Saliha Şahin

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NationalityTurkish
Born (1998-11-05) 5 November 1998 (age 27)
Ankara, Turkey
Height1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight68 kg (150 lb)
Saliha Şahin
Personal information
NationalityTurkish
Born (1998-11-05) 5 November 1998 (age 27)
Ankara, Turkey
Height1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight68 kg (150 lb)
Spike304 cm (120 in)
Block294 cm (116 in)
Volleyball information
PositionOutside hitter
Career
YearsTeams
  • 2015–2019
  • 2019–2020
  • 2019–2023
  • 2023– 2024
  • 2024-
National team
  • 2015
  • 2016
  • 2017
  • 2017
  • 2018–
Honours
Women's Volleyball
Representing  Turkey
FIVB Nations League
Gold medal – first place2023 ArlingtonTeam
Silver medal – second place2018 NanjingTeam
Mediterranean Games
Bronze medal – third place2018 TarragonaTeam
FIVB U23 World Championship
Gold medal – first place2017 LjubljanaTeam
Junior European Championship
Bronze medal – third place2016 NitraTeam
European Youth Olympic Festival
Gold medal – first place2015 BakuTeam

Saliha Şahin (born 5 November 1998) is a Turkish professional volleyball player. She is 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) tall at 68 kg (150 lb) and plays in the Outside Hitter position. After four years with Eczacıbaşı Dynavit and a single season in Poland with KPS Chemik Police, she has come back in Istanbul playing for Beşiktaş. She is a member of the Turkey women's national volleyball team.

Saliha Şahin is 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) tall at 68 kg (150 lb), and plays in the Outside Hitter position.[1] She started her sport career in the academy of Karayolları SK in her hometown Ankara in 2015.[2] In 2018, she transferred to the Istanbul-based Eczacıbaşı Dynavit, formerly Eczacıbaşı Vitra.[1] She was loaned out to her former club for the 2018–19 season.[2] In 2019, she won the Spor Toto Champions Cup with Eczacıbaşı Dynavit.[1] She took part at the 2019 FIVB Club World Championship in Shaoxing, China, where she won the silver medal.[1] In the 2019–20 season, she was laoned out to Sarıyer Bld. SK.[2] She experienced her club's champion title at the 2020–21 AXA Sigorta Champions Cup. She won also the 2021–22 Women's CEV Cup.[1] She won the bronze medal at the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship in Antalya, Turkey.[3]

On 22 May 2023, she announced that she left Eczacıbaşı Dynavit, where she played for four years.[4] She was loaned out to the Polish club KPS Chemik Police to play in the 2023–24 season Tauron Liga.[5][6]

For the 2024-2025 season she played for Beşiktaş.

On June 2nd, Ankara based club, Zeren Spor Kulübü announced the signing of Şahin for the 2025-2026 season. [7]

International career

Saliha won the gold medal with the Turkey U-17 team at the 2015 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Baku, Azerbaijan.[6]

She played for the Turkey U-19 team to play at the 2016 U19 European Championship in Nitra, Slovakia, where she took the bronze medal.[8]

She played in the Turkey U-20 team, which placed fourth at the 2017 FIVB U20 World Championship in Mexico.[1][9]

She was part of the Turkey U-23 team, which became champion at the 2017 FIVB U23 World Championship in Ljubljana, Slovenia.[1][10]

Şahin became a member of the Turkey national team. She won the silver medal at the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Nations League in Nanjing, China.[1] She played in the bronze medalist team at the 2018 Mediterranean Games in Tarragona, Spain. At the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Nations League in Ankara, Turkey, her team placed fourth.[11] She was part of the national team, which placed eight at the 2022 FIVB World Championship in Poland and the Netherlands.[12] She won the gold medal at the 2023 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League in Arlington, Texas, United States.[13]

Personal life

Saliha Şahin was born in Ankara, Turkey on 5 November 1998.[1][14] She has two sisters. Her two-years younger sister Elif is also a professional volleyball player in the Setter position, they played together in Eczacıbaşı from 2020-2023.[14][5]

Honours

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