Şahika Ercümen

Şahika Ercümen (* 16th January 1985 in Canakkale , Turkey ) is a Turkish Freitaucherin and underwater hockey - and underwater rugby player of the Turkish national team.

Life

In childhood Ercümen suffered from asthma and allergies. As a result, she often had to be treated in hospitals. She attended Gazi Elementary School in Canakkale , and graduated from Milli Piyango Lisesi in Canakkale. She then studied health and nutritional counseling at Ankara University .

She started freediving in 2003 . At the World Championships in Tenerife she achieved the best result within the Turkish team and also set a new Turkish record.

Ercümen gives free diving lessons in Istanbul .

successes

• At the 2006 World Championships in Tenerife , she once again set a national record in freediving.
• With the Turkish underwater hockey team, she came third at the 2008 European Championships and fourth at the European Freediving Championships.
• At the Turkish Freediving Championships in 2009 she was national champion. She also approached the world record (-65 m).
• On February 11, 2011, she became the world record holder in Weissensee in distance diving without oxygen equipment under ice with 110 meters.

Web links

• Archive page Homepage of Şahika Ercümen ( Memento from February 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
• Archive page Interview on r2inside ( Memento from January 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive )