Kelime Çetinkaya
Kelime Aydın Çetinkaya | |
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Born | Kars, Turkey | 15 June 1982
Height | 160 |
Ski club | Esentepe Sports Club |
Kelime Aydın Çetinkaya (born 15 June 1982) is a Turkish female cross country skier. Since 2001 she has competed in four Olympic Games as part of the Turkish national team, in 2002, 2006 and 2010.
Career
Kelime Çetinkaya has competed in international competitions since 2000. In 2001, she competed as part of the Turkish junior team, and as an adult in the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup in years 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009. She had two victories in the FIS World Cup races. Çetinkaya's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was 41st in the 30 km event at Sapporo in 2007. Her best World Cup finish was 46th in a sprint event in Italy in 2004.
Olympic Games
In 2002, Çetinkaya became the first Turkish athlete to take part in the Winter Olympics. Competing in three Winter Olympics, she earned her best finish of 49th in the 30 km event at Turin in 2006.
She was the flagbearer for Turkey at the 2010 Olympics.
References
- 1982 births
- Living people
- People from Kars
- Turkish female cross-country skiers
- Turkish people of Azerbaijani descent
- Olympic cross-country skiers of Turkey
- Cross-country skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
- Cross-country skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
- Cross-country skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
- Cross-country skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
- European cross-country skiing biography stubs
- Turkish winter sports biography stubs