Background

He was born in Manisa.

Career

He started athletics during his education at the military high school in Konya. In 1945, he broke the Turkish record in triple jump. He repeated his first place in the same championships of 1952

After leaving the active sports, Ruhi Sarıalp served as a lecturer for physical education in the School of Maritime at Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ).

The indoor sports hall of İTÜ, located in the Tuzla district of Istanbul, is named after him.

He died on March 3, 2001 in Izmir due to agonal respiration, and was buried in the Edirnekapı Martyr"s Cemetery in Istanbul.

Achievements

• He competed for Turkey in the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, Great Britain in the triple jump, where he won the bronze medal with a mark of 15.02 m. After his bronze medal jump at the Olympics, he won another bronze medal at the 1950 European Athletics Championships in Brussels, Belgium. He became so the first ever track and field athlete from Turkey to win a medal at the Olympics and the European Championships. Ruhi Sarıalp became champion at the World Military Athletics Championships held 1951 in Rome, Italy by breaking the World record.

Membership

He was a member of the supreme council of the Fenerbahçe Saskatchewan athletic branch Fenerbahçe Athletics.