Eşref Apak

Eşref Apak
nation	Turkey
birthday	3rd January 1982 (age 38)
place of birth	Kalecik , Turkey
size	184 cm
Weight	120 kg
Career
discipline	Hammer throw
Best performance	81.45 m (June 5, 2005 in Istanbul )
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × Mediterranean Games 1 × 0 × 0 × Summer Universiade 0 × 1 × 0 × U20 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U23 European Championships 0 × 1 × 0 × U20 European Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Olympic games bronze Athens 2004 79.51 m  Mediterranean Games gold Almería 2005 77.88 m  Universiade silver Izmir 2005 76.18 m  Junior World Championships gold Santiago 2000 69.97 m  U23 European Championships silver Bydgoszcz 2003 76.52 m  Junior European Championships bronze Grosseto 2001 67.56 m

Eşref Apak (born January 3, 1982 in Kalecik , Ankara Province ) is a Turkish hammer thrower .

The junior world champion from 2000 subsequently won the bronze medal at the 2004 Olympic Games after the first-placed Adrián Annus (HUN) refused a doping control in the days after the competition and was disqualified. 56 years after the third place of the triple jumper Ruhi Sarıalp , Apak was only the second Turkish athlete to win an Olympic medal.

Apak set the current Turkish record of 81.45 meters in Istanbul on June 4, 2005 , but failed shortly afterwards at the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in the qualification. At the Universiade 2005 he won silver.

At the 2007 World Cup in Osaka , he finished eleventh. In 2008 he took part in the Olympic Games in Beijing and in 2012 in the Summer Games in London . In both cases he did not get beyond the rear placements.

In 2013 he was banned for doping with stanozolol for two years until June 25, 2015.

Web links

• Eşref Apak in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Eşref Apak in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Athletes currently suspended from all competitions in athletics following an Anti-Doping Rule Violation as at: 04.12.14 IAAF December 4, 2014
2. ↑ Doping scandals land blow to Turkish athletics www.hurriyetdailynews.com June 27, 2013