Yavuz Can (born 23 February 1987) is a Turkish sprinter specialising in the 400 Metres. [1]
Yavuz Can (born 23 February 1987) is a Turkish sprinter specialising in the 400 Metres. [1]
He won the silver medal in the 4 × 400 Metres Relay at the 2013 Mediterranean Games. In addition, he competed at two outdoor and two indoor European Championships, as well as the 2012 World Indoor Championships in his native land, Turkey.
His personal bests in the 400 Metres are 45.64 seconds outdoors (Zeulenroda, 2016) and 46.87 seconds indoors (Istanbul, 2015), both performances were labelled as Turkish national record in these disciplines.
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