Fatma Uruk

Fatma Uruk (born in 1988) is a Turkish world record holder female free-diver and school teacher.

Early life
Fatma Uruk was born in İzmir, Turkey in 1988. Between 2006 and 2013, she was educated in Economics at Middle East Technical University in Ankara.

Sports career
She began with freediving after she watched a documentary about the Turkish world-record holder female freediver Yasemin Dalkılıç. In 2008, she felt herself ready for competitions, and participated in the Turkish championship. She won the third place, and was admitted to the national team.

By September 2020, while she was training for a world record freediving in Mexico, she set a new national record in the Constant Weight (CWT) with Fins event with 60 m. The old record was 50 m. By November the same year, she broke three world records in three days in Mexico. She set a world record in variable weight apnea without fins at sea (VNF) with 72 m. The old record was held by Derya Can at 70 m. The next day, she broke the world record in the Constant Weight (CWT) with Fins event with 67 m, which belonged to Olga Chernyavskaya from Russia at 65 m.  Finally, she improved her own record in the VNF event to 77 m.

World records

 * VNF 72 m – 2020
 * VNF 77 m – 2020
 * CWT 67 m – 2020