Melda Fatma İdrisoğlu (born ), also known as Melda Fatma Derviş after her marriage, is a Turkish female

water polo Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with the ...

player, playing at the point position. She is part of the

Turkey women's national water polo team The Turkey women's water polo team is a water polo team that represents Turkey at water polo competitions. Results European Championship Mediterranean Games Current squad Roster for the 2018 Women's European Water Polo Championship. Head co ...

. She competed at the

2016 Women's European Water Polo Championship The 2016 Women's European Water Polo Championship was held from 10 to 22 January 2016 in Belgrade, Serbia. Hungary won their third title by defeating the Netherlands 9–7 in the final. Italy captured the bronze medal after a 10–9 win over Spai ...

. She competed also in half marathon and open water swimming events. She is a physician specialized in Pediatrics.

Early life

Melda Fatma İdrisoğlu was born on 31 January 1989. She is a native of

Lüleburgaz Lüleburgaz (, Modern Greek: Λουλέ Μπουργκάς ''Lule Burgas'', Bulgarian: Люлебургаз ''Lyuleburgaz''), Bergoulion (Ancient Greek: Βεργούλιον) or Arcadiopolis (Ancient Greek: Αρκαδιόυπολις ''Arkadiópoli ...

Kırklareli Province Kırklareli Province ( tr, ) is a Provinces of Turkey, province in northwestern Turkey on the west coast of the Black Sea. The province neighbours Bulgaria to the north along a long border. It borders the province of Edirne to the west and the ...

She studied Medicine and served after graduation as a research assistant at

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. She works as a physician specialized in

Pediatrics Pediatrics ( also spelled ''paediatrics'' or ''pædiatrics'') is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, paediatrics covers many of their youth until th ...

Sports career

She is a member of Adalar Water Sports Club playing water poloo. İdrisoğlu competed also at

open water swimming Open water swimming is a swimming discipline which takes place in outdoor bodies of water such as open oceans, lakes, and rivers. The beginning of the modern age of open water human swimming, swimming is sometimes taken to be May 3, 1810, when L ...

in her age category,

triathlon A triathlon is an endurance multisport race consisting of Swimming (sport), swimming, Cycle sport, cycling, and running over various distances. Triathletes compete for fastest overall completion time, racing each segment sequentially with the t ...

and

half marathon A half marathon is a road running event of —half the distance of a marathon. It is common for a half marathon event to be held concurrently with a marathon or a 5K race, using almost the same course with a late start, an early finish or shortcu ...

. At the 2014 International Bozcaada Half Marathon, she placed third in the 10 km event. She became runner-up the Istanbul Sprint Triatlon (Istanbul Triathon and Aquathlon) in 2015. She took part at 2016 Gölcük Nationali Open Water Swim and at the 2016 Kocaeli Open Water Swim , winning the 26-35 age category in both competitions. She participated at the 11th International Arena Aquamasters Open Waters Swimming Championship held in

Bodrum Bodrum () is a port city in Muğla Province, southwestern Turkey, at the entrance to the Gulf of Gökova. Its population was 35,795 at the 2012 census, with a total of 136,317 inhabitants residing within the district's borders. Known in ancient t ...

in 2019. In 2020, Melda Fatma Derviş took the second place in the women's category of the Istanbul Sprint Triathlon in 2020.

References

1989 births Living people People from Lüleburgaz Turkish female water polo players Place of birth missing (living people) Turkish female long-distance swimmers Turkish female triathletes Turkish female long-distance runners Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine alumni Turkish women physicians Turkish physicians Turkish pediatricians 20th-century Turkish sportswomen 21st-century Turkish sportswomen {{Turkey-waterpolo-bio-stub