Saliha Şahin (born 5 November 1998) is a Turkish professional volleyball player. She is tall at and plays in the Outside Hitter position. She last played for

Eczacıbaşı Dynavit Eczacıbaşı Dynavit is the professional women's volleyball department of Eczacıbaşı S.K., a Turkish sports club based in Istanbul, Turkey. The team plays its home matches at the Eczacıbaşı Spor Salonu hall in Istanbul. Eczacıbaşı has ...

in Istanbul. She is a member of the Turkey women's national volleyball team.

Club career

Saliha Şahin is tall at , and plays in the Outside Hitter position. She started her sport career in the academy of Karayolları SK in her hometown Ankara in 2015. In 2018, she transferred to the Istanbul-based

, formerly Eczacıbaşı Vitra. She was loaned out to her former club for the 2018–19 season. In 2019, she won the Spor Toto Champions Cup with Eczacıbaşı Dynavit. She took part at the 2019 FIVB Club World Championship in Shaoxing, China, where she won the silver medal. In the 2019–20 season, she was laoned out to Sarıyer Bld. SK. She experienced her club's champion title at the 2020–21 AXA Sigorta Champions Cup. She won also the

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. She won the bronze medal at the

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in Antalya, Turkey. On 22 May 2023, she announced that she left Eczacıbaşı Dynavit, where she played for four years. She was loaned out to the Polish club KPS Chemik Police to play in the 2023–24 season Tauron Liga.

International career

Saliha won the gold medal with the Turkey U-17 team at the 2015 European Youth Summer Olympic Festivall in

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, Azerbaijan. She played for the Turkey U-19 team to play at the 2016 U19 European Championship in Nitra, Slovakia, where she took the bronze medal. She played in the Turkey U-20 team, which placed fourth at the 2017 FIVB U20 World Championship in Mexico. She was part of the Turkey U-23 team, which became champion at the 2017 FIVB U23 World Championship in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Şahin became a member of the Turkey national team. She won the silver medal at the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Nations League in Nanjing, China. She played in the bronze medalist team at the

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in Tarragona, Spain. At the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Nations League in Ankara, Turkey, her team placed fourth. She was part of the national team, which placed eight at the 2022 FIVB World Championship in Poland and the Netherlands. She won the gold medal at the

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, United States.

Personal life

Saliha Şahin was born in Ankara, Turkey on 5 November 1998. She has two sisters. Her two-years younger sister

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is also a professional volleyball player in the Setter position playing in the same club.

Honours

Club

Eczacıbaşı Dynavit

; Turkish Women's Volleyball League : 2021–22 :

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; Turkish Women's Volleyball Cup : 2020–21 : 2021–22 ; Turkish Women's Volleyball Super Cup : 2019, 2020 : 2021–22 ; CEV Women's Champions League :

; FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship :

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; Women's CEV Cup : 2021–22

International

; European Youth Olympic Festival :

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; Women's Junior European Volleyball Championship :

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; FIVB Volleyball Women's U23 World Championship :

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;

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; FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League :

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References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sahin, Saliha 1998 births Living people Volleyball players from Ankara Turkish women's volleyball players 21st-century Turkish sportswomen Turkey women's international volleyball players Competitors at the 2018 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Turkey Mediterranean Games medalists in volleyball Eczacıbaşı Dynavit players Turkish expatriate volleyball players Turkish expatriate sportspeople in Poland Expatriate volleyball players in Poland