Yiğit Aslan
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| Nationality | Turkish | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 March 2003 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Enka SK | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Wisconsin–Madison[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Yiğit Aslan (born 11 March 2003) is a Turkish swimmer competing in freestyle events. He obtained a quota for the 2020 Summer Olympics.[2]
Inspired by a poster about a swimming course in a shopping mall, he started swimming sport at the age of ten.[3] Aslan is a member of Enka SK.[2] He was coached by the Italian Corrado Rosso in the national team.[3]
He won the bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay event at the 2019 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival held in Baku, Azerbaijan. He competed in the 400 m, 800 m, 1500 m and 4 × 200 m freestyle relay events of the 2020 European Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
As of January 2021, he was the owner of 38 national records in various events and age categories, all set in the last five years.[3] He is the holder of national records in the 800 m (7:51.60) and 1500 m (14:44.03) events. At the 2020 European Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, he set a new national record with 3:50.59 in the 400 m juniors (age 17–18) event.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Ortegon, Karl (20 May 2020). "2020 Turkish National Champ Yigit Aslan Chooses Wisconsin for 2021". SwimSwam. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
- ^ a b "Yiğit Aslan" (in Turkish). Türk Sporu. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
- ^ a b c Küçükşahin, Sercan (7 January 2021). "Kariyerine 38 Türkiye rekoru sığdıran milli yüzücü, gözünü". Anadolu News Agency (in Turkish). Retrieved 3 July 2021.
- ^ "Milli Yüzücü Yiğit Aslan'dan rekor". TRT Spor (in Turkish). 18 May 2021. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
External links
[edit]- Yigit Aslan at World Aquatics
- Yigit Aslan at Swimrankings.net
- Yigit Aslan at Olympics.com
- Yiğit Aslan at Olympedia
- Yiğit Aslan at the Turkish Olympic Committee's Olimpedya
- Yiğit Aslan at the Türkiye Milli Olimpiyat Komitesi (in Turkish)
- 2003 births
- Living people
- Turkish male freestyle swimmers
- Enkaspor swimmers
- Wisconsin Badgers men's swimmers
- Turkish expatriate swimmers in the United States
- 21st-century Turkish sportsmen
- Olympic swimmers for Turkey
- Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Islamic Solidarity Games gold medalists for Turkey
- Islamic Solidarity Games silver medalists for Turkey
- Islamic Solidarity Games medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games