Ruhi Sarıalp, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ruhi Sarıalp

Turkish track and field athlete

Date of Birth: 15-Dec-1924

Place of Birth: Manisa, Turkey

Date of Death: 03-Mar-2001

Profession: military personnel, athletics competitor

Nationality: Turkey

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Ruhi Sarialp (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. 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 Sarialp 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 1952After leaving the active sports, Ruhi Sarialp served as a lecturer for physical education in the School of Maritime at Istanbul Technical University (ITÜ).
The indoor sports hall of ITÜ, located in the Tuzla district of Istanbul, is named after him.
He was a member of the supreme council of the Fenerbahçe SK athletic branch Fenerbahçe Athletics.He died on March 3, 2001 in Izmir due to agonal respiration, and was buried in the Edirnekapi Martyr's Cemetery in Istanbul.
He was married with Ayse Cebesoy, a niece of the renowned Turkish statesman Ali Fuat Cebesoy.