{"id":106940,"date":"2014-04-21T12:12:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T09:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=106940"},"modified":"2023-04-02T16:13:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T13:13:59","slug":"world-champion-swimmer-alper-sunacoglu-izmir-athens-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2014\/04\/21\/world-champion-swimmer-alper-sunacoglu-izmir-athens-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"World Champion Swimmer Alper Sunacoglu \u0130zmir Athens Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alper Sunacoglu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Alper Suna\u00e7o\u011flu, The World Champion Turkish swimmer recently declared that he would like to swim from Izmir to Athens, run and cycle from Athens To Thessalonica \u00a0in order to contribute to World peace. \u00a0Unfortunately Suna\u00e7o\u011flu didn’t receive the support that he expected from the Swimming Federation in Turkey until recently however there has been positive developments recently and swimming federation in Turkey asked Alper kindly to move forward altogether with the issues that they had in the past and asked Alper to resolve the issues that they had in an amicable way. The recent move of Swimming Federation came as a surprise to many, as the representative of swimming Federation of Turkey contacted Mr Sunacoglu to show \u00a0their good intentions however Suna\u00e7o\u011flu has more challenges as he didn’t receive the support from any sponsors in Turkey that he expected so he will now focus to look for sponsors globally for this world record. He is now in the process of asking the global community to help him to facilitate suitable sponsors so that he can break the world record as well as contributing to the world peace.<\/span><\/p>\n

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TOLGA CAKIR<\/p>\n

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*Alper is a Turkish open water swimmer and member of the 24-hour club with his 78 km (48.4 miles) marathon swim from Turkey to the island of Cyprus on 4 September 2010 in 26 hours 15 minutes. He broke the previous record of 43 hours 20 minutes set in 1973 by Ersin Aydin, an Honour Swimmer of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

Suna\u00e7o\u011flu has also done a 30 km swim in the Bosphorus (Istanbul) on 23 April 2011 and a 60 km swim in the Dardanelles on 29 October 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Alper Suna\u00e7o\u011flu, The World Champion Turkish swimmer recently declared that he would like to swim from Izmir to Athens, run and cycle from Athens To Thessalonica \u00a0in order to contribute to World peace. \u00a0Unfortunately Suna\u00e7o\u011flu didn’t receive the support that he expected from the Swimming Federation in Turkey until recently however there has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":106963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,922],"tags":[9167,9436,9435,9434],"class_list":["post-106940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","category-world","tag-alper-sunacoglu","tag-izmir-to-athens","tag-turkish-marathon-swimmer","tag-world-champion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}