Karin Melis Mey
Ksenija Balta 
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| birthday | 31st May 1983 (age 37) | ||||||||||||
| place of birth | Pretoria , South Africa | ||||||||||||
| size | 171 cm | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 60 kg | ||||||||||||
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| discipline | Long jump | ||||||||||||
| Best performance | 6.93 m 
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| society | Fenerbahçe Athletics | ||||||||||||
| Trainer | Charley Strohmenger | ||||||||||||
| National squad | since 2008 | ||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||
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| last change: April 18, 2017 | |||||||||||||
Karin Mey Melis (born Karin Mey ; born May 31, 1983 in Pretoria ) is a Turkish long jumper of South African origin.
Career
She became the South African long jump champion in 2004 and took part in the 2005 Summer Universiade in İzmir for her country of birth , where she took sixth place.
She received Turkish citizenship on June 30, 2008 and has since started internationally for Turkey. She took part in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing , but failed there in the qualification. She also missed the finals at the 2009 European Indoor Championships in Turin . Both times she stayed well below her potential.
She finally achieved her international breakthrough at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin . With a width of 6.80 m she won the bronze medal behind Brittney Reese from the USA and Tatjana Lebedewa from Russia . At the Indoor World Championships 2010 in Doha , Mey Melis could not qualify for the final. In 2011 she finished eighth at the World Championships in Daegu .
After her two-year doping ban, she finished seventh at the 2015 European Indoor Championships in Prague and won the gold medal for Turkey at the European Team Championships in the second highest league. In 2016, she finished fifth at the European Championships in Amsterdam with 6.62 m. This was followed by the end in qualifying at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro .
doping
At the European Championships in 2012 , Mey Melis originally jumped to fifth place. She was later disqualified due to a positive doping test. Because the IAAF found out about it too late, it was still able to start at the Olympic Games in London and reached the final. But then she was no longer allowed to compete there. She was banned for two years until August 7, 2014.
Top performances
- Long jump: 6.93 m, July 7, 2007 in Bad Langensalza ( Turkish record )
- Hall: 6.85 m, February 21, 2008 in Stockholm ( Turkish record )
Web links
- Karin Melis Mey in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Karin Melis Mey in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ gbrathletics.com: South African Championships
- ↑ 21st European Athletics Championships, Olympic Stadium ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ World Cup third Mey Melis was doped at EM , Focus Online September 19, 2012, viewed on September 19, 2012
- ^ Long jumper Mey Melis banned for two years ( memento from January 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Handelsblatt, December 20, 2012
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| SURNAME | Mey Melis, Karin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mey, Karin; Melis, Karin; Melis May, Karin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pretoria |