The Cezmi Or Memorial (Turkish: Uluslararası Cezmi Or Kupası)[1] is an annual track and field meeting which takes place in Istanbul, Turkey.

Cezmi Or Memorial
DateJune
LocationSadi Gülçelik Stadium, Istanbul, Turkey Turkey
Event typeTrack and field
Established1945

The meeting is held in honour of late Turkish sprinter Cezmi Or, who set Turkish records in the men's 100 metres and 200 metres, but died of typhoid fever in 1945 at the age of 24. The memorial meeting was first held one year after his death and has continued annually without interruption.[2][3] It is held under the auspices of the Turkish Athletic Federation and Can Korkmazoğlu is the current meet organiser.[4]

The competition, which is undertaken at the Enka Sadi Gülçelik Stadium,[5] Stadium holds Classic Meeting status from the continental governing body, European Athletics.[6] Both international and Turkish athletes compete in the meetings events. At the 2005 edition of the competition, Turkish hammer thrower Eşref Apak set the current national record of 81.45 metres for the event, which is also the meet record.[7]

Meeting records edit

Men edit

Event Record Athlete Nationality Date Ref
100 m 10.08 Ramil Guliyev   Azerbaijan 13 June 2009 [8]
200 m 20.32 Ramil Guliyev   Azerbaijan 11 June 2011 [8]
400 m 45.76 Ibrahima Wade   Senegal 19 June 1999 [8]
800 m 1:47.22 Kamel Boulahfane   Algeria 19 June 1999 [8]
1500 m 3:41.27 Dmitrijs Jurkevičs   Latvia 8 June 2013 [9]
3000 m 7:57.96 Samir Moussaoui   Algeria 19 June 1999 [8]
5000 m 13:29.85 Abayneh Ayele   Ethiopia 11 June 2011 [8]
3000 m steeplechase 8:20.08 Birhan Getahun   Ethiopia 9 June 2012 [10]
110 m hurdles 13.71 Damjan Zlatnar   Slovenia 30 June 2007 [8]
400 m hurdles 49.40 Danny McFarlane   Jamaica 7 June 2003 [8]
High jump 2.31 m Dragutin Topić   Serbia and Montenegro 7 June 2003 [8]
Pole vault 5.51 m Ruhan Işım   Turkey 20 June 1998 [8]
Long jump 8.13 m Andriy Makarchev   Ukraine 28 June 2008
Triple jump 17.20 m Lenis Stamatis   Greece 24 June 2000 [8]
Shot put 20.85 m Pavel Lyzhyn   Belarus 3 June 2006 [8]
Discus throw 63.86 m Ludvík Daněk   Czechoslovakia 1975 [8]
Hammer throw 81.45 m Eşref Apak   Turkey 5 June 2005 [8]
Javelin throw 82.48 m Fatih Avan   Turkey 11 June 2011 [8]
10000 m walk (track) 45:58.7 Abdülkadir Öz   Turkey 15 July 1995 [8]
4 × 100 m relay 40.48 Matic Sustercic
Matej Junhart
Rok Predanic
Matic Osovnikar
  Slovenia 16 June 2001 [8]

Women edit

Event Record Athlete Nationality Date Ref
100 m 11.26 Irina Pukha   Ukraine 19 June 1999 [11]
200 m 23.08 (+0.5 (m/s) Viktoriya Pyatachenko   Ukraine 9 June 2012 [12]
400 m 51.43 Vania Stambolova   Bulgaria 11 June 2011 [11]
800 m 2:00.42 Tatyana Paliyenko   Russia 9 June 2012 [13]
1500 m 4:06.97 Alemitu Bekele Degfa   Turkey 12 June 2010 [11]
3000 m 9:22.78 Esma Aydemir   Turkey 13 June 2015 [14]
5000 m 15:18.81 Waganesh Mekasha   Ethiopia 9 June 2012 [15]
100 m hurdles 12.76 Nevin Yanit   Turkey 28 June 2008 [11]
400 m hurdles 54.33 Vania Stambolova   Bulgaria 11 June 2011 [11]
3000 m steeplechase 9:28.84 Türkan Erişmiş   Turkey 13 June 2009 [11]
High jump 1.98 m Venelina Veneva   Bulgaria 5 June 2005 [11]
Pole vault 4.30 m Tatiana Grigorieva
Tanya Koleva
  Australia
  Bulgaria
19 June 1999
24 June 2000
[11]
Buse Arıkazan   Turkey 10 June 2018 [16]
Long jump 4.30 m Elena Khlopotnova   Ukraine 20 June 1998 [11]
Triple jump 14.55 m Natalya Kutyakova   Russia 12 June 2010 [11]
Shot put 19.48 m Jillian Camarena-Williams   United States 11 June 2011 [11]
Discus throw 62.95 m Nicoleta Grasu   Romania 3 June 2006 [11]
Hammer throw 68.07 m Kıvılcım Salman Kaya   Turkey 10 June 2018 [17]
Javelin throw 47.08 m Sahar Ziaei   Iran 10 June 2018 [18]
5000 m walk (track) 20:29.63 Claudia Iovan   Romania 19 June 1999 [11]
4 × 100 m relay 45.37 Burcu Şentürk
Nora Güner
Anzhela Atroshchenko
Aksel Gürcan
  Turkey 8 June 2002 [11]

References edit

  1. ^ Meliz Formunda Değil[permanent dead link] (in Turkish). Yeniduzen (2011-06-13). Retrieved on 2011-06-16.
  2. ^ Guliyev and Chambers set for 100m battle at Istanbul’s Cezmi Or meeting Archived May 22, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. European Athletics (2011-05-19). Retrieved on 2011-06-16.
  3. ^ Fatih Sultan Kar. Cezmi Or Archived July 22, 2011, at the Wayback Machine (in Turkish). IETT. Retrieved on 2011-06-16.
  4. ^ Cezmi Or Memorial. Euromeetings. Retrieved on 2011-06-16.
  5. ^ 66th Cezmi Or Memorial , Istanbul (TUR) Archived June 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. European Athletics. Retrieved on 2011-06-16.
  6. ^ Guliyev and Avan provide Turkish delight at the Cezmi Or meeting in Istanbul Archived June 15, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. European Athletics (2011-06-12). Retrieved on 2011-06-16.
  7. ^ Türkiye’yi 50 yıl ileri fırlatan atlet: Eşref Apak (in Turkish). Habervesaire (2007-11-15). Retrieved on 2011-06-16.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q "ISTANBUL CEZMI OR MEMORIAL MEETING RECORDS MEN". www.cezmior.org. Archived from the original on 25 March 2012. Retrieved 10 June 2012.
  9. ^ Alfons Juck, Larry Eder (8 June 2013). "Robles runs 13.82 in Torino". www.runblogrun.com. Retrieved 12 June 2013.
  10. ^ "3000 Metres Steeplechase Results" (PDF). www.champstat.hr. 9 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 July 2012. Retrieved 10 June 2012.
  11. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "ISTANBUL CEZMI OR MEMORIAL MEETING RECORDS WOMEN". www.cezmior.org. Archived from the original on 25 March 2012. Retrieved 10 June 2012.
  12. ^ "200 Metres Results" (PDF). www.champstat.hr. 9 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 July 2012. Retrieved 10 June 2012.
  13. ^ "800 Metres Results" (PDF). www.champstat.hr. 9 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 July 2012. Retrieved 10 June 2012.
  14. ^ "70. Cezmi Or Kupası Atletizm Yarışmaları Yapıldı" (in Turkish). haberler.com. 13 June 2015. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  15. ^ "5000 Metres Results" (PDF). www.champstat.hr. 9 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 July 2012. Retrieved 10 June 2012.
  16. ^ "Istanbul (Turkey), 10.6.2018 -73rd Cezmi Or Memorial-". trackinsun.blogspot.com. 11 June 2018. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  17. ^ "Istanbul (Turkey), 10.6.2018 -73rd Cezmi Or Memorial-". trackinsun.blogspot.com. 11 June 2018. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
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