Fenerbahçe Athletics

Fenerbahçe Athletics

Full name	Fenerbahçe Sports Club Athletics Section
Nickname(s)	The Yellow Canaries
Founded	1913
Ground	Dereağzı Facilities, Istanbul, Turkey
Chairman	Aziz Yıldırım
Manager	Ziya Özel
League	Turkish Men's Athletics League Turkish Women's Athletics League
2013-14	Runners-up (Men) Champion (Women)
Website	Club home page

Active departments of Fenerbahçe
Football	Basketball (Men's)	Basketball (Women's)
Volleyball (Men's)	Volleyball (Women's)	Table Tennis
Swimming	Rowing	Sailing
Athletics	Boxing

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

Fenerbahçe Athletics' home is Dereağzı Facilities in Kadıköy.

Current squad

Technical staff

Name	Nat.	Job
Turan Şahin		Manager
Fikret Çetinkaya		Branches Captain
Edip Akarsu		Coordinator
Gürsal Özyurt		Coach
Ziya Özel		Coach
Mesut Tümay		Coach
Ramazan Kutlu		Coach
Artun Talay		Coach
Şenol Özdemir		Coach
Cahit Yüksel		Youth Academy Director

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Current squad

Men's squad

 Turkey

• Oğuz Akça
• Halil Akkaş
• Caner Alagöz
• Karer Alagöz
• Mustafa Altınel
• Görkem Arbaş Ballı
• Orhan Arslan
• Mustafa Aslaner
• İsmail Aslan
• Hüseyin Atıcı
• Fatih Avan
• Onur Aycibin
• Furhan Aydın
• Osman Baş
• Selim Bayrak
• Tuğhan Belbek
• Emre Biçer
• Serhat Birinci
• Turgay Çabukel
• Gürbüz Çam
• Emrah Çoban
• Oğuzhan Demir
• Ali Dereli
• Metin Durmuşoğlu
• Erkin Değirmencioğlu
• Samet Eren
• Gökalp Eroğul
• Cenk Erol
• Fatih Eryıldırım
• Oytun Gören
• Ramil Guliyev
• Ahmet Güllüel
• Sedat Günen
• Vedat Günen
• Gökhan Günendi
• Uğur Hocaoğlu
• Oğuz Hümmetler
• Koray İmrak
• Çağlar Kahramanoğlu
• Rıza Arif Karabacak
• Emre Karademir
• Samet Keskinbaş
• Kemal Koyuncu
• Berk Köksal
• Ensar Kurutulmuş
• Ertan Nuh
• Ercüment Olgundeniz
• Ali Özcan
• Uğur Özcan
• Mehmet Özçelik
• Sezai Özkaya
• Hasan Pak
• Hüseyin Pak
• Serhat Polat
• Mahir Sefertaş
• Muzaffer Soysal
• Ümit Sungur
• Ercan Şentürk
• Serdar Tamaç
• Umut Toyer
• Hüseyin Yağlı
• Şükrü Yaman
• Fatih Yıldırım
• Veysel Yıldırım
• Mustafa Yıldız
• Haşim Yılmaz
• Serkan Kaan Yüksel

 Bulgaria

• Yordan Ilinov

Morocco

• Youssef Baba

South Africa

• Ockert Cilliers

Women's squad

 Turkey

• Ahenk Acarbay
• Sibel Ağan
• Gökçe Akkaya
• Cemra Alagöz
• Burcu Ayhan
• Yeşim Baloğlu
• Gamze Bulut
• Seda Can
• Yağmur Damla Demiralp
• Şerife Beyza Duru
• Meral Eliaçık
• Meliha Erdoğan
• Kamile Hilal Eser
• Başak Gümüşay
• Mevre Günegi
• Pınar Hancı
• İmge İçar
• Serpil İnan
• Nazlı İnce
• Nagihan Karadere
• Dudu Karakaya
• Nimet Karakuş
• Kıvılcım Kaya
• Esen Kızıldağ
• Serpil Koçak
• Burçin Kömür
• Ece Esin Küken
• Hazal Melike Özağı
• Karin Melis Mey
• Gülcan Mıngır
• Buse Över
• Verda Özdemir
• Ayşula Özgen
• Nilgün Öztürk
• Saliha Özyurt
• Hülya Sağlam
• Ahu Solak
• Şule Şahbaz
• Tuğçe Şahutoğlu
• Ümral Naz Tanrıan
• Aysel Taş
• Yağmur Taş
• Elif Tokatlıoğlu
• Didem Topçuoğlu
• Mukadder Ulusoy
• Zeynep Uzun
• İlayda Yalçınkaya
• Nevin Yanıt
• Başak Yörük

 Barbados

• Jade Bailey

Belarus

• Vera Yepimashko

 Russia

• Tatyana Polnova

 Ukraine

• Yuliya Krevsun

Honours (Men's)

International success

• European Champion Clubs Cup:
  • Champions (2): 1993 (Group B), 1998 (Group C)
  • Runners-up (2): 1995 (Group B), 2006 (Group B)
  • Sixth (1): 2007 (Group A)

Domestic success

• Turkish Men's Athletics League:
  • Winners (20): 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012
• Turkish Men's Athletics Championship:
  • Winners (11): 1952, 1953, 1954, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1984, 1985, 1987
• Turkish Cross Country Championship:
  • Winners (13): 1956, 1959, 1973, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1989, 1994, 1995
• Throws League:
  • Winners (1): 2007
• Istanbul Championship:
  • Winners (22): 1939, 1940, 1944, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988
• Rose Cup:
  • Winners (17): 1939, 1940, 1941, 1944, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960

Honours (Women's)

International success

• European Champion Clubs Cup:
  • Runners-up (3): 2015 (Group A), 1998 (Group B), 1997 (Group C)

Domestic success

• Turkish Women's Athletics League:
  • Winners (6): 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2009
  • Runners-up (9): 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
• Turkish Women's Athletics Championship:
  • Winners (9): 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966
• Turkish Cross Country Championship:
  • Winners (2): 1999, 2001
• Turkish Throws League:
  • Winners (1): 2007
• Istanbul Championship:
  • Winners (12): 1926, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1970

Notable athletes

• Halil Akkaş
• Eşref Apak
• Anzhela Atroshchenko
• Fatih Avan
• Youssef Baba - 1500 m, African champion
• Donovan Bailey - 100 m, former world recorder, two times olympic gold medalist and world champion
• Jade Bailey
• Selim Bayrak (born Shimelis Legese)
• Ockert Cilliers
• Justin Gatlin - 100 m, Olympic gold medalist and world champion
• Ramil Guliyev
• Nora Ivanova-Güner - Mediterranean Games champion in 100 m and 200 m
• Nimet Karakuş, 100 m, world junior silver medalist
• Ebru Kavaklıoğlu (born Yelena Kopytova)
• Kemal Koyuncu
• Yuliya Krevsun
• Karin Melis Mey (born Karin Mey) - long jump, bronze medalist in world championship
• Ercüment Olgundeniz
• Merlene Ottey - 200 m and 4x100 m, world champion
• Tatyana Polnova - pole vaulter, bronze medalist in both world and European championships
• Ionela Târlea - 400 m hurdles, 2004 olympic silver medalist
• Mehmet Terzi - won the gold medal at the 1979 Mediterranean Games in Split, Yugoslavia and 1983 Mediterranean Games in Casablanca, Morocco for marathon and at the road running Istanbul, Turkey in 1985 and San Francisco, USA in 1987 after receiving the silver medal in 1978 Paris, France and 1983 Frankfurt, Germany marathons and serves as the president of the Turkish Athletic Federation since 2004
• Nevin Yanıt - 100 m hurdles, European champion

References

1. "Team Technical Staff". Fenerbahçe.org. Retrieved 2007-11-13.

External links

• Fenerbahçe Athletics site (Turkish)
• Official Fenerbahçe site (Turkish) (English) (Georgian) (Portuguese)