Fatma Uruk (born in 1988) is a Turkish world record holder female

free-diver Freediving, free-diving, free diving, breath-hold diving, or skin diving, is a mode of underwater diving that relies on breath-holding until resurfacing rather than the use of breathing apparatus such as scuba gear. Besides the limits of breat ...

and school teacher.

Early life

Fatma Uruk was born in

İzmir İzmir is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara. It is on the Aegean Sea, Aegean coast of Anatolia, and is the capital of İzmir Province. In 2024, the city of İzmir had ...

, Turkey in 1988. Between 2006 and 2013, she was educated in Economics at

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Sports career

She began with freediving after she watched a documentary about the Turkish world-record holder female freediver Yasemin Dalkılıç. In 2008, she felt herself ready for competitions, and participated in the Turkish championship. She won the third place, and was admitted to the national team. By September 2020, while she was training for a world record freediving in

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, she set a new national record in the Constant Weight (CWT) with Fins event with . The old record was . By November the same year, she broke three world records in three days in Mexico. She set a world record in variable weight apnea without fins at sea (VNF) with . The old record was held by

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at . The next day, she broke the world record in the Constant Weight (CWT) with Fins event with , which belonged to

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from Russia at . Finally, she improved her own record in the VNF event to .

World records

*VNF – 2020 *VNF – 2020 *CWT – 2020

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Uruk, Fatma 1988 births Living people Sportspeople from İzmir Middle East Technical University alumni Turkish freedivers Turkish sportswomen