Kadriye Aydın (athlete)

Kadriye Aydın
nation	Turkey
birthday	2nd July 1995 (age 25)
Career
discipline	high jump
Best performance	1.86 m
status	active
last change: August 7, 2019

Kadriye Aydın (born July 2, 1995 in Mersin ) is a Turkish high jumper .

Personal and athletic career

Aydın was born as the second youngest child of a total of seven children. The family originally came from Van, but left the city after an earthquake and settled in Mersin . Aydın was born there in the simplest of circumstances and attended elementary school in her neighborhood. The PE teacher noticed Aydın's abilities in the third grade. Her parents initially refused to take part in sport, as it shouldn't be for a girl. The headmaster was able to convince the father of the opposite. Aydın graduated from grammar school and then from Mersin University of Applied Sciences . Kadriye Aydın gained her first international experience in 2011 at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Trabzon , where she was eliminated with 1.65 m in qualification, as well as at the Junior World Championships in Barcelona the following year with 1.70 m. In 2017 she reached tenth place at the U23 European Championships in Bydgoszcz with a skipped 1.76 m. In 2019 she took part in the Summer Universiade in Naples , where she was sixth with 1.80 m.

In 2018 and 2019 Aydın was the Turkish champion in the high jump outdoors and in 2017 and 2019 also in the hall.

Personal best

• High jump: 1.86 m, June 10, 2018 in Istanbul
  • High jump (hall): 1.84 m, February 20, 2019 in Istanbul

Web links

• Kadriye Aydın in the database of World Athletics (English)