İlyas Çanakçı

İlyas Çanakçı
nation	Turkey
birthday	7th September 2001 (age 18)
place of birth	Konya ,  Turkey
Career
discipline	400 meter run
Best performance	46.48 s
status	active
Medal table
U20 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U18 European Championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
U20 European Championships gold Borås 2019 4 × 400 m  U18 European Championships silver Győr 2018 Sprint relay
last change: July 2nd, 2020

İlyas Çanakçı (born September 7, 2001 in Konya ) is a Turkish sprinter who specializes in the 400-meter run .

Athletic career

İlyas Çanakçı gained his first international experience in 2018 when he finished fifth in the 400-meter run at the European Youth Championships in Győr in 47.45 s and the silver medal in the Turkish sprint relay (1000 meters) in 1: 53.84 min won. He then took part in the 4 x 400 meter relay at the U20 World Championships in Tampere , where he did not reach the final with 3: 09.87 min. In October he took part in the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires , where he came fourth. In 2019 he finished sixth at the U20 European Championships in Borås in 46.48 s and won the relay in 3: 08.34 min.

In 2019 Çanakçı became Turkish champion in the 200-meter run.

Personal best

• 200 meters: 21.60 s (+0.6 m / s), June 8, 2019 in Cluj-Napoca
  • 200 meters (hall): 21.95 s, December 22, 2019 in Istanbul
• 400 meters: 46.48 s on July 20, 2019 in Borås
  • 400 meters (hall): 47.98 s, December 21, 2019 in Istanbul

Web links

• Ilyas Çanakçı in the database of World Athletics (English)