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| Nationality | Turkish | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1955-05-05) 5 May 1955 (age 69) Kurtköy, Bilecik Province, Turkey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Running | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Marathon, road running | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 2:10:25 London, 1987 marathon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Mehmet Terzi (born 5 May 1955) is a medal-winning former long-distance runner from Turkey, who specialized in running marathons. He served as the president of the Turkish Athletic Federation (Turkish: Türkiye Atletizm Federasyonu) (TAF) for nine years between 2004 and 2013.
Terzi was born on 5 May 1955, at Kurtköy in Bilecik Province, mid-western Turkey. He competed in the 1500m, 5000m, 10000m and cross-country events in various clubs in Eskişehir, Mersin, Ankara, Bursa, Zonguldak and Istanbul after entering athletics in 1970 in Eskişehir. He was a member of Fenerbahçe SK.
Mehmet Terzi won a bronze medal at the 1979 Mediterranean Games in Split, Yugoslavia; and clinched the marathon gold medal at the 1983 Mediterranean Games in Casablanca, Morocco. He also won the Istanbul Marathon in 1985 and the San Francisco Marathon in 1987; after receiving silver medals in the 1978 Paris, France, and 1983 Frankfurt, Germany, marathons.
He competed for Turkey in marathon at the 1984 Los Angeles and 1988 Seoul Olympics, but did not achieve a top rank.
In 2004, Mehmet Terzi was elected president of the Turkish Athletic Federation for a term of four years. He was re-elected for the same post for another four-year term in 2008. He won his third consecutive election in 2012, but was forced to resign after a high-profile doping scandal in Turkish athletics during the summer of 2013. Terzi resigned from the TAF Presidency on 1 August 2013, just before the World Championships in Moscow.
References
- ^ "Mehmet Terzi (Atletizm Federasyonu Başkanı)" (in Turkish). Türkiye Atletizm Federasyonu. Retrieved 11 October 2010.
- Fenerbahçe Athletics by Mehmet Terzi's official Twitter
External links
- Mehmet Terzi at World Athletics
- Mehmet Terzi at Olympics.com
- Mehmet Terzi at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
| Mediterranean Games champions in men's marathon | |
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| At the 2005 Mediterranean Games and 2022 Mediterranean Games the event was replaced by the half marathon |
- 1955 births
- Living people
- Olympic athletes for Turkey
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Turkish male long-distance runners
- Turkish male marathon runners
- Fenerbahçe athletes
- Turkish referees and umpires
- People from Kurtköy, Bilecik
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Turkey
- Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Turkey
- Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Turkey
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1979 Mediterranean Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1983 Mediterranean Games
- Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics
- 20th-century Turkish sportsmen