without measuring first. After the assessment you will see, in numbers, how far from your target you actually are.