Derya Erke

Derya Erke
Personal information
Full name Şadan Derya Erke
National team  Turkey
Born (1983-11-11) 11 November 1983
Istanbul, Turkey
Height 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight 59 kg (130 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Backstroke
Club İstanbul Yüzme İhtisas Kulübü

Şadan Derya Erke (born November 11, 1983) is a Turkish former swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events.[1] She is a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2004) and a member of Istanbul Swimming Club (Turkish: İstanbul Yüzme İhtisas Kulübü). She previously held Turkish records in the 50, 100, and 200 m backstroke, until they were all broken by Hazal Sarikaya in 2012. Erke is also a graduate of Marmara University in Istanbul.[2]

Erke made her first Turkish team, as a 16-year-old teen, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. There, she failed to reach the semifinals in any of her individual events, finishing forty-second in the 100 m backstroke (1:07.26), and twenty-ninth in the 200 m backstroke (2:21.28).[3][4][5]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Erke maintained her program on her second Olympic appearance, competing again in the 100 and 200 m backstroke. She posted FINA B-standard entry times of 1:04.28 (100 m backstroke) and 2:19.11 (200 m backstroke) from the European Championships in Madrid, Spain.[6][7][8] In the 100 m backstroke, Erke challenged six other swimmers in heat two, including 14-year-olds Anastassiya Prilepa of Kazakhstan and Olga Gnedovskaya of Uzbekistan. She raced to third place and thirty-fourth overall by 0.23 of a second behind Thailand's Chonlathorn Vorathamrong with a time of 1:05.38.[9][10] In the 200 m backstroke, Erke shared a twenty-first place tie with Italy's Alessia Filippi from the morning's preliminaries. Swimming in the same heat as her first, she posted a lifetime best of 2:17.29 to claim another third spot by a 3.22-second margin behind winner Evelyn Verrasztó of Hungary.[11][12]

References

  1. ↑ "Derya Erke". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
  2. ↑ "Yüzme Kafilesi Listesi" (PDF) (in Turkish). Universiade 2005 Izmir. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
  3. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 100m Backstroke Heat 1" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 291. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 200m Backstroke Heat 2" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 299. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  5. ↑ "Dolan breaks own world mark in 400 IM". Canoe.ca. 17 September 2000. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
  6. ↑ "Swimming – Women's 100m Backstroke Startlist (Heat 2)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  7. ↑ "Swimming – Women's 200m Backstroke Startlist (Heat 2)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  8. ↑ "Derya Erke de yarı finale yükseldi" [Derya Erke reached the semifinals] (in Turkish). Sabah. 14 May 2004. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
  9. ↑ "Women's 100m Backstroke Heat 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  10. ↑ Thomas, Stephen (15 August 2004). "Women’s 100 Backstroke Prelims: France's Manaudou Fastest in 1:01.27; Natalie Coughlin, Haley Cope Move Through to Semis". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  11. ↑ "Women's 200m Backstroke Heat 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 19 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  12. ↑ Thomas, Stephen (19 August 2004). "Women’s 200 Backstroke, Day 6 Prelims: Top Seeds Komarova and Nakamura Qualify Fastest". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
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