Şeref Osmanoğlu (born Sheryf El-Sheryf; 2 January 1989 in

Simferopol Simferopol () is the second-largest city in the Crimea, Crimean Peninsula. The city, along with the rest of Crimea, is internationally recognised as part of Ukraine, and is considered the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. However, ...

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) is a Turkish and former

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(until May 2013) athlete who competes in the triple jump and occasionally long jump.

Career

He won gold medal at the

2011 European Athletics U23 Championships [] The 8th European Athletics U23 Championships were held on 14–17 July 2011 in the Městský stadion (Ostrava), Městský stadion in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Russia topped the medal table with 20 medals in total, including 9 golds (after revisi ...

with a leap of 17.72m, bettering his personal best by 80 cm. In 2012, he won the silver medal in the triple jump at the

European Athletics Championships The European Athletics Championships is a biennial (from 2010) athletics event organised by the European Athletics Association and is recognised as the elite continental outdoor athletics championships for Europe. Editions First held, for men ...

. He has a

mother while his father, a doctor, is from

Sudan Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...

. He changed his allegiance to Turkey in 2013, also changing his name to Şeref Osmanoğlu. The Turkish federation paid $152,000 to the Ukrainian federation for the transfer.Глава Федерации легкой атлетики: "На базы в Крым ехать унизительно"
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Competition record

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Osmanoglu, Seref 1989 births Living people Sportspeople from Simferopol Ukrainian male triple jumpers Ukrainian male long jumpers Turkish male triple jumpers Turkish male long jumpers Ukrainian people of Sudanese descent Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Ukraine Olympic athletes for Turkey European Athletics Championships medalists Ukrainian emigrants to Turkey Naturalized citizens of Turkey Olympic male triple jumpers