Neslihan Çalışkan
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![]() Neslihan Çalışkan at the 2021 World Women's Handball Championship – European qualification | |||||||||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
Born | İzmir, Turkey | 29 July 1997||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||
Playing position | Left back | ||||||||||||||||
Club information | |||||||||||||||||
Current club | ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica | ||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
Team | |||||||||||||||||
Kemalpaşa Bld. GSK | |||||||||||||||||
Senior clubs | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||
Kemalpaşa Bld. GSK | |||||||||||||||||
2015–2019 | Ardeşen GSK | ||||||||||||||||
2019–2021 | Üsküdar Bld. SK | ||||||||||||||||
2021–2023 | Kastamonu Bld. GSK | ||||||||||||||||
2023– | ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica | ||||||||||||||||
National team | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||
2013–2014 | Turkey U-17 | ||||||||||||||||
2015– | Turkey | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Neslihan Çalışkan (born 29 July 1997) is a Turkish women's handballer, who plays as left back for ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica in the Montenegrin First League, and the Turkey national team.
Personal life
[edit]Neslihan Çalışkan was born in İzmir, Turkey on 29 July 1997.[1][2]
Club career
[edit]Çalışkan had already started playing handball in the primary school in 2008, encouraged by her physical education teacher,[3] who also coached the farmer team for girls of the local handball club Kemalpaşa Bld. GSK.[4] She has been always supported by her parents to pursue handball.[3] She is 1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) tall at 70 kg (150 lb).[2] She plays in the left back position.[5]
Kemalpaşa Bld. GSK
[edit]Çalışkan started her sport career at Kemalpaşa Bld. GSK, also known as Kemalpaşa Ata GSK, in her hometown Kemalpaşa in İzmir.[3][6]
Ardeşen GSK
[edit]She transferred to Ardeşen GSK in Rize, northeastern Turkey,[3] to play in the 2015–16 Turkish Women's Handball Super League season.[7] At the end of the season, she experienced her team's league champion title.[8] Her team finished the 2016–17 season in the third place,[9][10] as well as the 2018–19 season.[11]
She played at the 2015–16 EHF Cup Winners' Cup,[12]
Üsküdar Bld. SK
[edit]Between 2019 and 2021, she was two seasons with the Istanbul-based club Üsküdar Bld. SK.[5][3] Late September 2021, she left her club.[13]
Kastamonu Bld. GSK
[edit]For the 2021–22 Turkish Super League season, she transferred in September 2021 to Kastamonu Bld. GSK.[5][14][15] At the end of the season, she experienced her team's champion title.[16]
She took part at the Women's EHF Champions League in 2021–22,[17] and 2022–23.<[18] She won the 2022–23 Turkeish Super League wşth her team.[19]
ŽRK Budućnost
[edit]In January 2023, Çalışkan signed a two-years deal with ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica to play in the Montenegrin First League.[20]
International career
[edit]In 2012, she was called up to the preparation camp of the Turkey women's national under-17 handball team. In 2013, she was admitted to the Turkey girls' U-17 team, and debuted at the Balkan Handball Youth Championships held in Burgas, Bulgaria. She returned home with the gold medal.[21][6]
Çalışkan was called up to the Turkey women's national handball team at the age of 18.[3] She won the gold medal at the 2017 Istamic Solidarity Games in Baku, Azerbaycan.[3] She took part at the 2018 European Championship qualification,[22] and 2021 World Championship – European qualification matches.[23] In 2022, she played in the national team, which became champion at the 5th Islamic Solidarity Games in Konya, Turkey.[24]
Honours
[edit]Club
[edit]- Turkish Women's Handball Super League
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- Ardeşen GSK
- Champion (1): 2015–16.SK
- Third places (2): 2016–17, 2018–19.
- Kastamonu Bld. GSK
- Champion (2): 2021–22, 2022–23.
International
[edit]- Turkey women's national under-17 handball team
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- Balkan Youth Handball Championships
- Champion (1): 2013.
- Turkey women's national handball team
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- Islamic Solidarity Games
- Champion (1): 2021.
Reference
[edit]- ^ "Neslihan Çalışkan". olimpiyatkomitesi.org.tr (in Turkish). Türkiye Milli Olimpiyat Komitesi. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
- ^ a b "Çalışkan, Neslihan". Euro Handball. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Neslihan Çalışkan'ın "Devler Ligi' gururu". TRT Spor (in Turkish). 27 January 2023. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
- ^ "Kemalpaşa'nın Gururu Oldular". Ege'nin Sesi (in Turkish). 22 December 2011. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
- ^ a b c "Neslihan Çalışkan" (in Turkish). THF Türkiye Hentbol Federasyonu. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
- ^ a b "Kemalpaşa'da Neslihan Rüzgarı". Hentbol Haber (in Turkish). 17 September 2013. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
- ^ "Ardeşen Gençlik ikinci yarıda coştu". TRT Spor (in Turkish). 30 November 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
- ^ "Bayanlar Türkiye Kupası Şampiyonu Ardeşen Gençlikspor" (in Turkish). THF Türkiye Hentbol Federasyonu. 28 March 2016. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
- ^ "Genç Uşak'a Ardeşen darbesi". Hürrşyet (in Turkish). 9 May 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
- ^ "Kadınlar Hentbol Süper Lig'de perde kapandı". Eurosport (in Turkish). 6 June 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
- ^ Özyanık, Mustafa. "Ardeşen GSK 2018–2019 Sezonunu Galibiyetle Kapattı". Son Dakika (in Turkish). Retrieved 27 May 2023.
- ^ "2015/16 Women's Cup Winners' Cu pMatch Details – Handball Club Lada 49:28 Ardesen GSK". Euro Handball. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
- ^ ""Yolun açık olsun kraliçe"". Hentbol Haber (in Turkish). 22 September 2021. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
- ^ "Kastamonu Belediyespor'da transfer". TRT Spor (in Turkish). 27 September 2021. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
- ^ "Neslihan Çalışkan Kastamonu Belediyespor'da". Hentbol Haber (in Turkish). 22 September 2021. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
- ^ "2021–2022 Sezonu Kadınlar Süper Ligi Şampiyonu Kastamonu Belediyesi olduu" (in Turkish). THF Türkiye Hentbol Federasyonu. 21 May 2022. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
- ^ "2021–22 – EHF CL Women – Kastamonu Belediyesi GSK". Euro Handball. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
- ^ "2022–23 – EHF CL Women – Kastamonu Belediyesi GSK". Euro Handball. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
- ^ "Kadınlar Süper Ligi'nde şampiyon Kastamonu Belediyesi". News Findy (in Turkish). 10 June 2023. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
- ^ "Neslihan Çalışkan Buducnost Bemax'a transfer oldu". TRT Spor (in Turkish). 16 January 2023. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
- ^ "Balkan Şampiyonası'nda çifte altın madalya" (in Turkish). THF Türkiye Hentbol Federasyonu. 16 September 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
- ^ "EHF EURO 2018 için aday kadro açıklandı". Hentbol Haber (in Turkish). 9 September 2017. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
- ^ "A Milliler kampa 3 eksik ile başladı". Hentbol Haber (in Turkish). 10 April 2021. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
- ^ "Milli Kadın Hentbol Takımımız, 5. İslami Dayanışma Oyunları'nda şampiyon oldu" (in Turkish). THF Türkiye Hentbol Federasyonu. 11 August 2022. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
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