Ela Naz Özdemir (born 23 April 2006) is a Turkish

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who specializes in

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of 200 metre events. She takes part at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.

Early years in sport

During her primary school education's fourth grade, Özdemir became in her age category of ten-year-old girls Turkish champion in all the 50 m freestyle, 50 m backstroke, 200 m freestyle and 200 m individual medley events at the 2016 Anatolian Youth Swimming League. She set a new Turkish record in the 50 m freestyle of U14 25 m SCM with 6.05 in

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, Turkey on 24 December 2020, and another national record in the 200 m freestyle of U16 25 m SCM with 1:58.17 in Istabul on 28 December 2022. At the

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, Italy, she shared the bronze medal with her teammates in the girls' freestyle relay event.

Sport career

Özdemir is a member of

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. She won the bronze medal in the freestyle relay event at the

2024 European Aquatics Championships The 2024 European Aquatics Championships took place in Belgrade, Serbia, from 10 to 23 June 2024. Schedule A total of 74 medal events are held across 4 disciplines. Competition dates by discipline are: * Swimming: 17–23 June * Open water ...

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, Serbia. The team set a new Turkish record in the same event with 8:01.58 on 17 June 2024. Özdemir was qualified to represent her country at the

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, France together with her teammates

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and

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after they placed within the first 16 teams with 8:05.21 in the Women's freestyle relay event of the

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, Qatar.

Personal life

Ela Naz Özdemir was born in

, Turkey on 23 April 2006. She completed her primary school education at the private Ahmet Şimşek College in

Kartal Kartal () is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 38 km2, and its population is 483,418 (2022). It is located on the Asian side of the city, on the coast of the Marmara Sea between Maltepe and Pendik. De ...

, Istanbul. She is a student at the private science school Nazmi Arıkan Fen Bilimleri

Anatolian High School Anatolian High School, or Anadolu High School (), refers to public high schools in Turkey that admit their students according to high nationwide standardized test (LGS) scores, though this is not required for entering all Anatolian High Schools. ...

in Kartal.

References

External links

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ozdemir, Ela Naz 2006 births Living people People from Kartal Swimmers from Istanbul Turkish female freestyle swimmers 21st-century Turkish sportswomen Galatasaray Swimming swimmers Swimmers at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers for Turkey