Ayşenur Duman (born 1 March 1999) is a Turkish female Olympian

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Early life

Ayşenur Duman was born in Peçenek village of Çamlıdere district of

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, Turkey. She lives in

Gerede Gerede is a town and a district of Bolu Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. It is located on the highway from Istanbul to Ankara (approximately from Ankara, where the road to the Black Sea coast branches off). It covers an area of , and ...

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. She is a student of Physical Education at

Abant Izzet Baysal University Abant Izzet Baysal University ( tr, Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi) is a public university in Bolu, Turkey. It was founded on 3 July 1992 by Izzet Baysal. It has campuses in the city center and three districts of Bolu (Gerede, Mengen, Mu ...

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Career

Duman began skiing at the age of ten encouraged by her physical education teacher. In Gerede, where she now lives, she found opportunity to exercise in a training camp center for skiing. She performs diverse exercises daily for 1.5 – 3 hours, and does cross-country skiing for a day. She was admitted to the national team in 2014. As of 2018, she has a participation record of 65 international competitions with 19 medals won. She is coached by the Turkish female cross-country skier

Kelime Çetinkaya Kelime Aydın Çetinkaya (born 15 June 1982) is a Turkish cross-country skier. She became the first Turkish female athlete to compete in the Winter Olympics. She has competed in four Olympics as part of the Turkish national team in 2002, 2006, ...

, who competed four times in

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. Duman took part at the Cross-Country Skiing Balkan Cup held in

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on February 27–28, 2016, and won the bronze medal in the women's 5 km freestyle event and the silver medal in the women's 10 km freestyle event. She participated at the

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held in

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, Turkey. She ranked within the first ten, the best success ever for Turkey in that sport discipline. She won a bronze medal at the International

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Championships held in

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, Greece on September 1–3, 2017. Duman was qualified to take part at the

Cross-country skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics Cross-country skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics was held at the Alpensia Cross-Country Skiing Centre in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The twelve events took place between 10 and 25 February 2018. Qualification A maximum of 310 quota spots were av ...

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, South Korea. She was named flagbearer along with Furkan Akar at the opening ceremony of the

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, China.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Duman, Aysenur 1999 births Living people People from Çamlıdere Sportspeople from Ankara Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University alumni Turkish female cross-country skiers Olympic cross-country skiers of Turkey Cross-country skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Cross-country skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics 21st-century Turkish sportswomen

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