Evin Demir

Turkish racewalker

Evin Demir

Demir in 2018

Personal information

Born

(2001-02-16) 16 February 2001 (age 23)
Sancaktepe, Istanbul, Turkey

Sport

Race walk

Club

Enka SK

Medal record

Women’s athletics

Representing Turkey
European U20 Championships
	2019 Borås	10,000 m race walk
European Race Walking Cup
	2019 Alytus	10 km race walk (U20)

Evin Demir (born 16 February 2001) is a Turkish race walker specialising in the 5000 m and 10,000 m events.^[1] She is a native of Sancaktepe in Istanbul.^[2]^[3] She was a member of Sancaktepe Spo,^[3] before she was transferred by Enka SK.^[4]

Sports career

In 2018, Demir competed in the 5,000 m race walk event of the 2018 European Athletics U18 Championships in Győr, Hungary placing fourth.^[5] she took part at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina.^[6] She placed sixth in the 5,000 m race walk event.^[1]

At the 2019 Balkan Race Walking Championships in Alexandroupoli, Greece, Demir captured the gold medal in the 10 km race walk event's U20 category.^[7] She won the silver medal in the 10 km event's U20 category of the 2019 European Race Walking Cup held in Alytus, Lithuania, behind her countrywoman Meryem Bekmez.^[8] In 2019, she became silver medalist in the 10,000 m event at the European U20 Championships in Borås, Sweden, again behind Bekmez.^[9]

Competition record

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Time	Notes
Representing Turkey
2018	European U18 Championships	Győr, Hungary	4th	5,000 m race walk	24:27.19	^[5]
2018	Summer Youth Olympics	Buenos Aires, Argentina	6th	5,000 m race walk	23:25.54	^[1]
2019	Balkan Race Walking Championships	Alexandroupoli, Greece	1st	10 km race walk (U20)	45:54	^[7]
	European Race Walking Cup	Alytus, Lithuania	2nd	10 km race walk (U20)	46:49	^[8]
	European U20 Championships	Borås, Sweden	2nd	10,000 m race walk	46:38.68	^[9]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Evin Demir". IAAF. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
^ "Meryem ve Evin Madalyaya Yürüdü". Bianet (in Turkish). 22 July 2019. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
^ ^a ^b "Sancaktepeli Evin Demir'den Avrupa Şampiyonası'nda Gümüş Madalya". Sancaktepe Ses (in Turkish). 24 May 2019. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
^ Taner, Rojhat (28 April 2019). "Kendi rekorunu egale etti". Spartaküs TV (in Turkish). Retrieved 23 July 2019.
^ ^a ^b "Evin Demir Avrupa dördüncüsü oldu Evin Demir Avrupa dördüncüsü oldu" (in Turkish). Türkiye Atletizim Federasyonu. 5 July 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
^ "Buenos Aires'te Evin Demir ilk etabı 5. bitirdi" (in Turkish). Türkiye Atletizim Federasyonu. 13 October 2018. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
^ ^a ^b "Balkan Race Walking Championships 20 April 2019 Greece". Association of the Balkan Athletics Federations. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
^ ^a ^b "Turkey's Bekmez bags gold medal at European Race Walking Cup". Daily Sabah. 20 May 2019. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
^ ^a ^b "Meryem Bekmez'den altın madalya". BirGün (in Turkish). 21 July 2019. Archived from the original on 22 July 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2019.