Şadan Derya Erke (born November 11, 1983) is a Turkish former swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events. She is a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2004) and a member of Istanbul Swimming Club ( tr, İstanbul Yüzme İhtisas Kulübü). She previously held Turkish records in the 50, 100, and 200 m backstroke, until they were all broken by

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in 2012. Erke is also a graduate of Marmara University in Istanbul. Erke made her first Turkish team, as a 16-year-old teen, at the

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. There, she failed to reach the semifinals in any of her individual events, finishing forty-second in the

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(1:07.26), and twenty-ninth in the 200 m backstroke (2:21.28). At the

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in Athens, Erke maintained her program on her second Olympic appearance, competing again in the 100 and 200 m backstroke. She posted FINA B-standard entry times of 1:04.28 (100 m backstroke) and 2:19.11 (200 m backstroke) from the

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in Madrid, Spain. In the

, Erke challenged six other swimmers in heat two, including 14-year-olds Anastassiya Prilepa of Kazakhstan and

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of Uzbekistan. She raced to third place and thirty-fourth overall by 0.23 of a second behind Thailand's

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with a time of 1:05.38. In the 200 m backstroke, Erke shared a twenty-first place tie with Italy's Alessia Filippi from the morning's preliminaries. Swimming in the same heat as her first, she posted a lifetime best of 2:17.29 to claim another third spot by a 3.22-second margin behind winner Evelyn Verrasztó of Hungary.

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1983 births Living people Turkish female swimmers Olympic swimmers of Turkey Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Female backstroke swimmers Sportspeople from Istanbul Marmara University alumni 21st-century Turkish women {{Turkey-swimming-bio-stub