1. İsmail aslan

2. pROFİLE Name: İsmail Nickname: ASLAN Date of Birth: 07.03.1981
Height: 180
Weight: 77
Hometown: Mersin
Lives and trains in: İstanbul
Coach: Cüneyt Öztürk
Club: Enkaspor
Profession: Teacher of Physical Education
Management: Türkiye Atletizm Federasyonu

3. Bıography
He started sport when he was 25. After starting the university first he was playing basketball but he couldn’t continue. Then he started athleticism thanks to my trainer. It was completely by chance. Then he found that it is an enjoyable sport so he wanted to go on and he became a national sportsman in his second year. And he is still a national athlete. He has been doing this sport since 2001.

4. Bıography
He ran for many clubs. He started running in Turkish Championship. He has won the championship about every year since he started. And he also has become the champion in Balkan Championship. He also has silver and bronze medals in these championships. Lastly, he won bronze medal in Mediterranean games. He has many medals in 100 meters. He also has many degrees in 200 meters. And he has bronze medal in 4x100.
Now he is an athlete of Enkaspor and his coach is Cüneyt Öztürk.

5. questıons 1- When did you start doing sport and why?
I started athleticism in While at university, my teachers were aware of my potential. Then they suggested me to do this sport and I started.

6. 2- How important is sport in your life?
My life is totally based on sports.

7. 3- What physical benefits have you got from sport?
I have had a physically healthy body. Then thanks to this, you become a healthy person mentally. It helps you to have healthy body parts. So it prevents early aging. These are the main positive effects of the sport.

8. 4- How do you think individual sports may improve self-esteem and build self-confidence?
Individual sports mean you are responsible for yourself. Only you determine both success and failure. If you become successful, it makes you feel self confident. That feeling is quite different from those of team sports. In team sports, success is shared among the players. But in individual sports it is not shared by anybody else so it gives a different pleasure.

9. 5- Has sport helped you to have friends and improve your social life?
Being successful in a sport gives oneself self-esteem and self confident. It also makes the society more respectful against you. In this way, the people around you want to communicate with you and when you attend international games, more people begin to know you. They want to contact with you and they want to be friends with you. By this way, sports have a great chance to make good relationships and friendships.

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