Derya Büyükuncu
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| Full name | Derya Büyükuncu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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July 2, 1976 Istanbul, Turkey |
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| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) (2012) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 90 kg (200 lb) (2012) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Backstroke, butterfly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Galatasaray Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Michigan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Zehra Büyükuncu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Derya Büyükuncu (pronounced [ˈdeɾja ˈbyjycˈundʒu]; born July 2, 1976 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a six-time Olympic backstroke and butterfly swimmer from Turkey. The 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) tall athlete at 90 kg (200 lb) is a member of Galatasaray Swimming. His coach is Zehra Büyükuncu.
He participated in six consecutive Summer Olympic Games: 1992 Barcelona, 1996 Atlanta, 2000 Sydney, 2004 Athens, 2008 Beijing, 2012 London. He is the first swimmer and one of the first two (together with Lars Frölander) swimmers to participate in six Olympic Games.
At the age of nine, Büyükuncu became a national swimmer, and won a bronze medal in the 12-year-age category at the 1985 Balkan Swimming Championships held in Bulgaria. At the 1987 Balkan Championships held in Izmir, he won five gold medals. He repeated his five-fold gold medal performance at the 1989 Balkan Championships in Greece. In 1990, he took three gold medals at the Balkan Junior Championships held in Romania.
Büyükuncu earned two gold medals at the 1991 European Junior Swimming Championships in Antwerp, Belgium. That year, he was named "Sportsman of the Year" by Milliyet. In 1992, he won the gold medal at the European Junior Swimming Championships held in Leeds, United Kingdom setting a new European juniors record. In so doing, he became the first ever Turkish swimmer to hold a European juniors record.
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