Süreyya Ayhan

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Süreyya Ayhan (born September 6, 1978 in Korgun , Çankırı Province ) is a Turkish middle-distance runner who became the first woman in her country to win a medal in international athletics championships.

At the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton , she was eighth in the 1500 meter run . At the European Championships in Munich in 2002 , she then won the gold medal over this distance. The best placement before a track and field athlete from Turkey at the European Championships was a third place in the triple jump by Ruhi Sarıalp in 1950 . Ayhan was then voted Europe's athlete of the year . At the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis , she finished second behind Tatiana Tomaschowa .

In 2002 she received the Sedat Simavi Prize for Sport.

She is married to her trainer Yücel Kop, a former cross-country skier. The relationship caused a stir, as it became known in public when Kop was still married to another woman.

In August 2004 she was banned for two years for attempting to provide someone else's urine sample during a doping test . After she tested positive for anabolic steroids in September 2007, she was banned for life for doping . However, on May 30, 2008, the Turkish Sports Association reduced their suspension to four years. In November 2009 there was another lifelong ban by the International Sports Court .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Christian Fuchs: Jessica Ennis is Europe's Athlete of the Year , www.leichtathletik.de October 4, 2012.
  2. ↑ Focus : Athletics doping: Lifelong suspension for Sureyya Ayhan . January 25, 2008.
  3. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Flash news of the day . May 31, 2008.
  4. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Leichtathletik.de . November 11, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Ayhan, Süreyya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ayhan-Kop, Surreya (IAAF)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish middle-distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Korgun , Çankırı Province