1.05.2016
Turkish athlete Yasemin Can qualified to the 2016 Rio Olympic Games for the second time with her 31:30.70 time in 10.000m at Turkish Championships and Olympic Qualification Tournaments in Mersin, Turkey. With this result she surpassed the 32:15.00 entry standard for women in this category and qualified to Rio 2016 second time. Meryem had previously surpassed the entry standard with her time of 15:08.46 in 5000m at Turkcell Turkish Indoor Athletics Championships in Istanbul.