Turkish motorcycle racer

Toprak Razgatlıoğlu

Toprak Razgatlıoğlu is a Turkish motorcycle road racer who currently races for Prima Pramac Yamaha MotoGP in the MotoGP World Championship. Razgatlıoğlu currently has three Superbike World Championship titles: 2021 with the Yamaha factory Superbike team, ending Jonathan Rea's six-year reign, 2024 and 2025 with the BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team, the manufacturer's first two titles. He is the first Turkish Superbike World Champion and the rider with the most wins for both Yamaha and BMW in the championship, with 37 and 39 total victories, respectively.

Born

1996

October 16

Died

Living

Era

1990s

Country

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Toprak, in brief

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Key dates

1996 Born

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The world in 1996

When Toprak arrived

april 13 Two women and four children are killed after an Israeli helicopter fires rockets at an ambulance in Mansouri, Lebanon.
april 18 The Israeli military commits the Qana massacre in a deliberate shelling of a United Nations compound near the village of Qana in southern Lebanon, killing 106 Lebanese civilians who were taking shelter there and wounding over 100 more.
april 21 Four people are killed and 75 are injured in a train accident in Jokela, Finland.
april 24 In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Bob Weir 1947–2026 American musician, (born 1947) Charles Colson 1931– American lawyer and politician (died 2012) Edward Ardizzone 1900– Vietnamese-English author and illustrator (died 1979) Enver Hoxha 1908–1985 Albanian educator and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Albania (born 1908) Fernanda Montenegro 1929– Brazilian actress Flea 1962– Australian-American bass player, songwriter, and actor Francis Lubbock 1815–1905 American colonel and politician, 9th Governor of Texas (born 1815) Hema Malini 1948– Indian actress, director, producer, and politician Inna 1986– Romanian singer

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1996

Aaron Ekblad 1996– Canadian ice hockey player Abigail Breslin 1996– American actress Austin Abrams 1996– American actor Ben Simmons 1996– Australian basketball player Caeleb Dressel 1996– American swimmer Emmanuel Mudiay 1996– Congolese-American basketball player Jacob Batalon 1996– Filipino-American actor Joshua Wong 1996– Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Kevin Fiala 1996– Swiss ice hockey player

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