Onur Uras

Onur Uras (born January 1, 1985) is a Turkish Olympic swimmer who specialized in the butterfly stroke.[1] He is a four-time Turkish national champion, and a member of Galatasaray Swimming Club (Turkish: Galatasaray Spor Kulübü) in Istanbul, under his head coach Yilmaz Ozuak. Uras is also a former varsity swimmer for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, and a graduate of industrial engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.

Onur Uras
Personal information
Full nameOnur Uras
National team Turkey
Born (1985-01-01) 1 January 1985
Istanbul, Turkey
Height1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight82 kg (181 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesButterfly
ClubGalatasaray Spor Kulübü
College teamGeorgia Institute of Technology
(U.S.)
CoachYilmaz Ozuak

Career

Uras made his first Turkish team, as a 19-year-old, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he competed in the men's 100 m butterfly. He rounded out the third heat to last place and forty-ninth overall by 0.15 of a second behind Algeria's Aghiles Slimani in 56.37 seconds.[2][3]

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Uras qualified again for the men's 100 m butterfly, by establishing a Turkish record and clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 53.97 from the Speedo Champion Series in Atlanta.[4][5] He challenged seven other swimmers on the same heat, including three-time Olympians Jeremy Knowles of the Bahamas, Georgi Palazov of Bulgaria, and Camilo Becerra of Colombia. He edged out Palazov to take a seventh spot by 0.46 of a second in 54.79. Uras failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fifty-eighth overall in the preliminaries.[6][7]

References
  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Onur Uras". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
  2. "Men's 100m Butterfly Heat 3". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 19 August 2004. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
  3. Thomas, Stephen (19 August 2004). "Men's 100 Butterfly, Day 6 Prelims: Crocker Blasts Back into Form as Fastest Qualifier; Serdinov and Phelps Right on his Tail". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 27 December 2013. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
  4. "Onur Uras And Gal Nevo Qualify For Olympics". Georgia Tech Ramblin' Wrecks Athletics. 14 July 2008. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
  5. "Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 100m Butterfly" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 33. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  6. "Men's 100m Butterfly Heat 3". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
  7. "Onur Uras And Gal Nevo Compete In Bejing [sic]". Georgia Tech Ramblin' Wrecks Athletics. 14 August 2008. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
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