Enkaspor is a multi-sports club established in 1983 in Istanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

, Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 by the Turkish construction conglomerate Enka Constructio Co.

Enka Insaat ve Sanayi A.S.

Enka İnşaat ve Sanayi A.Ş. is a Turkish construction conglomerate based in Istanbul. Enka has 37 subsidiaries engaged in a diverse range of construction activities including power generation, airports, petroleum, and roadways...

.

Enkaspor's main activities are in athletics, water polo

Water polo

Water polo is a team water sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper. The winner of the game is the team that scores more goals. Game play involves swimming, treading water , players passing the ball while being defended by opponents, and scoring by throwing into a...

, tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 and swimming

Swimming (sport)

Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...

 with 353 women and 467 men in active sport as of December 2010.

Facilities

Sports facilities of the club are situated within the Sadi Gülçelik

Sadi Gülçelik

Sadi Gülçelik was a Turkish entrepreneur. He graduated from İstanbul Technical University as a civil engineer and established Enka Insaat ve Sanayi A.S. with his brother in law Şarık Tara in 1957....

 Sport Complex streching over 120000 m² (12 ha) land located in İstinye

Istinye

İstinye is a neighbourhood in Istanbul, on the European side of the city. It is located between Emirgan and Yeniköy on the northwestern shore of the Bosporus, within the borough of Sarıyer. It is one of the finest seashore locations on the Bosporus where people walk around during the weekends....

 neighborhood of Sarıyer

Sariyer

Sarıyer is the northernmost district of Istanbul, Turkey, on the European side of the city. With a long shore along the water, the district boasts both a beautiful coastline and a lush forest. The Sarıyer district is a huge area consisting of the villages on the European side of the Bosphorus from...

 district in Istanbul. There are

• one athletics field with six tartan tracks,
• one multi-purpose arena consisting of
  • three basketball
    Basketball
    Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
    
    , volleyball
    Volleyball
    Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
    
     or handball
    Team handball
    Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...
    
     halls,
  • one olympic-size swimming pool, which can be covered in the winter time,
  • a semi-olympic size covered swimming pool,
  • a covered 12-lane swimming and water polo pool,
  • 12 tennis courts: six training courts of which four can be covered, two open and three covered tenis courts.

Sportspeople

Enkaspor played a leading role in bringing talented foreign athletes into Turkey. Elvan Abeylegesse

Elvan Abeylegesse

Elvan Abeylegesse is an Ethiopian-born Turkish middle and long distance track and field athlete, running in the disciplines of 1500 m, 3000 m and 5000 m, but also 10000 m, 2 miles and cross country...

, Anzhela Atroshchenko

Anzhela Atroshchenko

Anzhela Atroshchenko-Kinet is a former Turkish athlete of Belarusian descent. She competed in the pentathlon and heptathlon category.-Biography:Atroshchenko started her career in athletics with pentathlon at the age of 14 years...

, Sviatlana Sudak

Sviatlana Sudak

Sviatlana Sudak is a Turkish hammer thrower. She originally represented Belarus.-Belarus:On 5 June 1994 she set a new world record with 67.34 metres. Unfortunately, this happened before the IAAF recognized world records in hammer throw for women, so when Mihaela Melinte threw 66.86 metres on 4...

 and Alemitu Bekele are sportspeople, who were gained to compete successfully at international events for Turkey.

Many members of Enkaspor are holder of Turkish national records in their branch.

Team achievements

2010:

• Senior men Turkey champion
• Senior women Turkey champion
• Junior men Turkey runner-up
• Junior women Turkey runner-up

Notable sportspeople

• Elvan Abeylegesse
  Elvan Abeylegesse
  Elvan Abeylegesse is an Ethiopian-born Turkish middle and long distance track and field athlete, running in the disciplines of 1500 m, 3000 m and 5000 m, but also 10000 m, 2 miles and cross country...
  
   - 2010 European champion in 10,000 m and silver medalist in 5,000 m.
• Çağla Büyükakçay
  Çağla Büyükakçay
  Çağla Büyükakçay , is a Turkish tennis player. She is a member of the Enkaspor tennis team.She is the most successful Turkish player in singles women tennis with a career high WTA ranking of 168 ....
  
   - The first Turkish woman tennis player in singles to play Grand Slam qualification tournament (2010 US Open).
• Melis Sezer
  Melis Sezer
  Melis Sezer is a junior Turkish tennis player. She is a member of the Enkaspor tennis team. Her highest WTA doubles ranking is 866, which she reached on June 8, 2009.-External links:...
  
   - The first Turkish junior woman tennis player to compete in Wimbledon, US and Australia Open tournaments.
• Binnaz Uslu
  Binnaz Uslu
  Binnaz Uslu is a Turkish middle-distance and long-distance runner. She is a member of Enkaspor athletics team.She participated at the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Almería and won a bronze medal in 800 m with 2:02.68. In the 4×400 metres relay, she won another bronze medal with her teammates Özge...
  
  - 2010 European silver medalist in cross country. Gold medalist at the 2011 Universiade in 3,000 m steeplechase and 5,000 m.