Devrim Cenk Ulusoy

Devrim Cenk Ulusoy is a Turkish freediver, born in 1973 in Nigde, who has set more than twenty national records, two official European records and eight world records since he began freediving in 2003. His selected records include a 159.54 meter jump blue apnea with fins in Antalya in 2008 and constant weight with fins dives of 83.1 and 87 meters in 2008 and 2011. He has won one European and two world championships. He started in water sports at five as therapy for an arm paralysed since age two, joined the Turkish national swimming team at nine, and returned after three years of retirement as a monofin finswimmer with many national titles. He studied mechanical engineering and later physical education, has worked as a swimming and tennis coach, and trains with the Middle East Technical University underwater sports club.