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Bicycle Therapeutics win Granta Park Football Tournament (Oct 2025)

Posted in English, Personal, tagged , , , , on 02/10/2025| Leave a Comment »

Victorious Bicycle Therapeutics team in the final (From left): Mesut Erzurumluoglu, Steve Kouokam, Gavin Bennett, John May, Richard Stock (Captain & GK), Ashley Griffin, Martin Wilkinson.
(Not in the photo: James Morgan, Nikola Sarnowska, Chris Lelliott, Alonso Haysom-Rodriguez, and Nikolaos Bournakas played in ≥1 matches in previous rounds)

After a slow start in the group stages, Mesut and colleagues at Bicycle Therapeutics (Tx) overcame several strong football teams – including the reigning (last two tournaments’) champions Illumina in the final – to bring home Bicycle Tx’s first ever sports-related trophy!

Mesut finished the tournament as top goalscorer with 12 goals in 5 games (missed 1st game v Alzheimer’s Research), including the winner in the final.

The tournament was organised by Granta Park – the home of many pharma companies and biotechs in south Cambridge.

Results:

Group Stage (8th July-20th August)

Finished 2nd in Group B with 4 points and scraped through to the quarter finals on goal difference

Alzheimer’s Research 2-1 Bicycle Tx (Steve)

Gilead 1-1 Bicycle Tx (Mesut 0-1)

Nxera 0-4 Bicycle Tx (Mesut 0-1 | Mesut 0-2, Mesut 0-3, Mesut 0-4)

Knockout Stages (28th August-1st October)

Quarter-Final (v 2nd in Group C)

Altos Labs 1-6 Bicycle Tx (Martin 0-1, Mesut 0-2, Steve 1-3 | Mesut 1-4, Mesut 1-5, Mesut 1-6)

Semi-Final (v 1st in Group A and winner of their respective QF)

BioMed Realty (aka Mighty Muntjacs) 0-5 Bicycle Tx (Mesut 0-1, Mesut 0-2, John 0-3 | Martin 0-4, Ashley 0-5)

Final (v 1st in Group C and winner of their respective QF and SF)

Illumina 0-1 Bicycle Tx (Mesut – 1st time finish from a curling cross by Ashley in the 1st half)

Granta Park Football Tournament Winners’ Shield – with Bicycle Tx engraved as the 2025 winners
Final Top Goalscorer table – for full details, see Score 7 website (Note: Assists table not very accurate as many teams/captains did not submit or partially submitted them incl. us)

PS: There have been many layoffs at Bicycle Tx in August (see link for details) so this tournament was an important opportunity for us in terms of ‘team building’ – and show our pride in representing this great biotech and generate some positive karma.

We were underdogs and could only achieve what we achieved by working for each other and the team as a whole (e.g. we had several attacking minded players who sacrificed their style for the team and provided assists to me when they could have acted selfishly; the subs made no fuss and did their job when they came on)

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