Osman Atakan Tekin

Osman Atakan Tekin is Editor in Chief of the Maraton Türk website (maratonturk.com). He got interested in Athletics in 1962 and wore the colours of Fenerbahce Sports Club between 1962 and 1970. He worked on the founding committee of the "Istanbul Eurasia Marathon" in 1979. He helped found the "International Golden Horn Half Marathon" in 1986 and was the race director for four years. He was the Turkish delegate to the 1986 and 1987 IAAF congresses and to the AIMS world congress in Melbourne in 1988. He was appointed as the AIMS Press & Public Relations Manager for Turkiye in 1998. He has been to 52 countries on 6 continents and has run 49 marathons in 19 countries. He is a bachelor and speaks English and a little Italian besides his native language of Turkish.