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Place of Birth: Ağrı, Turkey
About Türkan Erişmiş
- Türkan Erismis (born January 5, 1984 in Agri, Turkey), aka Türkan Bozkurt, Türkan Bozkurt Erismis or Türkan Özata-Erismis, is a Turkish female middle distance runner competing mostly in the 3000 m steeplechase and cross country running events.
- The 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) tall athlete at 52 kg (115 lb) graduated from Nigde University, and works now as a teacher of physical education.In 1996, at the age of twelve, she moved to Ankara leaving her parents in Agri.
- She was discovered and recommended to coach Ali Çelik in Ankara by a former athlete Sermet Timurlenk in her hometown.
- She was a member of Kasimpasaspor in Istanbul before she transferred to Üsküdar Belediyespor.
- Currently, she is running for Besiktas J.K.
- Athletics Team.She won the bronze medal in the 5.975 km event of U23 category at the 2006 European Cross Country Championships held in San Giorgio su Legnano, Italy. Erismis earned a bronze medal in 3000 m steeplechase at the 2005 Summer Universiade held in Izmir, Turkey setting the national record.
- She repeated her same success at the 2007 Summer Universiade held in Bangkok, Thailand setting the national record again.
- She repeated her bronze medal gain at the 2009 Summer Universiade held in Belgrade, Serbia.She participated in the 3000 m steeplechase event at the 2008 Summer Olympics without advancing to the final. On June 13, 2009, Türkan Erismis set the national record in 3000 m steeplechase with 9:28.84 that lasted until June 9, 2012 to be broken by Gülcan Mingir in Sofia, Bulgaria with 9:13.53.
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