The Cezmi Or Memorial is an annual track and field

Track and field

Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...

 meeting which takes place in Istanbul

Istanbul

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, Turkey

Turkey

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The meeting is held in honour of late Turkish sprinter Cezmi Or, who set Turkish records in the men's 100 metres

100 metres

The 100 metres, or 100-metre dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, it is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896...

 and 200 metres

200 metres

A 200 metres race is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 m track, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques are needed to successfully run the race. A slightly shorter race, called the stadion and run on a straight track, was the first...

, but died of typhoid fever

Typhoid fever

Typhoid fever, also known as Typhoid, is a common worldwide bacterial disease, transmitted by the ingestion of food or water contaminated with the feces of an infected person, which contain the bacterium Salmonella enterica, serovar Typhi...

 in 1945 at the age of 24. The memorial meeting was first held one year after his death and has continued annually without interruption. It is held under the auspices of the Turkish Athletic Federation

Turkish Athletic Federation

Turkish Athletic Federation is the governing body for athletics in Turkey....

 and Can Korkmazoglu is the current meet organiser.

The competition, which is undertaken at the Enka Sadi Gülçelik

Sadi Gülçelik

Sadi Gülçelik was a Turkish entrepreneur. He graduated from İstanbul Technical University as a civil engineer and established Enka Insaat ve Sanayi A.S. with his brother in law Şarık Tara in 1957....

 Stadium, Stadium holds Classic Meeting status from the continental governing body, European Athletics. Both international and Turkish athletes compete in the meetings events. At the 2005 edition of the competition, Turkish hammer thrower Eşref Apak

Esref Apak

Eşref Apak is a Turkish hammer thrower.Apak took part at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and won a surprising bronze medal with 79.51 m after the gold medalist Hungarian athlete Adrián Annus was disqualified by IOC for a doping violation...

 set the current national record

Turkish records in athletics

The following are the national records in athletics in Turkey maintained by Turkey's national athletics federation: Türkiye Atletizm Federasyonu .-Men:-Women:-Men:-Women:ht = hand timing# = not officially ratifiedA = affected by altitude...

of 81.45 metres for the event, which is also the meet record.

External links

• Official website
• Meeting records: Men, Women
• In-depth coverage from Tüm Gazeteler