Yavuz Can Explained
Yavuz Can (born 23 February 1987) is a Turkish sprinter specialising in the 400 metres. He won the silver medal in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2013 Mediterranean Games. In addition, he competed at two outdoor and two indoor European Championships, as well as the 2012 World Indoor Championships in his native Turkey.
His personal bests in the 400 metres are 45.64 seconds outdoors (Zeulenroda 2016) and 46.87 seconds indoors (Istanbul 2015), both performances were labelled as Turkish national record in these disciplines.
Competition record
Representing |
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2011 | Universiade | Shenzhen, China | 10th (sf) | 400 m | 46.55 |
2012 | World Indoor Championships | Istanbul, Turkey | 10th (h) | 4x400 m relay | 3:11.28 |
European Championships | Helsinki, Finland | – | 400 m | DQ |
13th (h) | 4x400 m relay | 3:11.44 |
2013 | European Indoor Championships | Gothenburg, Sweden | 9th (sf) | 400 m | 47.26 |
Mediterranean Games | Mersin, Turkey | 6th | 400 m | 46.70 |
bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 4x400 m relay | 3:05.28 |
Universiade | Kazan, Russia | 10th (sf) | 400 m | 46.65 |
3rd | 4x400 m relay | 3:06.36 |
2014 | European Championships | Zürich, Switzerland | 32nd (h) | 400 m | 46.90 |
12th (h) | 4x400 m relay | 3:07.68 |
2015 | European Indoor Championships | Prague, Czech Republic | 13th (sf) | 400 m | 47.81 |
2016 | World Indoor Championships | Portland, United States | 8th (sf) | 400 m | 46.82 |
European Championships | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 7th (sf) | 400 m | 45.51 |
9th (h) | 4x400 m relay | 3:04.65 |
2017 | Islamic Solidarity Games | Baku, Azerbaijan | 5th (sf) | 400 m | 46.64 |
bgcolor=gold | 1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:06.83 |
World Championships | London, United Kingdom | 16th (h) | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:15.45 |
2018 | Mediterranean Games | Tarragona, Spain | 5th | 400 m | 46.37 |
4th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:05.28 |
European Championships | Berlin, Germany | 20th (h) | 400 m | 46.58 |
13th (h) | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:07.83 |
2019 | European Indoor Championships | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 14th (h) | 400 m | 47.63 |
2021 | World Relays | Chorzów, Poland | 12th (h) | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:06.05 | |
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