Karin Melis Mey, née Karin Mey, (born 31 May 1983) is a

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n-born Turkish female

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er. She became a naturalised Turkish citizen in June 2008, and took the name Melis in addition to her birth name Karin Mey. The tall athlete at is a member of Fenerbahçe Athletics team, where she is coached by Charley Strohmenger. Representing South Africa, one of her first international appearances was a sixth-place finish at the

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. She represented her adopted country at the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

, competing in the qualifying stages of the long jump. She was also sixth at the

2008 IAAF World Athletics Final The 6th IAAF World Athletics Final was held at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Stuttgart, Germany on September 13 and September 14, 2008. A number of road races also took place on the second day of competition. There were seven different starting po ...

that year. Melis Mey qualified for the

2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships The 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held in Turin, Italy, from Friday, 6 March to Sunday, 8 March 2009. The championships took place at the Oval Lingotto indoor arena

but did not make the final. Outdoors she was the

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list at the

2009 Mediterranean Games The 2009 Mediterranean Games, officially the XVI Mediterranean Games ( it, XVI Giochi del Mediterraneo) and commonly known as Pescara 2009, was a multi-sport event held in Pescara, Italy, from 26 June to 5 July 2009. It was governed by the Inte ...

and also in the First League of the

2009 European Team Championships The first European Athletics Team Championships took place on 20 and 21 June 2009. The track and field athletics tournament run by European Athletics was the successor of the old European Cup competition which was held annually until 2008. The Ch ...

. She won the

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by jumping 6.80 m at the

2009 World Championships in Athletics The 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics () were held in Berlin, Germany from 15–23 August 2009. The majority of events took place in the Olympiastadion, while the marathon and racewalking events started and finished at the Brandenburg ...

in Berlin. She jumped at the

2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships The 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics was held between 12 and 14 March at the Aspire Dome in Doha, Qatar. The championships was the first of six IAAF World Athletics Series events to take place in 2010. Bidding and organisation Th ...

, but did not progress beyond the qualifying round. Her personal best jump is 6.93 metres, achieved in July 2007 in

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, which is the South African record for the event. In July 2009 she set a Turkish record of 6.87 metres Mey qualified for participation in

event at the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

. She qualified for the final, but was pulled after testing positive for

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. The positive sample was from the European Championships.Athlete pulled from Olympic final for doping
supersport.com, 18 September 2012 She received a two-year suspension, which expired on 7 August 2014.List of athletes currently serving a period of ineligibility as a result of an anti-doping rule violation under IAAF Rules
IAAF (April 2014). Retrieved 2014-04-15.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mey, Karin Melis 1983 births Living people Fenerbahçe athletes South African female long jumpers South African people of Turkish descent Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Turkey Turkish people of South African descent Naturalized citizens of Turkey Turkish female long jumpers Turkish sportspeople in doping cases Sportspeople from Pretoria Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships medalists Doping cases in athletics Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Turkey Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 2009 Mediterranean Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Mediterranean Games

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