Fatma Uruk

Fatma Uruk, born in İzmir in 1988, is a Turkish freediver and school teacher who holds world records in women's freediving. She studied economics at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, took up freediving after watching a documentary about the Turkish record holder Yasemin Dalkılıç, and finished third in the Turkish championship in 2008, which brought her a place on the national team. In 2020, training in Mexico, she raised the Turkish constant weight with fins record from 50 to 60 metres, then in November broke three world records in three days: 72 metres and later 77 metres in variable weight without fins at sea, and 67 metres in constant weight with fins, a mark that had belonged to Olga Chernyavskaya of Russia.