Nalan Ramazanoğlu (born 23 January 1980 in
Istanbul
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, Turkey), also known as Nalan Mete Ramazanoğlu, is a Turkish professional basketball player and captain of
Fenerbahçe İstanbul and currently player of
national team
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. She is 1.87 m tall and weighs 75 kg. Her name was Nalan Mete before getting married. She also played in
Galatasaray Istanbul before come back her youth level team
Fenerbahçe İstanbul.
She is playing for
Fenerbahçe İstanbul since 1998 in senior level. She played 45 times for
Turkey national women's basketball team
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Competit ...
.
She was the team leader in free-throw average with 88.9% and second in three-point shot average with 39.2% (after
Nicole Powell
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with 42.3%) in 2005–06 season.
She was member of the
national team
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, which won
gold medal
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at the
2005 Mediterranean Games
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in
Almería
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, Spain.
Achievements with Fenerbahçe
*Turkish Championship
**Winners (6): 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007
*Turkish Cup
**Winners (7): 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
*Turkish presidents Cup
**Winners (6): 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2007
See also
*
Turkish women in sports
Turkish women have an active participation in many sports branches and have several important trophies, especially in athletics, weightlifting, combat sports, volleyball and basketball.
Participation in Olympics Pioneers
The first Turkish ...
External links
Player profile at fenerbahce.org
1980 births
Living people
Turkish women's basketball players
Fenerbahçe women's basketball players
Galatasaray S.K. (women's basketball) players
20th-century Turkish sportswomen
21st-century Turkish sportswomen
Basketball players from Istanbul
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