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Nurşah Sancak
Personal information
Born (1997-10-24) 24 October 1997 (age 27)
Bursa, Turkey
Nationality Turkish
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Playing position Right wing
Club information
Current club Kastamonu Bld. GSK
Number 3
Senior clubs
Years Team
2018–2019
 Osmangazi Bld. SK
2019–2022
 Yalıkavak SK
2022–
 Kastamonu Bld. GSK
National team
Years Team
 Turkey
2015
 Turkey U-19 beach handball

Nurşah Sancak (born 24 October 1997) is a Turkish handballer, who plays in the right wing position for Kastamonu Bld. GSK in the Turkish Super League and the Turkey national team.[1]

Personal life

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Nurşah Sancak was born in Bursa, Turkey on 24 October 1997.[2][3] She studied at Nişantaşı University in Istanbul.[2]

Club career

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She started playing handball in the high school when a handball coach founded a school team, and invited her to join. Her mother was not willing to let her participate in sports as she was very introvert. Believing in her talent, however, her class teacher convinced her mother. Her father approved from the very beginning.[2]

She is 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) tall. She plays in the right wing position.[3]

Osmangazi Bld. SK

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She started her sport career in the farm team of Osmangazi Bld. SK in her hometown Bursa. She was promoted to the A team, and played in the 2018–19 season of the Turkish Women's Handball Super League.[1][2][4][5]

Yalıkavak SK

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For the 2019–20 Super League season, she went to Bodrum, Muğla to join Yalıkavak SK.[2] She played in total three seasons.[1]

Kastamonu Bld. GSK

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Late July 2022, she transferred to Kastamonu Bld. GSK.[6] Mid March 2023, she suffered an anterior cruciate ligament rupture on her left leg, and underwent a reconstructive surgery in Istanbul.[7] She won the 2022–23 Turkeish Super League with her team.[8]

International career

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Sancak was admitted to the national team in June 2019.[2][4] She played at the 2022 European Championship qualification.[9][10]

In 2015, she was called up to the Turkey women's national under-19 beach handball team for participation at the 2015 European Beach Handball Championship's junior women's division in Lloret de Mar, Spain.[11]

Honours

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Turkish Women's Handball Super League
Yalıkavak SK
Runners-up (2): 2020–21, 2021–22
Kastamonu Bld. GSK
Champions (1): 2022–23

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Nurşah Sancak" (in Turkish). THF Türkiye Hentbol Federasyonu. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Nurşah Sancak: Emeklerimizin karşılığını aldık". 48 Spor (in Turkish). 28 April 2020. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Nursah Sancak". Handball Base. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
  4. ^ a b "Osmangazi Belediyespor'dan milli takıma 3 isim". Fanatik (in Turkish). 12 June 2019. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
  5. ^ "Bursa'dan galibiyetle döndü". İstamonu (in Turkish). 5 October 2018. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
  6. ^ "Belediyespor'un yeni transferi Nurşah Sancak: "Heyecanlıyım"". Kastamonu (in Turkish). 20 July 2022. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
  7. ^ "Nurşah Sancak, ameliyat oldu". CNG haber (in Turkish). 16 March 2023. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
  8. ^ "Kadınlar Süper Ligi'nde şampiyon Kastamonu Belediyesi". News Findy (in Turkish). 10 June 2023. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  9. ^ "Yalıkavakspor'dan Milli Takıma 4 Oyuncu…". Arena Bodrum Haber (in Turkish). 3 October 2021. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
  10. ^ "Yalıkavakspor'dan Altı Oyuncu Milli Takımda…". Arena Bodrum Haber (in Turkish). 11 February 2022. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
  11. ^ "Genç Milli Plaj Hentbol Takımı kampı" (in Turkish). THF Türkiye Hentbol Federasyonu. 9 June 2015. Retrieved 21 May 2023.


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