Career
The 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) tall athlete at 58 kg (128 lb) is coached by Gülnara Mamadova. Merve Aydin repeated her silver medal wins in the 4 × 400 m relay event at the 2011 Summer Universiade held in Shenzhen, China. Merve Aydın qualified for participation in the 800 m event at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
She was injured during the second lap of her qualifying Olympic run on 8 August 2012.
Despite the injury she refused to withdraw and limped to the finish line coming in last in her heat to a standing ovation with a time of 3:24:35.