Saliha Şahin (born 5 November 1998) is a Turkish professional

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player. She is tall at and plays in the Outside Hitter position. After four years with Eczacıbaşı Dynavit and a single season in Poland with

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, she has come back in

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playing for

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. She is a member of the

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Club career

Saliha Şahin is tall at , and plays in the Outside Hitter position. She started her sport career in the academy of Karayolları SK in her hometown

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in 2015. In 2018, she transferred to the

-based Eczacıbaşı Dynavit, formerly Eczacıbaşı Vitra. She was loaned out to her former club for the 2018–19 season. In 2019, she won the Spor Toto Champions Cup with Eczacıbaşı Dynavit. She took part at the 2019 FIVB Club World Championship in

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, China, where she won the silver medal. In the 2019–20 season, she was laoned out to Sarıyer Bld. SK. She experienced her club's champion title at the 2020–21 AXA Sigorta Champions Cup. She won also the 2021–22 Women's CEV Cup. She won the bronze medal at the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship in

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, Turkey. On 22 May 2023, she announced that she left Eczacıbaşı Dynavit, where she played for four years. She was loaned out to the Polish club

to play in the 2023–24 season Tauron Liga. For the 2024-2025 season she played for

. On June 2nd, Ankara based club, Zeren Spor Kulübü announced the signing of Şahin for the 2025-2026 season. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKZO5VJMavJ/

International career

Saliha won the gold medal with the Turkey U-17 team at the

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, Azerbaijan. She played for the Turkey U-19 team to play at the 2016 U19 European Championship in

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, where she took the bronze medal. She played in the Turkey U-20 team, which placed fourth at the 2017 FIVB U20 World Championship in Mexico. She was part of the Turkey U-23 team, which became champion at the 2017 FIVB U23 World Championship in

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, Slovenia. Şahin became a member of the Turkey national team. She won the silver medal at the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Nations League in

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, China. She played in the bronze medalist team at the

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, Spain. At the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Nations League in Ankara, Turkey, her team placed fourth. She was part of the national team, which placed eight at the 2022 FIVB World Championship in Poland and the

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. She won the gold medal at the 2023 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League in

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, United States.

Personal life

Saliha Şahin was born in Ankara, Turkey on 5 November 1998. She has two sisters. Her two-years younger sister Elif is also a professional volleyball player in the Setter position, they played together in Eczacıbaşı from 2020-2023.

Honours

Club

Eczacıbaşı Dynavit

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Turkish Women's Volleyball League Sultanlar Ligi (''Sultans League''), known for sponsorship reasons as Vodafone Sultanlar Ligi, is the highest professional women's volleyball league in Turkey. It is run by the Turkish Volleyball Federation and began with the 1984–85 season. 14 ...

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Turkish Women's Volleyball Cup The Turkish Women's Volleyball Cup (), is a national cup for professional women's volleyball in Turkey, organized by the Turkish Volleyball Federation since the 1994-95 season. Between 2003 and 2008, the event was not held five consecutive season ...

: 2020–21 : 2021–22 ; Turkish Women's Volleyball Super Cup : 2019, 2020 : 2021–22 ;

CEV Women's Champions League The Women's CEV Champions League, formerly known as CEV Champions Cup (from 1960 to 2000), is the top official competition for women's volleyball clubs of Europe and takes place every year. It is organized by the Confédération Européenne de V ...

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FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship The FIVB Women's Volleyball Club World Championship is an international women's club volleyball competition organised by the ''Fédération Internationale de Volleyball'' (FIVB), the sport's global sports governing body, governing body. The compe ...

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

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Women's CEV Cup The Women's CEV Cup, formerly known as CEV Cup Winners' Cup (from 1972 to 2000) and CEV Top Teams Cup (from 2000 to 2007), is the second-top official competition for women's volleyball clubs of Europe and takes place every year. It is organized b ...

: 2021–22

International

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European Youth Olympic Festival The European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) is a biennial multi-sport event for youth (14 to 18 years old) athletes from the 50 member countries of the association of European Olympic Committees. The festival has a summer edition, held for the fi ...

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

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Women's Junior European Volleyball Championship The Women's Junior European Volleyball Championship is a sport competition for national teams with players under 20 years, currently held biannually and organized by the European Volleyball Confederation, the volleyball federation from Europe. A ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

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FIVB Volleyball Women's U23 World Championship The FIVB Volleyball Women's U23 World Championship was the world championship of volleyball for female players under the age of 23 organized by Fédération Internationale de Volleyball ( FIVB). The first edition was staged in 2013 in Mexicali a ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

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Mediterranean Games The Mediterranean Games is a multi-sport event organised by the International Committee of Mediterranean Games (CIJM). It is held every four years among athletes from countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea in Africa, Asia and Europe. The fi ...

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FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League The FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League is an international volleyball competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of the ' (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The first tournament took place between May a ...

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sahin, Saliha 1998 births Living people Volleyball players from Ankara Turkish women's volleyball players 21st-century Turkish sportswomen Turkey women's international volleyball players Volleyball players at the 2018 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Turkey Mediterranean Games medalists in volleyball Eczacıbaşı Dynavit players Turkish expatriate volleyball players Turkish expatriate sportspeople in Poland Expatriate volleyball players in Poland