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Perihan Çınar

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Perihan Çınar (née Küçükkoç, born 17 January 1994) is a Turkish hockey player who plays field hockey, hockey5s, and indoor hockey. She is part of the Gaziantep Polis Gücü SK and the Turkey women's national teams, and has received several most-valuable player (MVP) and top-goalscorer awards.

Perihan Çınar
Personal information
Born Perihan Küçükkoç
(1994-01-17) 17 January 1994 (age 30)
Nizip, Gaziantep, Turkey
Playing position Forward
Club information
Current club Gaziantep Polis Gücü SK
National team
Years Team Caps Goals
Turkey 20 (22)
Medal record
Representing  Turkey
Women's Indoor hockey
EuroHockey Indoor Championship II
Silver medal – second place 2020 Sveti Ivan Zelina Team
Women's Field hockey
EuroHockey Championship III
Gold medal – first place 2023 Zagreb Team
Gold medal – first place 2017 Sveti Ivan Zelina Team
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Sveti Ivan Zelina Team

Early and personal life

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Perihan Küçükkoç was born in Nizip district of Gaziantep Province, southeastern Turkey, on 17 January 1994. She attended Nizip Abdurrahman Alkan Primary School and Adile Altınbaş Middle School. After completing her secondary education at Yahya Altınbaş High School, she studied Physical Education at Gazi University in Ankara.[1] After graduating, she worked as a physical education teacher at Osman Nuri Bakırcı Middle School in Esenyurt, Istanbul,[2][3][4][1] and later taught at Gaziantep Nizip Yunus Emre Middle School.[5]

After her marriage, Küçükkoç took the surname Çınar. She has a son named Alptuğ Ümeyr.[2][5]

Club career

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Perihan Çınar started playing hockey at the age of ten.[2][5] She received her licence in 2005[6] and has been playing hockey since then.[2] Çınar was a member of Abant İzzet Baysal University SK,[7] and she also plays in her hometown[clarification needed] for Gaziantep Polis Gücü SK.[2] As of January 2024, she has played in 97 league matches and scored 169 goals.[6]

Field hockey

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Çınar played at the 2018 Women's EuroHockey Club Challenge III, at which her team Gaziantep Polis Gücü finished as champions.[8][9] They also won the 2018–19 THF Women's Field Hockey Super League season, and Çınar was named the league's top goalscorer.[10] By 2022, the team had won the Turkish Hockey Federation (THF) Women's Field Hockey Super League, and Çınar was again their top goalscorer, scoring 58 times.[2] She was part of the Gaziantep Polis Gücü team the following season, at which the team were runners-up after the play-offs.[11] Playing with Gaziantep Polis Gücü, who finished the 2019–20 THF Indoor Super League as champions, she was named the most-valuable player (MVP).[12]

Indoor hockey

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Çınar was also a member of the Abant İzzet Baysal University SK women's hockey team and played in the 2013 Eurohockey Women's Indoor Club Challenge in Lisbon, Portugal. She was named the MVP of the tournament when the team won the cup.[7]

Çınar also played for the Ankara side Keçiören Bağlum S.K., which won the 2013–2014 THF Women's Indoor Hockey Super League season. She was named the MVP and top goalscorer of the season.[13] The team was runner-up at the 2023–24 THF Women's Indoor Hockey League after losing to Ege Yıldızları SK in the final.[14]

International career

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Perihan Çınar is part of Turkey's women's national field hockey team[6] and the women's national indoor hockey team, serving as team captain.[5] She was selected for the national team in 2007 and since then has been capped over 100 times,[5] scoring 22 goals in 20 matches for the A team.[6]

Indoor hockey

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Çınar was part of the national team at the 2020 Women's EuroHockey Indoor Championship II in Sveti Ivan Zelina, Croatia. Turkey finished the tournament as runners-up,[15] and Çınar was named the MVP with teammate Sinem Alpakan.[16] Çınar took part in the 2022 Women's EuroHockey Indoor Championship, which was held in Hamburg, Germany,[17] where the Turkish team finished in sixth place.[18]

In she was appointed captain of the national team at the 2024 Women's EuroHockey Indoor Championship, which was held in February in Berlin, Germany.[19]

Hockey5s

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In June 2023, Çınar played at the Women's EuroHockey5s Championship in Wałcz, Poland, in which Turkey was ranked fifth among the ten participating nations.[19] Çınar was again named the top goalscorer, having scored 22 goals that season.[20]

Field hockey

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Çınar played in Round Two of the 2014–2015 Women's FIH Hockey World League in Dublin, Ireland;[21] and at Round One of the same tournament in 2016–2017 in Prague, Czech Republic.[22] Round Two was held in Valencia, Spain.[23] At the 2015 Women's EuroHockey Championship III in Sveti Ivan Zelina, Croatia, she played in the national team, which won bronze;[24] she was also part of the national team at the 2017 Women's EuroHockey tournament in Sveti Ivan Zelina, where the Turkish team won the championship and Çınar was named the MVP of the competition.[25]

Çınar played at the 2018–19 Women's Hockey Series Open in Vilnius, Lithuania,[26] and at the 2019 Women's EuroHockey Championship II in Glasgow, Scotland.[27] In July 2023, she played field hockey at the Women's EuroHockey Championship III in Zagreb, Croatia; the Turkish team defeated Switzerland in the final and became the champion among the four nations.[28]

Honours

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Clubs

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THF Women's Field Hockey Championship (with Gaziantep Polis Gücü SK)
  • Champions (2): 2018–19[10] 2021–22[2]
  • Runners-up (1): 2022–23[11]
Women's EuroHockey Club Challenge III
THF Women's Indoor Hockey League

International

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Women's EuroHockey Indoor Championship II (Turkey women's indoor hockey)
Women's EuroHockey Championship III (Turkey women's field hockey)

Individual

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Most Valuable Player (3)
Top Goalscorer (3)
  • 2013–14 THF Women's Indoor Hockey Super League[13]
  • 2018–19 THF Women's Field Hockey Super League[10]
  • 2022 THF Women's Field Hockey Championship (58 goals)[2]
  • 2023 Women's EuroHockey5s Championship (22 goals)[20]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Gaziantep'in Yetiştirdiği Sporcular ve Spoe Adamları Üzerine Biyografik Bir Çalışma – Perihan Küçükkoç" (PDF) (in Turkish). Aydın Adnan Menderes Universitesi – Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü – Spor Yöneticiliği Anabilim Dalı 2022-YL-023. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "Hokey'in Gol Kraliçesi Efsane Sporcu Perihan". Olay Media (in Turkish). 23 May 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  3. ^ "İstanbul/Esenyurt – Osman Nuri Bakırcı Ortaokulu" (in Turkish). Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  4. ^ "Hokey'e gönül vermiş iki Türk kızı". Olay Medya (in Turkish). 23 February 2020. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  5. ^ a b c d e Turan, Hülya (25 September 2022). "Perihan öğretmen, hokeyde ay-yıldızlı formayı tutkuyla giyiyor". Anadolu News Agency (in Turkish). Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  6. ^ a b c d "Perihan Çınar" (in Turkish). Türkiye Hokey Federasyonu. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
  7. ^ a b c "İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi Avrupa Şampiyonu!". NTV Spor (in Turkish). 26 February 2013. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  8. ^ "EuroHockey Club Challenge III 2018 Women – Nacka LHK 0–4 Gaziantep Polisgücü SK". EuroHockey. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  9. ^ a b "Avrupa'nın 1gol kraliçesi" Gaziantep'ten çıktı!". Ajans Spor (in Turkish). 22 May 2018. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  10. ^ a b c "2018–2019 Sezonu Kadınlar Açık Alan Hokey Süper Lig Ödül Töreni Yapıldı" (in Turkish). Osmaniye Valiliği. 3 May 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  11. ^ a b "2022–2023 Sezonu Kadınlar Açık Alan Süper Lig Şampiyonluk PLlay-off'u" (in Turkish). Türkiye Hokey Federasyonu. 25 May 2023. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  12. ^ a b c "Kadınlar Salon Hokey Süper Ligi sona erdi". 48 Spor (in Turkish). 11 February 2020. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
  13. ^ a b c d "Hokey Bayanlar Şampiyonu; Keçiören Bağlum Spor Kulübü" (in Turkish). Alanya Belediyesi. 10 February 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
  14. ^ a b "2023 – 2024 Kadınlar Salon Süper Lig" (in Turkish). Türkiye Hokey Federasyonu. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  15. ^ a b "EuroHockey Indoor Championship II 2020 (W) – Sveti Ivan Zelina, Croatia". FIH. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
  16. ^ a b "Kadınlar Hokey Salon Süper Lig 2. Etap Müsabakaları Şampiyonu Gaziantep Polisgücü" (in Turkish). Alaanya Belediyesi. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
  17. ^ "Milli hokeyciler, Avrupa Şampiyonası'na hazır". TRT Haber (in Turkish). 5 December 2022. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  18. ^ Çakmak, Fatih (8 March 2023). "Türkiye kadın hokeyinde 150 yıllık ülkelerle aynı kategoride yarışıyor". Anadolu News Agency (in Turkish). Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  19. ^ a b Ergün, Göktuğ (14 December 2023). "A Milli Kadın Hokey Takımı, EuroHockey'de derece almak için çalışıyor". Anadolu News Agency (in Turkish). Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  20. ^ a b "EuroHockey5s Championship 2023 Women – Goal Scores". FIH. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  21. ^ "World League R2 2014/2015 (W) Ireland". FIH Hockey World League. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  22. ^ "2015 Women Hockey World League Round 1 Peague (CZE)". FIH World League. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  23. ^ "Valencia Hockey World League Round 2, Spain". FIH Hockey World League. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  24. ^ "EuroHockey Championships III 2015 (W) Turkey 5–0 Croatia". FIH. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
  25. ^ a b c "A Milli Kadın Hokey Takımımız Avrupa Şampiyonu Oldu". olimpiyatkomitesi.org.tr (in Turkish). Türkiye Milli Olimpiyat Komitesi. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  26. ^ "Hockey Series Open – Vilnius 2018 (Women)". Hockey Series Open. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  27. ^ "EuroHockey Championship II (Women) 2019". EuroHockey. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  28. ^ a b "EuroHockey Championship III 2023 Women Final – Türkiye 3–1 Switzerland". FIH. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  29. ^ "EuroHockey Championships III 2015 (W) Turkey 5–0 Croatia". FIH. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
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