Gülcan Mıngır

Guelcan Mingir ( born May 21, 1989 in Döğer ) is a Turkish long-distance runner who specializes in the steeplechase.

First international experience gained Mingir at the Track World Junior Championships 2008 in Bydgoszcz, where she finished in twelfth place in the obstacle course. In the U23 European Athletics Championships Ostrava 2011 she won the gold medal. In the same year she appeared also at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, but different than Sixth their forward travel in the preliminary round of.

In June 2012, Mingir ventured into the world's best, as she increased her personal best in Sofia by more than 26 seconds 9:13,53 minutes. So she put on a Turkish record and moved up to sixth place in the all -European leaderboard. A few weeks later she was her new role as favorite in the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki and won the title before Switlana Schmidt from the Ukraine and the German Antje Möldner - Schmidt.

Mingir was in the squad of the Turkish team for the Olympic Summer Games in 2012. In London, she put the 3,000 - meter steeplechase track in the run- in 9:47,35 minutes back. Thus, they could not qualify for the Olympic final,.

Guelcan Mingir studied sports science at the Dumlupınar Üniversitesi and starts for the Fenerbahçe SK. Your trainer is Ihsan Alptekin.