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Süreyya Ayhan (born 6 September 1978 in Korgun, province of Çankırı) is a Turkish middle-runner who won the medal as the first woman in her country to compete in international track and field championship.
At the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, she became eighth in the 1500 meter run. At the 2002 European Championships in Munich she won the gold medal over this distance. The best place in front of a light athletes from Turkey at European Championships was a third place in Ruhi Sarıalp in 1950. As a result, Ayhan was voted Europe's Lighthouse of the Year. At the 2003 World Cup in Paris / Saint-Denis, she finished second behind Tatjana Tomaschova.
In 2002, she received the Sedat-Simavi Prize for Sport.
She is married to her trainer Yücel Kop, a former skier. The relationship aroused excitement because it became known in public when Kop was still married to another woman.
In August 2004 a two-year suspension was imposed on them because of an attempt to deliver a foreign urine sample at a dopestest. After being positively tested for anabolic steroids in September 2007, she was denied a lifelong ban because of doping. On 30 May 2008, however, the Turkish sports federation reduced their bar to four years. In November 2009, a new life-long suspension took place by the International Sports Court. Weblinks Edit sourcetext Edit FootnotesQuote text European champions in the 1500 m run
1969: Jaroslava Jehličková | 1971: Karin Burneleit | 1974: Gunhild Hoffmeister | 1978: Giana Romanowa | 1982: Olga Dwirna | 1986: Rawilja Agletdinowa 1990: Snežana Pajkić | 1994: Ljudmila Rogatschowa | 1998: Swetlana Masterkowa | 2002: Süreyya Ayhan | 2006: Tatjana Tomaschowa | 2010: Nuria Fernández | 2012: Gamze Bulut | 2014: Sifan Hassan | 2016: Angelika Cichocka
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