Nevin Yanıt
Yanıt at the 2012 European Athletics Championships
Personal information
NationalityTurkish
Born (1986-02-16) 16 February 1986
Mersin, Turkey
Height1.65 m (5.4 ft)[1]
Weight60 kg (130 lb)[1]
Sport
SportRunning
Event(s)60 metres hurdles
100 metres hurdles
ClubFenerbahçe Athletics
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
  • 60 m hs: 8.00 (2007)
  • 100 m hs: 12.63 (2010)
Medal record
Representing  Turkey
Women's athletics
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
European Championships 1 0 0
Summer Universiade 1 1 0
Mediterranean Games 1 0 0
European U23 Championships 1 0 0
European Championships
Disqualified2012 Helsinki100 m hurdles
Gold medal – first place2010 Barcelona100 m hurdles
European Indoor Championships
Disqualified2013 Gothenburg60 m hurdles
European U23 Championships
Gold medal – first place2007 Debrecen100 m hurdles
Mediterranean Games
Gold medal – first place2009 Pescara100 m hurdles
Universiade
Gold medal – first place2009 Belgrade100 m hurdles
Silver medal – second place2007 Bangkok100 m hurdles

Nevin Yanıt (born February 16, 1986) is a Turkish former sprinter specializing in high hurdling.

On 29 August 2013, Yanit was banned from athletic competition for two years following a failed doping test in February 2013.[2][3] After IAAF appealed the length of the ban to the Court of Arbitration for sport, her ban was extended for a further year.[4]

Biography

Yanit in 2010 with Turkey flag, at her 1st European title.

Yanıt won the 100m hurdles at the 2007 European Under 23 Athletics Championships. She won the silver medal at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand.[5]

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, she reached the semi-finals in the 100m hurdles. Yanıt participated at the 2009 Mediterranean Games in Pescara, Italy and won the gold medal in women's 100 m hurdles. She won the 100 m hurdles at the European Cup First League Group B on June 18, 2006 in Thessaloniki, Greece. At the 2010 European Athletics Championships in Barcelona, she won the gold medal in the 100m hurdles, edging favourites, Derval O'Rourke and Carolin Nytra.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, she progressed to the final in the 100 m hurdles, taking fifth place-a result she of which she was later stripped. At the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden, she won the gold medal-a medal of which she was later stripped.

Doping ban

In 2013 the Turkish Athletics Federation announced that Yanit had failed a doping test, after traces of testosterone and the anabolic steroid Stanozolol were found in a testing sample. On 29 August 2013, a two-year ban was handed down by the Turkish Federation, precluding Yanit from competition until 5 August 2015. Following IAAF's appeal to the Court of Arbitration for sport, her ban was extended to 3 years for aggravating circumstances. In addition to the positive for two prohibited substances her biological passport data showed that she had been blood doping between June 2012 and February 2013.[4]

The IAAF later confirmed that her results since 28 June 2012 had all been voided and she was stripped of her European Championship title and 5th-place finish at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[6]

Personal life

Yanıt competed between 2007-2008 for Vestel Athletics.[7] In 2008, she joined Fenerbahçe Athletics. She majored in Physical Education at Mersin University,[5][8]

In 2011, an athletics venue in Mersin with 4,500 seating capacity, built in 2010, was named in her honor.[9]

Achievements

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
Representing  Turkey
2004 World Junior Championships Grosseto, Italy 19th (h) 100m hurdles 13.98 (wind: +1.0 m/s)
— 4 × 400 m relay DQ
2005 European Junior Championships Kaunas, Lithuania 9th (sf) 100m hurdles 13.91
Universiade Izmir, Turkey 16th (sf) 100m hurdles 13.89
2006 European Championships Gothenburg, Sweden 14th (h) 4 × 100 m relay 46.32
2007 European Indoor Championships Birmingham, United Kingdom 9th (h) 60m hurdles 8.11
European U23 Championships Debrecen, Hungary 1st 100m hurdles 12.90 (wind: -0.3 m/s)
Universiade Bangkok, Thailand 2nd 100m hurdles 13.07
World Championships Osaka, Japan 12th (sf) 100m hurdles 12.85
2008 World Indoor Championships Valencia, Spain 14th (sf) 60m hurdles 8.19
Olympic Games Beijing, China 14th (sf) 100m hurdles 13.28
2009 Mediterranean Games Pescara, Italy 1st 100m hurdles 13.08
Universiade Belgrade, Serbia 1st 100m hurdles 12.89
World Championships Berlin, Germany 15th (sf) 100m hurdles 12.99
2010 European Championships Barcelona, Spain 1st 100m hurdles 12.63
2011 Universiade Shenzhen, China 6th 100m hurdles 13.27
World Championships Daegu, South Korea 22nd (sf) 100m hurdles 13.31
2012 European Championships Helsinki, Finland DSQ 100m hurdles 12.81
Olympic Games London, United Kingdom DSQ 100m hurdles 12.58 NR
2013 European Indoor Championships Gothenburg, Sweden DSQ 60m hurdles 7.89 EL NR

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Yanit Nevin". IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  2. ↑ "Nevin Yanit: Drugs ban for European hurdles champion". BBC News. 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  3. ↑ "Nevin Yanit banned for two years for doping". The Independent. 2013-08-29. Archived from the original on 2022-06-18. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  4. 1 2 Court of Arbitration for Sport: Nevin Yanit's suspension increased from 2 years to 3 years, cas-tas.org, 6 March 2015. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  5. 1 2 "Öğrencimiz Nevin Yanıt Pekin Olimpiyatları'nda yarı finale kaldı" (in Turkish). Mersin University. 2008-08-18. Archived from the original on 2008-09-16. Retrieved 2009-07-24.
  6. ↑ "Doping, Nevin Yanıt'a pahalıya patladı" (in Turkish). yonhaber.com. 2015-07-01. Archived from the original on 2015-07-01. Retrieved 2015-07-01.
  7. ↑ "Nevin Yanıt" (in Turkish). Vestel Atletizm. Archived from the original on 2008-12-20. Retrieved 2009-07-24.
  8. ↑ The Champion, Fenerbahçe
  9. ↑ "Nevin Yanıt Atletizm Kompleksi" (in Turkish). Mersin Gençlik Hizmetleri ve Spor İl Müdürlüğü. Archived from the original on 2013-06-16. Retrieved 2013-05-15.
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