Galatasaray Rowing

Galatasaray
Motto	Çek mastor çek
Location	İstanbul, Turkey
Coordinates	41°00′34.95″N 28°46′20.12″E / 41.0097083°N 28.7722556°ECoordinates: 41°00′34.95″N 28°46′20.12″E / 41.0097083°N 28.7722556°E
Home water	Lake Küçükçekmece
Founded	1873
Affiliations	Turkish Rowing Federation
Website	www.galatasaray.org/susporlari/kurek/
Distinctions
25 times winners of Turkish Rowing Championship

Active departments of Galatasaray
Football	Volleyball (Men's)	Volleyball (Women's)
Basketball (Men's)	Basketball (Women's)	Wheelchair Basketball
Athletics	Equestrian	Judo
Rowing	Sailing	Swimming
Water Polo (Men's)	Water Polo (Women's)	Bridge
Chess

Galatasaray Rowing Team is the men's and women's rowing section of Galatasaray S.K., a major sports club in Istanbul, Turkey. The club is based at Lake Küçükçekmece, in Kanarya neighborhood west of İstanbul.^[1][2][3]

İhsan Emre Vural and his teammate Ahmet Yumrukaya became the first world-champions in the history of Turkey when they got first place in the 2004 World Rowing Under 23 Championships held in Poznań, Poland.

In 2013, Galatasaray Rowing Team won Turkish Rowing Championship Cup.^[4]

Turkish Men's & Women's Champion - Galatasaray Museum

Technical staff

Name	Nat.	Job
Giuseppe De Capua		Manager, Head Coach
Faruk Algür		Küçükçekmece Rowing Center Director

Current squad

Senior - Men's	Junior - Men's	Junior - Women's
Murat Türker	Ata Şüküroğlu	Gamze Erdem
Yücel Mutlu	Barış Güngör	Burcu Kartel
Levent Atıl	Barış Kilim	Zeynep Güneri
Cem Yılmaz	Burak Bakırhan	Serenay Şenol
Barbaros Gözütok	Can Güneri	Gizem Kabinli
Ahmet Yumrukaya	Can Horlu	Büşra Taşdelen
Uğur Kılıç	Doğukan Çiloğlu	Melis Parlak
İsmail Özgür	Emre Ekiz	Elif Beşlioğlu
Hakan Özcan	Erdem Öztürk	Büşra Tesbihçi
Kaan Şahin	Gökhun Karagöz
Bahadır Kaykaç	Gökhan Şahin
Bayram Sönmez	Gökhan Elmas
Sezgin Günalp	Kadir Bozkurt
Burak Yıldırım	Muhammed Canşi
Mehmet Keskin	Özkan Özkara
Sina Talebi	Recep Ağyar
Doğancan Gür	Samet Üçtepe
Ozan Saygi	Serhat Kayabaşı
	Umut Yeşil
	Caner Çelik
	Deniz Karadayı

^[5]

Domestic Success

• Turkish Rowing Championship:
  • Winners (25): 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1966, 1967, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1994, 2000, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013
• Istanbul Championship:
  • Winners (22):1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950
• Turkish Cup:
  • Winners (9): 1987, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2004, 2010, 2013.

References

1. "Galatasaray Kürek Tesisleri" (in Turkish). İstanbul Spor Envanteri. Retrieved 2015-07-08.
2. "Galatasaray'ın kürek tesisleri için yıkım kararı". Radikal (in Turkish). 2013-02-20. Retrieved 2015-07-08.
3. "G.Saray Kürek Kamp Merkezi törenle açıldı". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2014-03-26. Retrieved 2015-07-08.
4. Galatasaray Sports Club Official Website
5. Galatasaray Sports Club Official Website

External links

• Galatasaray SK Official Web Site (Turkish)
• Galatasaray Rowing Official Web Site (Turkish)