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About Sultan Haydar
- Sultan Haydar (pronounced [sul'tan 'hajda?]; born May 23, 1985 in Golerogi, Ethiopia) is an Ethiopian-born Turkish female long-distance runner.
- The 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) tall athlete at 55 kg (121 lb) is a member of Enkaspor, where she is coached by Nikola Boric.Born Chaltu Girma Meshesha in Ethiopia, she started off her career as a middle distance runner and was the bronze medalist in the 800 metres at the 2005 African Junior Athletics Championships.
- Her final international appearance for Ethiopia came at the 2006 African Championships in Athletics, where she showed a talent for racewalking as she came sixth in the women's 20 km walk.
- She transferred her eligibility to Turkey in 2008. Haydar's first competition for Turkey was the 2008 European Cross Country Championships.
- She started the women's under-23 race quickly but yielded her early lead and dropped out at the halfway point.
- She was the 1500 metres gold medalist at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships, then won the under-23 race at the 2009 European Cross Country Championships later that year.
- At the beginning of 2011 she made her debut over the half marathon and recorded a time of 1:10:02 hours for seventh place at the high calibre RAK Half Marathon.
- She ran in the 1500 m at the 2010 European Athletics Championships, but failed to finish her heat.
- She turned to the 3000 metres at the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships, where she set a personal best of 9:03.50 minutes to win her heat, but was slower in the final, coming in ninth place.
- Outdoors, she competed for Turkey on home soil for the First League of the 2011 European Team Championships and won the 3000 m in a long-distance event sweep with Alemitu Bekele Degfa and Binnaz Uslu.
- Haydar also won the bronze in the 1500 m. She was the leader for much of the 2011 Istanbul Marathon, but slowed after 35 km and eventually finished seventh.
- The 2012 Paris Marathon saw her establish herself as a top level marathon runner.
- In spite of being well-beaten by winner Tirfi Tsegaye Beyene, Haydar improved her best by over ten minutes to set a Turkish national record mark of 2:25:07 hours in second place.Sultan Haydar qualified for participation in the marathon event at the 2012 Summer Olympics but managed only 72nd place with a slow time of 2:38:26 hours.
- She ended the year with a third-place finish at the Istanbul Marathon.
- In her first marathon of 2013, she came third at the Rome City Marathon with a time of 2:27:10 hours.
- On November 17, 2013, Sultan Haydar repeated her third-place success at the Istanbul Marathon finishing with 2.29.40 after her countrywoman Elvan Abeylegesse.
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