Fatih Avan

Fatih Avan
Avan at the 2012 Bislett Games
Full name	Fatih Avan
nation	Turkey
birthday	January 1, 1989
place of birth	Andırın
size	183 cm
Weight	90 kg
Career
discipline	Javelin throw
status	active
Medal table
Mediterranean Games gold 2009 Pescara 79.78 m  Universiade gold 2011 Shenzhen 83.79 m U23 European Championships silver 2011 Ostrava 84.11 m
last change: August 13, 2012

Fatih Avan (born January 1, 1989 in Andırın ) is a Turkish athlete who specializes in throwing the javelin . He starts for the athletics department of Fenerbahçe SK .

Career

Avan was third in the 2009 European Winter Throwing Cup in Los Realejos and won the Mediterranean Games in Pescara , but missed the finals at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin .

His international breakthrough came in 2011. He won the U23 Winter Throwing European Cup in Sofia. At the U23 European Athletics Championships in Ostrava , he finished second behind the German Till Wöschler , and won the gold medal at the Summer Universiade in Shenzhen . After he had reached fifth place at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu , he increased the Turkish spear throwing record at the Memorial Van Damme to 84.79 m. It was already the fourth national record for him this season.

At the 2012 Olympic Games in London and at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow, he was unable to qualify for the final.

Web links

• Fatih Avan in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Fatih Avan in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Result statistics from Fatih Avan on tilastopaja.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ European Athletic Association: Turkey's Avan and Bulgaria's Lalova are the 2011 Balkan athletes of the year ( Memento of the original dated December 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), December 4, 2011.