Ersu Şaşma (born 30 September 1999) is a Turkish pole vaulter.
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| Nationality | Turkish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 30 September 1999 Mersin, Turkey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Pole vault | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Fenerbahçe Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ersu Şaşma was born on 30 September 1999 in Mersin, southern Turkey. He is a member of Fenerbahçe Athletics.[1] He was coached by Halil İbrahim Çömlekçi who died in January 2021.[2][3]
Şaşma improved his own record for juniors (U20) from 5.13 m to 5.20 m at the Olympic Trials Competition in Mersin in May 2018.[4] He won the bronze medal at the 2018 Balkan Athletics Championships in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria.[5]
At the First League of the 2019 European Athletics Team Championships in Sandnes, Norway, he took the bronze medal, and improved the national record in the Indoor U23 category about 1 cm to 5.41 m.[6]
In 2020, Şaşma captured the gold medal at the Balkan Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul, Turkey.[2]
He won his second gold medal at the Balkan Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul in 2021.[7] He broke a new national record by jumping 5.80 m at the 3rd Orhan Altan Cup in Ankara by June 2021, and obtained so a quota for the 2020 Summer Olympics.[1][8] In July, he won the bronze medal at the 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships with 5.60 m; the same mark as Sondre Guttormsen.
