Yusuf Dikeç Age, Wife, Biography
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Marital Status: Divorced
Age: 51 Years
Hometown: Göksun, Turkey
Some Lesser Known Facts About Yusuf Dikeç
- After graduating from Military School of Gendarmerie in Ankara he became a corporal and started his duty in Mardin.
- In 2000, he became a sergeant and served for one year in Istanbul.
- Later, he was appointed to the Turkish Gendarmerie sports club in Ankara.
- In 2001, he started his shooting career and competed for the military national team in Turkey.
- In 2012, he qualified for the Paris Olympics in the 10m air pistol men’s event and was a part of the 50m pistol event but did not qualify for the final round.
- In 2013, he scored 578 and won a gold medal in the European Championships in the 25m standard pistol team event and a gold medal in the 25m centre fire pistol team competition in Osijek with his teammates Fatih Kavruk and Murat Kılınç scoring 590 points.
- In 2021, he won a bronze medal in the 10m Air Pistol Team event at the European Championships in Osijek with teammates Serdar Demirel and Ismail Keleş scoring 16 points in the final.
- He is an avid lover of animals.
- In 2024, a picture of him went viral, where he was seen shooting without wearing any safety gear, barely visible earplugs, and wearing regular spectacles at the Summer Olympics Games in Paris. According to sources, he stated in an interview that he prefers shooting without gears as being lightweight helps him focus more while shooting.
- In 2024, after winning the silver medal in the Summer Olympics Games in Paris he stood on the podium and asked his ex-wife Sharon to return his dog.
- Thereafter, a video of his was shared by the ISSF on Twitter from a 2011 shooting competition in which he was seen participating without his glasses, considered basic equipment in sports shooting.
We found the young Yusuf Dikec archive footage 👀
The Turkish shooter didn’t even wear glasses in 2011 😅#ISSF | #ShootingSport | #HitTheMark pic.twitter.com/v5O3VAgkAE
— ISSF (@issf_official) August 4, 2024