Onur Uras

Onur Uras
Personal information
Full name	Onur Uras
National team	Turkey
Born	1 January 1985 (age 39); Istanbul, Turkey
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	82 kg (181 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Butterfly
Club	Galatasaray Spor Kulübü
College team	Georgia Institute of Technology; (U.S.)
Coach	Yilmaz Ozuak

Onur Uras (born January 1, 1985) is a Turkish Olympic swimmer who specialized in the butterfly stroke.^[1] He is a four-time Turkish national champion, and a member of Galatasaray Swimming Club (Turkish: Galatasaray Spor Kulübü) in Istanbul, under his head coach Yilmaz Ozuak. Uras is also a former varsity swimmer for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, and a graduate of industrial engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.

Career[edit]

Uras made his first Turkish team, as a 19-year-old, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he competed in the men's 100 m butterfly. He rounded out the third heat to last place and forty-ninth overall by 0.15 of a second behind Algeria's Aghiles Slimani in 56.37 seconds.^[2]^[3]

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Uras qualified again for the men's 100 m butterfly, by establishing a Turkish record and clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 53.97 from the Speedo Champion Series in Atlanta.^[4]^[5] He challenged seven other swimmers on the same heat, including three-time Olympians Jeremy Knowles of the Bahamas, Georgi Palazov of Bulgaria, and Camilo Becerra of Colombia. He edged out Palazov to take a seventh spot by 0.46 of a second in 54.79. Uras failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fifty-eighth overall in the preliminaries.^[6]^[7]

References[edit]

^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Onur Uras". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
^ "Men's 100m Butterfly Heat 3". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 19 August 2004. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
^ Thomas, Stephen (19 August 2004). "Men's 100 Butterfly, Day 6 Prelims: Crocker Blasts Back into Form as Fastest Qualifier; Serdinov and Phelps Right on his Tail". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 27 December 2013. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
^ "Onur Uras And Gal Nevo Qualify For Olympics". Georgia Tech Ramblin' Wrecks Athletics. 14 July 2008. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
^ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 100m Butterfly" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 33. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
^ "Men's 100m Butterfly Heat 3". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
^ "Onur Uras And Gal Nevo Compete In Bejing [sic]". Georgia Tech Ramblin' Wrecks Athletics. 14 August 2008. Retrieved 11 April 2013.

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[1] Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Onur Uras". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2012.

[2] "Men's 100m Butterfly Heat 3". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 19 August 2004. Retrieved 14 March 2013.

[3] Thomas, Stephen (19 August 2004). "Men's 100 Butterfly, Day 6 Prelims: Crocker Blasts Back into Form as Fastest Qualifier; Serdinov and Phelps Right on his Tail". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 27 December 2013. Retrieved 11 April 2013.

[4] "Onur Uras And Gal Nevo Qualify For Olympics". Georgia Tech Ramblin' Wrecks Athletics. 14 July 2008. Retrieved 1 December 2012.

[5] "Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 100m Butterfly" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 33. Retrieved 10 April 2013.

[6] "Men's 100m Butterfly Heat 3". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 1 December 2012.

[7] "Onur Uras And Gal Nevo Compete In Bejing [sic]". Georgia Tech Ramblin' Wrecks Athletics. 14 August 2008. Retrieved 11 April 2013.

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