Galatasaray Athletics

For other uses of "Galatasaray", see Galatasaray (disambiguation).

Galatasaray Athletics Team is the men's and women's athletics section of Galatasaray S.K., a major sports club in Istanbul, Turkey.

Galatasaray

League	Turkey Athletics
Based in	İstanbul, Turkey
Arena	Burhan Felek Sports Complex
Colors	Yellow & Red
President	Dursun Özbek
Head coach	Temel Erbek
Championships	27 (Turkish League)
Mascot	Lion
Website	http://www.galatasaray.org/amator/atletizm/

Some Notable Athletes

• Şehit Celal (First Turkish Athlete)
• Silifkeli Şükrü Halil Dölek
• Fuat Salih
• Rıza Salih
• Vildan Aşil Savaşır
• Ömer Besim Koşalay
• Semih Türkdoğan
• Mehmet Ali Aybar
• Naili Moran
• Cezmi Or
• Eşref Aydın
• Jerfi Fıratlı
• Cahit Öner
• Şükrü Çaprazlı
• Suat Hayri Ürgüplü
• Turhan Kahraman
• Temel Erbek
• Murat Akman
• Teoman Smith
• Ahmet Karadag
• Ahmet Melek
• Murat Ayaydin
• Rauf Hasağası
• İsmail Nezir

Technical staff

Name	Nat.	Job
Temel Erbek		Captain general
Hasan Özbakır		A team Coach and Youth Team Manager
Uğur Özdemir		Trainer

Current squad

Men's squad

Turkey

• A-Team
• Kamil Ulaş Öğünç
• Erdem Güler
• Batuhan Eruygun
• Furkan Hasan Can (Captain)
• Mikail Yalçın
• Samet Özdemir
• Mustafa Alpçin
• Aykut Tanrıverdi
• Kutay Kırmızı
• Ali Dereli
• Ahmet Bektaş
• İbrahim Dereli
• Hasan Güler
• Gökhan Arslan
• Koray İmrak
• Fatih Çakmak
• Hakan Karakuş
• Turgay Çabukel
• Mustafa Kıvanç

• Youth Team
• Tugay Levent (Captain)
• Hazar Ilgaz
• Hasan Emir Kırmızı
• Yıldırım Alkan
• İmran Atmaca
• Murat Gültekin
• Okan Bağcı
• Hüseyin Oruçsuz
• Sami Tolga Korkmaz
• Şener Sağlam
• Feyyaz Akça
• Muhammet Maviş
• Artam Diren

• Team Starlets and Under 16 Team
• İbrahim Şan (Starlets Team Captain)
• Mustafa Yavuz (Under 16 Team Captain)
• Samet Barış Avcu
• Mehmet Baykent
• Met Baş
• Yahya Tedbirli
• Ömer Özmen
• İlyas Saban
• Ali Özgür Çakmak
• Erhan Çetin
• Emrah Akbacak
• Yağız Temur
• Melik Çamur
• Muhammet Tok
• Mustafa İnan
• Batuhan
• Erdi Can Kıvılcım
• Bayram Yiğit
• Mert Uğur Savaş
• Umut Uçar
• Mehmet Buğra Gündoğmuş

Women's squad

Turkey

• Merve Aydın (born 1990), middle-distance
• Nilay Erkal (born 1999), long-distance

Honors

• Turkish Athletics Championship: Winners (27) (Record)
  • 1924, 1927, 1932, 1933, 1951, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989
• Istanbul Championship: Winners (31) (Record)
  • 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1931, 1933, 1941, 1942, 1945, 1951, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986
• Turkish Athletics League: Winners (1)
  • 1988
• European Youth Athletics Championship:
  • 1995 Belgium: (4.)
  • 1996 Turkey:(2.)
  • 1997 Croatia:(4.)

External links

• Galatasaray SK Official Web Site (in Turkish)