Osman Atakan Tekin
He was born in Istanbul in 1945. He graduated from Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul. He worked in several companies (Turkish Maritime Lines - NETAS - TOKAR - SISECAM - Zihni Maritime) as an Electrical Engineer and a Manager. Besides he guided Tourist and Sport groups. He got engaged in sports by playing football in Beylerbeyi - Istanbul in 1960. He got interested in Athletics in 1962 and wore the colours of Fenerbahce Sports Club between 1962-1970. He carried the Olympic Torches of 1964 Tokyo , 1972 Munich and 2004 Athens Olympic Games. He worked as a Trainer and a Sports Manager. In 1976, he was elected to be the first Secretary General of NETAS Sports Club, of which he is a founder member. He worked in the founding committee of the Istanbul Eurasia Marathon in 1979. Between 1985 - 1987, he worked as the Managing Director of the Sise-Cam Athletics Club. Under his management, Sise-Cam Cross Country Team won the bronze medal amongst the European countries in Clusone - Italy in 1987. In 1986, he prepared the project of the 1st International Golden Horn Half Marathon, in which 7500 athletes took part, and applied it together with the Municipality of Eyup - Istanbul. He has worked for four years as the Race Director of the Golden Horn Half Marathon. In 1987, he assisted for Turkiye 's AIMS membership. He attended as the Turkish delegate to the IAAF congresses held in Rome, in 1986 and in Bratislava, in 1987 and to the AIMS world congress in Melbourne in 1988. He organized the AIMS Board Meeting in Istanbul, in 1989. He has been the first Turk who has measured a marathon course abroad, by measuring the Vietnam Marathon Course in Hanoi, in 1995 and in Saigon in 1996. He appointed as AIMS Press & Public Relations Manager for Turkiye by AIMS Board, in 1998. He has been to 52 countries on 6 continents. He ran 51 marathons in 19 countries including, 11 in the USA, 5 in Japan and Mongolia, Cambodia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Argentina, Siberia, South Africa. ( For more details about him click
Run The Planet ). He is a bachelor and speaks English and a little Italian besides his native language of Turkish. He is a Congress Member and a Member of the Supreme Council of Fenerbahce Sports Club. He is the man who has taught, mentored and coached the disabled marathoner, Yavuz Sap, since 1985.
Besides, he got diploma from the courses of,
> Human Management in 1974.
> Tourist Guide in 1974.
> Leadership in Scouting in 1981.
> Istanbul American (Admiral Bristol) Hospital Sport Physician in 1989.
