Ruhi Sarıalp
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![]() | 1948 London | Triple jump |
European Championships | ||
![]() | 1950 Brussels | Triple jump |
Ruhi Sarıalp (December 15, 1924 – March 3, 2001) was a Turkish track and field athlete, who competed mainly in the triple jump. He was born in Manisa.[1]
Background
He competed for Turkey in the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, Great Britain in the triple jump, where he won the bronze medal with a mark of 15.02 m.
He started athletics during his education at the military high school in Konya. In 1945, he broke the Turkish record in triple jump. After his bronze medal jump at the Olympics, he won another bronze medal at the 1950 European Athletics Championships in Brussels, Belgium. He became so the first ever track and field athlete from Turkey to win a medal at the Olympics and the European Championships. Ruhi Sarıalp became champion at the World Military Athletics Championships held 1951 in Rome, Italy by breaking the World record. He repeated his first place in the same championships of 1952.[2]
After leaving the active sports, Ruhi Sarıalp served as a lecturer for physical education in the School of Maritime at Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ). The indoor sports hall of İTÜ, located in the Tuzla district of Istanbul, is named after him.[3] He was a member of the supreme council of the Fenerbahçe SK athletic branch Fenerbahçe Athletics.[4]
He died on March 3, 2001, in İzmir due to agonal respiration, and was buried in the Edirnekapı Martyr's Cemetery in Istanbul.[5] He was married with Ayşe Cebesoy, a niece of the renowned Turkish statesman Ali Fuat Cebesoy.[6]
References
- ^ "Ruhi SARIALP". www.atletin.org. Retrieved 2024-07-29.
- ^ Atletik (in Turkish)
- ^ School of Maritime, Istanbul Technical University Archived 2007-02-02 at the Wayback Machine (in Turkish)
- ^ Angelfire news (in Turkish)
- ^ Newspaper Hürriyet March 6, 2001 Archived September 13, 2002, at archive.today (in Turkish)
- ^ Weekly News Magazine Aksiyon Archived 2006-12-15 at the Wayback Machine (in Turkish)
External links
- Ruhi Sarıalp at Olympedia
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- Yaşar Erkan
- Nasuh Akar
- Gazanfer Bilge
- Celal Atik
- Yaşar Doğu
- Ahmet Kireççi
- Mehmet Oktav
- Hasan Gemici
- Bayram Şit
- Mithat Bayrak (2 titles)
- Mustafa Dağıstanlı (2 titles)
- Hamit Kaplan
- Müzahir Sille
- Tevfik Kış
- Ahmet Bilek
- Hasan Güngör
- İsmet Atlı
- Kazım Ayvaz
- İsmail Ogan
- Mahmut Atalay
- Ahmet Ayık
- Naim Süleymanoğlu (3 titles)
- Halil Mutlu (3 titles)
- Akif Pirim
- Hamza Yerlikaya (2 titles)
- Mahmut Demir
- Hüseyin Özkan
- Nurcan Taylan
- Taner Sağır
- Ramazan Şahin
- Servet Tazegül
- Taha Akgül
- Mete Gazoz
- Busenaz Sürmeneli
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- Halit Balamir
- Adil Candemir
- Kenan Olcay
- Muhlis Tayfur
- Rıza Doğan
- İbrahim Zengin
- İsmail Ogan
- Hamit Kaplan
- Hüseyin Akbaş
- Hasan Güngör
- Ahmet Ayık
- Vehbi Akdağ
- Necmi Gençalp
- Hakkı Başar
- Kenan Şimşek
- Malik Beyleroğlu
- Şeref Eroğlu
- Bahri Tanrıkulu
- Atagün Yalçınkaya
- Azize Tanrıkulu
- Nur Tatar
- Daniyar Ismayilov
- Rıza Kayaalp
- Selim Yaşar
- Buse Naz Çakıroğlu (2 titles)
- Eray Şamdan
- Şevval İlayda Tarhan
- Yusuf Dikeç
- Hatice Akbaş
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- Ahmet Kireççi
- Halil Kaya
- Ruhi Sarıalp
- Adil Atan
- Dursun Ali Eğribaş
- Hüseyin Akbaş
- Hamit Kaplan
- Eyüp Can
- Turgut Aykaç
- Ayhan Taşkın
- Ali Kayalı
- Akif Pirim
- Hamide Bıkçın
- Adem Bereket
- Sedat Artuç
- Reyhan Arabacıoğlu
- Mehmet Özal
- Aydın Polatçı
- Yakup Kılıç
- Servet Tazegül
- Nazmi Avluca
- Rıza Kayaalp (2 titles)
- Yasmani Copello
- Cenk İldem
- Soner Demirtaş
- Nur Tatar
- Hakan Reçber
- Hatice Kübra İlgün
- Yasemin Adar
- Ferhat Arıcan
- Taha Akgül (2 titles)
- Ali Sofuoğlu
- Merve Çoban
- Uğur Aktaş
- Abdullah Yıldırmış
- Mete Gazoz
- Ulaş Tümer
- Buse Tosun Çavuşoğlu
- Esra Yıldız
- Nafia Kuş
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