Buse Coskun

Buse Coskun
Coskun in 2011
Personal information
Country represented	Turkey
Born	26 May 1989 İstanbul, Turkey
Height	1.59 m (5 ft 2 ^1⁄2 in)
Coach	Cenk Ertaul
Choreographer	Svetlana Ertaul
Skating club	Olimpik 2023
Training locations	Istanbul,Turkey
Began skating	1996
Medal record Competitor for  Turkey

Buse Coskun (born 26 May 1989) is a Turkish figure skater. She is a ten-time Turkish medalist.She represented Turkey at the Netherlands 2004 World Junior Figure Skating Championships and placed 46th, at the Germany 2004 Pokal der Blauen Schwerter Chemnitz ISU Junior Grand Prix in Germany and placed 37th place, at the 7th European Youth Olympic Festival were only held in junior single skating categories in Monthey, Switzerland, between January 22 and January 29 Youth Olympic Winter games and placed 22nd place, at the 2006 World Junior Figure Skating Championships in Ljubliana and placed 25th place.

Career

Coskun started skating at the age of 6 with her kindergarten class, at the skating rink in the Galleria shopping mall of Istanbul. The rink was not of professional quality so Buse experienced difficulties in her training since olympic ice rink absence. At 9, she competed for the first time internationally for Turkey.

Istanbul had no olympik ice rink then, and no professional skating coaches. She had to do training in the 600 square meter Galleria Ice Rink. From 1998 to 2010, she represented Turkey in international competitions. All skaters continue their lives with an average of 30 hours of weekly training but Buse Coskun tried to pursue sports career working 3 hours a week in shopping mall. In 2003, she won a silver medal at the Golden Bear of Zagreb 2003 after gold medalist Kim Yuna.

In Turkey, because there was only two ice rink, Coskun was going to Kocaeli Province. After training in early hours, she was going back to Istanbul for school. She had so many difficulties in her sport life. Even so, she represented Turkey in so many competitions and be medalist so many times in Turkey Championships.

At the 2011 Erzurum University Championships, Buse was a speaker and commentator on the TRT channel. She is now an assistant coach at Olimpik Sport Club 2023^[1] with her coach Cenk Ertaul and former national skater Renk Kemaloglu.

Results

International[2]
Event	1999–00	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05	2005–06	2006–07	2007–08	2008–09
Golden Bear	23rd			2nd J.	7th		9th
Copenhagen Trophy			23rd
Triglav Trophy		28th		21st	22nd				12th
Silver Cup						2nd J.
International: Junior[2]
Junior Worlds					46th	37th		25th
ISU Junior Grand Prix in Germany							25th
2004 World Junior Figure Skating Championships							25th
Youth Olympic Winter games						47th
2006 World Junior Figure Skating Championships								36th
National[2]
Turkish Figure Skating Championships	4th	3rd	1st	1st	3rd	2nd	1st	1st	2nd	1st
Turkish Cup	3rd	2nd	1st	1st	1st	3rd	1st	2nd	1st	1st
J. = Junior level; JGP = Junior Grand Prix; WD = Withdrew

References

1. http://www.olimpik2023.com/
2. "Competition Results: Yuna KIM". International Skating Union.

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