Neslihan Çalışkan
Turkish handball player (born 1997)
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Neslihan Çalışkan (born 29 July 1997) is a Turkish women's handballer, who plays as left back for ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica in the Montenegrin First League, and the Turkey national team.
İzmir, Turkey
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| Born |
29 July 1997 İzmir, Turkey | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Left back | ||||||||||||||||
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| Current club | ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica | ||||||||||||||||
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– | Kemalpaşa Bld. GSK | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior clubs | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||
– | Kemalpaşa Bld. GSK | ||||||||||||||||
2015–2019 | Ardeşen GSK | ||||||||||||||||
2019–2021 | Üsküdar Bld. SK | ||||||||||||||||
2021–2023 | Kastamonu Bld. GSK | ||||||||||||||||
2023– | ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica | ||||||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||
2013–2014 | Turkey U-17 | ||||||||||||||||
2015– | Turkey | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Personal life
Club career
Çalışkan had already started playing handball in the primary school in 2008, encouraged by her physical education teacher,[3] who also coached the farmer team for girls of the local handball club Kemalpaşa Bld. GSK.[4] She has been always supported by her parents to pursue handball.[3] She is 1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) tall at 70 kg (150 lb).[2] She plays in the left back position.[5]
Kemalpaşa Bld. GSK
Çalışkan started her sport career at Kemalpaşa Bld. GSK, also known as Kemalpaşa Ata GSK, in her hometown Kemalpaşa in İzmir.[3][6]
Ardeşen GSK
She transferred to Ardeşen GSK in Rize, northeastern Turkey,[3] to play in the 2015–16 Turkish Women's Handball Super League season.[7] At the end of the season, she experienced her team's league champion title.[8] Her team finished the 2016–17 season in the third place,[9][10] as well as the 2018–19 season.[11]
She played at the 2015–16 EHF Cup Winners' Cup,[12]
Üsküdar Bld. SK
Between 2019 and 2021, she was two seasons with the Istanbul-based club Üsküdar Bld. SK.[5][3] Late September 2021, she left her club.[13]
Kastamonu Bld. GSK
For the 2021–22 Turkish Super League season, she transferred in September 2021 to Kastamonu Bld. GSK.[5][14][15] At the end of the season, she experienced her team's champion title.[16]
She took part at the Women's EHF Champions League in 2021–22,[17] and 2022–23.[18] She won the 2022–23 Turkeish Super League wşth her team.[19]
ŽRK Budućnost
In January 2023, Çalışkan signed a two-years deal with ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica to play in the Montenegrin First League.[3][20]
International career
In 2012, she was called up to the preparation camp of the Turkey women's national under-17 handball team. In 2013, she was admitted to the Turkey girls' U-17 team, and debuted at the Balkan Handball Youth Championships held in Burgas, Bulgaria. She returned home with the gold medal.[21][6]
Çalışkan was called up to the Turkey women's national handball team at the age of 18.[3] She won the gold medal at the 2017 Istamic Solidarity Games in Baku, Azerbaycan.[3] She took part at the 2018 European Championship qualification,[22] and 2021 World Championship – European qualification matches.[23] In 2022, she played in the national team, which became champion at the 5th Islamic Solidarity Games in Konya, Turkey.[24]
Honours
Club
- Turkish Women's Handball Super League
- Ardeşen GSK
- Champion (1): 2015–16.SK
- Third places (2): 2016–17, 2018–19.
- Kastamonu Bld. GSK
- Champion (2): 2021–22, 2022–23.
International
- Turkey women's national under-17 handball team
- Balkan Youth Handball Championships
- Champion (1): 2013.
- Turkey women's national handball team
- Islamic Solidarity Games
- Champion (1): 2021.
