Cezmi Or Memorial

The Cezmi Or Memorial (Turkish: Uluslararası Cezmi Or Kupası)^[1] is an annual track and field meeting which takes place in Istanbul, Turkey.

Cezmi Or Memorial
Date	June
Location	Sadi Gülçelik Stadium, Istanbul, Turkey
Event type	Track and field
Established	1945

The meeting is held in honour of late Turkish sprinter Cezmi Or, who set Turkish records in the men's 100 metres and 200 metres, but died of typhoid fever in 1945 at the age of 24. The memorial meeting was first held one year after his death and has continued annually without interruption.^[2][3] It is held under the auspices of the Turkish Athletic Federation and Can Korkmazoğlu is the current meet organiser.^[4]

The competition, which is undertaken at the Enka Sadi Gülçelik Stadium,^[5] Stadium holds Classic Meeting status from the continental governing body, European Athletics.^[6] Both international and Turkish athletes compete in the meetings events. At the 2005 edition of the competition, Turkish hammer thrower Eşref Apak set the current national record of 81.45 metres for the event, which is also the meet record.^[7]

Meeting records

Men

Men's meeting records of the Cezmi Or Memorial

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Ref.
100 m	10.08	Ramil Guliyev	Azerbaijan	13 June 2009	[8]
200 m	20.32	Ramil Guliyev	Azerbaijan	11 June 2011	[8]
400 m	45.76	Ibrahima Wade	Senegal	19 June 1999	[8]
800 m	1:47.22	Kamel Boulahfane	Algeria	19 June 1999	[8]
1500 m	3:41.27	Dmitrijs Jurkevičs	Latvia	8 June 2013	[9]
3000 m	7:57.96	Samir Moussaoui	Algeria	19 June 1999	[8]
5000 m	13:29.85	Abayneh Ayele	Ethiopia	11 June 2011	[8]
3000 m steeplechase	8:20.08	Birhan Getahun	Ethiopia	9 June 2012	[10]
110 m hurdles	13.71	Damjan Zlatnar	Slovenia	30 June 2007	[8]
400 m hurdles	49.40	Danny McFarlane	Jamaica	7 June 2003	[8]
High jump	2.31 m	Dragutin Topić	Serbia and Montenegro	7 June 2003	[8]
Pole vault	5.51 m	Ruhan Işım	Turkey	20 June 1998	[8]
Long jump	8.13 m	Andriy Makarchev	Ukraine	28 June 2008
Triple jump	17.20 m	Lenis Stamatis	Greece	24 June 2000	[8]
Shot put	20.85 m	Pavel Lyzhyn	Belarus	3 June 2006	[8]
Discus throw	63.86 m	Ludvík Daněk	Czech Republic	1975	[8]
Hammer throw	81.45 m	Eşref Apak	Turkey	5 June 2005	[8]
Javelin throw	82.48 m	Fatih Avan	Turkey	11 June 2011	[8]
10,000 m walk (track)	45:58.7	Abdülkadir Öz	Turkey	15 July 1995	[8]
4 × 100 m relay	40.48	Matic Sustercic Matej Junhart Rok Predanic Matic Osovnikar	Slovenia	16 June 2001	[8]

Women

Women's meeting records of the Cezmi Or Memorial

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Ref.
100 m	11.26	Irina Pukha	Ukraine	19 June 1999	[11]
200 m	23.08 (+0.5 m/s)	Viktoriya Pyatachenko	Ukraine	9 June 2012	[12]
400 m	51.43	Vania Stambolova	Bulgaria	11 June 2011	[11]
800 m	2:00.42	Tatyana Paliyenko	Russia	9 June 2012	[13]
1500 m	4:06.97	Alemitu Bekele Degfa	Turkey	12 June 2010	[11]
3000 m	9:22.78	Esma Aydemir	Turkey	13 June 2015	[14]
5000 m	15:18.81	Waganesh Mekasha	Ethiopia	9 June 2012	[15]
100 m hurdles	12.76	Nevin Yanit	Turkey	28 June 2008	[11]
400 m hurdles	54.33	Vania Stambolova	Bulgaria	11 June 2011	[11]
3000 m steeplechase	9:28.84	Türkan Erişmiş	Turkey	13 June 2009	[11]
High jump	1.98 m	Venelina Veneva	Bulgaria	5 June 2005	[11]
Pole vault	4.30 m	Tatiana Grigorieva	Australia	19 June 1999	[11]
		Tanya Koleva	Bulgaria	24 June 2000
		Buse Arıkazan	Turkey	10 June 2018	[16]
Long jump	4.30 m	Elena Khlopotnova	Ukraine	20 June 1998	[11]
Triple jump	14.55 m	Natalya Kutyakova	Russia	12 June 2010	[11]
Shot put	19.48 m	Jillian Camarena-Williams	United States	11 June 2011	[11]
Discus throw	62.95 m	Nicoleta Grasu	Romania	3 June 2006	[11]
Hammer throw	68.07 m	Kıvılcım Salman Kaya	Turkey	10 June 2018	[17]
Javelin throw	47.08 m	Sahar Ziaei	Iran	10 June 2018	[18]
5000 m walk (track)	20:29.63	Claudia Iovan	Romania	19 June 1999	[11]
4 × 100 m relay	45.37	Burcu Şentürk Nora Güner Anzhela Atroshchenko Aksel Gürcan	Turkey	8 June 2002	[11]