Yavuz Can

Yavuz Can in 2019

Yavuz Can (born 23 February 1987) is a Turkish sprinter specialising in the 400 Metres.

Career

He won the silver medal in the 4 × 400 Metres Relay at the 2013 Mediterranean Games. In addition, he competed at two outdoor and two indoor European Championships, as well as the 2012 World Indoor Championships in his native land, Turkey.

His personal bests in the 400 Metres are 45.64 seconds outdoors (Zeulenroda, 2016) and 46.87 seconds indoors (Istanbul, 2015), both performances were labelled as Turkish national record in these disciplines.

Competition record

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Turkey
2011	Universiade	Shenzhen, China	10th (sf)	400 m	46.55
2012	World Indoor Championships	Istanbul, Turkey	10th (h)	4x400 m relay	3:11.28
	European Championships	Helsinki, Finland	–	400 m	DQ
			13th (h)	4x400 m relay	3:11.44
2013	European Indoor Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	9th (sf)	400 m	47.26
	Mediterranean Games	Mersin, Turkey	6th	400 m	46.70
			2nd	4x400 m relay	3:05.28
	Universiade	Kazan, Russia	10th (sf)	400 m	46.65
			3rd	4x400 m relay	3:06.36
2014	European Championships	Zürich, Switzerland	32nd (h)	400 m	46.90
			12th (h)	4x400 m relay	3:07.68
2015	European Indoor Championships	Prague, Czech Republic	13th (sf)	400 m	47.81
2016	World Indoor Championships	Portland, United States	8th (sf)	400 m	46.82
	European Championships	Amsterdam, Netherlands	7th (sf)	400 m	45.51
			9th (h)	4x400 m relay	3:04.65
2017	Islamic Solidarity Games	Baku, Azerbaijan	5th (sf)	400 m	46.64
			1st	4 × 400 m relay	3:06.83
	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	16th (h)	4 × 400 m relay	3:15.45
2018	Mediterranean Games	Tarragona, Spain	5th	400 m	46.37
			4th	4 × 400 m relay	3:05.28
	European Championships	Berlin, Germany	20th (h)	400 m	46.58
			13th (h)	4 × 400 m relay	3:07.83
2019	European Indoor Championships	Glasgow, United Kingdom	14th (h)	400 m	47.63
2021	World Relays	Chorzów, Poland	12th (h)	4 × 400 m relay	3:06.05