Galatasaray Athletics

For other uses of "Galatasaray", see Galatasaray (disambiguation).

Galatasaray

League	Turkey Athletics
Based in	İstanbul, Turkey
Arena	Burhan Felek Sports Complex
Colors	Yellow & Red
President	Dursun Özbek
Head coach	Temel Erbek
Championships	27 (Turkish League)
Mascot	Lion
Website	http://www.galatasaray.org/amator/atletizm/

Galatasaray Athletics Team is the men's and women's athletics section of Galatasaray S.K., a major sports club in Istanbul, Turkey.

Some Notable Athletes

• Şehit Celal (First Turkish Athlete)
• Silifkeli Şükrü Halil Dölek
• Fuat Salih
• Rıza Salih
• Vildan Aşil Savaşır
• Ömer Besim Koşalay
• Semih Türkdoğan
• Mehmet Ali Aybar
• Naili Moran
• Cezmi Or
• Eşref Aydın
• Jerfi Fıratlı
• Cahit Öner
• Şükrü Çaprazlı
• Suat Hayri Ürgüplü
• Turhan Kahraman
• Temel Erbek
• Murat Akman
• Teoman Smith
• Ahmet Karadag
• Ahmet Melek
• Murat Ayaydin
• Rauf Hasağası ^[1]
• İsmail Nezir

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Technical staff

Name	Nat.	Job
Temel Erbek		Captain general
Hasan Özbakır		A team Coach and Youth Team Manager
Uğur Özdemir		Trainer

Current squad

Men's squad

Turkey A-Team Kamil Ulaş Öğünç Erdem Güler Batuhan Eruygun Furkan Hasan Can (Captain) Mikail Yalçın Samet Özdemir Mustafa Alpçin Aykut Tanrıverdi Kutay Kırmızı Ali Dereli Ahmet Bektaş İbrahim Dereli Hasan Güler Gökhan Arslan Koray İmrak Fatih Çakmak Hakan Karakuş Turgay Çabukel Mustafa Kıvanç

Youth Team Tugay Levent (Captain) Hazar Ilgaz Hasan Emir Kırmızı Yıldırım Alkan İmran Atmaca Murat Gültekin Okan Bağcı Hüseyin Oruçsuz Sami Tolga Korkmaz Şener Sağlam Feyyaz Akça Muhammet Maviş Artam Diren

Team Starlets and Under 16 Team İbrahim Şan (Starlets Team Captain) Mustafa Yavuz (Under 16 Team Captain) Samet Barış Avcu Mehmet Baykent Met Baş Yahya Tedbirli Ömer Özmen İlyas Saban Ali Özgür Çakmak Erhan Çetin Emrah Akbacak Yağız Temur Melik Çamur Muhammet Tok Mustafa İnan Batuhan Erdi Can Kıvılcım Bayram Yiğit Mert Uğur Savaş Umut Uçar Mehmet Buğra Gündoğmuş

Women's squad

  Turkey

• Merve Aydın (born 1990), middle-distance
• Nilay Erkal (born 1999), long-distance

Honors

• Turkish Athletics Championship: Winners (27) (Record)
  • 1924, 1927, 1932, 1933, 1951, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989
• Istanbul Championship: Winners (31) (Record)
  • 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1931, 1933, 1941, 1942, 1945, 1951, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986
• Turkish Athletics League: Winners (1)
  • 1988
• European Youth Athletics Championship:
  • 1995 Belgium: (4.)
  • 1996 Turkey:(2.)
  • 1997 Croatia:(4.)

References

1. ""BİTMEYEN MEKTEP"" (PDF) (in Turkish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-12-05. Retrieved 2024-01-11.
2. Galatasaray'da Atletizm

External links

• Galatasaray SK Official Web Site (in Turkish)