Serap Yücesir
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Serap Yücesir is a former Turkish female basketball
Basketball
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 player. The 1.91 m (6' 3") national competitor played in the power forward
Center (basketball)
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 position.

She started basketball in her age of 13 with Bayraklıspor in İzmir
Izmir
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 and played later for Urla Gençlik. Yücesir moved to Fenerbahçe İstanbul
Fenerbahçe Istanbul
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 in 1990, where she played 13 seasons long. She transferred then to Galatasaray Medical Park, but returned to her previous club after one season. The captain
Captain (sports)
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 won 12 championship titles. After playing for Isanbul University, she transferred in the season 2007-2008 to Turkish Women's Basketball League
Turkish Women's Basketball League
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 team Panküp TED Kayseri College. After ending her active sports career, she serves together with her former teammate Arzu Özyiğit as trainer in a women's basketball school in Kartal
Kartal
Kartal is a district of Istanbul, Turkey located on the Asian side of the city, on the coast of the Marmara Sea between Maltepe and Pendik. The mayor is Altınok Öz . Despite being far from the city centre, Kartal is heavily populated now. . Total land area is 147,000 m² which includes some...

, Istanbul.

Yücesir played in the gold medal
Gold medal
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 winning national team
Turkey national women's basketball team
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 at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
Turkey at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
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 in Almería
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, Spain
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.

Yücesir studied pharmacy
Pharmacy
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, although she had not been able to perform her profession because of basketball, she has now been running her own community pharmacy in Maltepe
Maltepe
Maltepe is a district in the suburbs of Istanbul, Turkey between Kadıköy and Kartal on the Marmara sea. Its neighbours are Kadıköy to the west and Kartal to the east. The mayor of Maltepe is Mustafa Zengin . Maltepe used to border Ümraniye from the northwest between 1992 and 2004...

, Istanbul
Istanbul
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. She is married with a son.

Achievements with Fenerbahçe

Turkish Championship
  • Winners (4): 1999, 2002, 2004, 2006

Turkish Federation Cup
  • Winners (6): 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006

Turkish Super Cup
  • Winners (5): 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005
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