Yavuz Ağralı
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| Nationality | Turkish | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 April 1992 Bingöl, Turkey | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Long-distance running | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Marathon | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Zeytinburnu Beştelsiz S.C. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yavuz Ağralı (born 9 April 1992) is a Turkish long-distance running athlete[1] who will compete in the marathon for Turkey at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[1]
Yavuz Ağralı was born in Bingöl, eastern Turkey on 9 April 1992. Competing in marathon, he is a member of the Zeytinburnu Beştelsiz S.C. in Istanbul.[1]
Ağralı became runner-up at the 2014 Zagreb Half Marathon, held within the Balkan Half Marathon Championships.[2] He won the Zagreb Marathon with 2:18:22 held within the 2017 Balkan Marathon Championships.[3] In 2020, he took the silver medal a second time at the Zagreb Half Marathon.[2]
On 23 February 2021, he participated at the Seville Marathon, where he passed the Olympic minimum limit. He then completed a 130-day training camp in Ethiopia, and went to his hometown Bingöl after his return to Turkey. The Turkish Athletic Federation selected him for participation at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Yavuz Ağralı" (in Turkish). Türk Sporu. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
- ^ a b "Milliler'den Balkan Yarı Maraton'da beş kürsü" (in Turkish). Türkiye Atletizm Federasyonu. 22 August 2020. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
- ^ "Yavuz Ağralı maratonda Balkan şampiyonu oldu" (in Turkish). Türkiye Atletizm Federasyonu. 8 October 2017. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
- ^ Korkulutaş, Rıdvan (29 May 2021). "Milli atlet Yavuz Ağralı, 2020 Tokyo Olimpiyat Oyunları'na seçilmenin gururunu yaşıyor". ANadolu News Agency (in Turkish). Retrieved 23 June 2021.
External links
[edit]- Yavuz Ağralı at World Athletics
- Yavuz Ağralı at Olympics.com
- Yavuz Ağralı at Olympedia
- Yavuz Ağralı at the Turkish Olympic Committee's Olimpedya
- Yavuz Ağralı at the Türkiye Milli Olimpiyat Komitesi (in Turkish)
