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GUINNESS REFEREE AND REPRESENTATIVES TEAM WAITED FOR EKIN

A team of six-person Guinness referees and representatives awaited the record-holder athlete under water and by the side. A record trial is the first sporting research facility to be conducted on a 76-year-old subject who will spend a heavy anaerobic effort under water for 24 hours. Full-fledged health and safety team was ready for any case. Ekin went underwater for the first time to try a record under water wearing swimming suit, when evening hypothermia started wore diving suit.

During the record trial of Namik Ekin, Provincial Youth and Sports Director Cemiz Boz, Underwater Federation President Şahin Özen and Istanbul Gelişim University officials did not leave the alone. Underwater Federation President Şahin Özen emphasized that Ekin is an important sportsman who successfully represents Turkish sport in the world and said that when Namik Ekin was ready to break  the 17th Guinness Record last year, the authorities stated that 75 year-old person would not be able to accomplish this task. However, the veteran athlete reached that goal as if citing his book "The Impossible is only a word", and the authorities and the world of science were astonished. It was understood that Ekin had a heart as a 24-year-old young man. Today, we are all witnesses that the 25-year-old young man has successfully completed his new record test. Congratulations with 18th Guinness World Record - Özen said.

TOOK HIS PLACE IN HISTORY

Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Istanbul Gelişim University Abdülkadir Gayretli stated: "The record that our university's valuable sports education consultant Namik Ekin has set has a very profound message for our country youth as much as for our university youth. Whatever the age of man, he proved that he will be productive intellectually and physically as long as he places exercise his in daily life".
Burhan Aykaç, Rector of Istanbul Gelişim University, congratulated Namık Ekin, who is an example for the students of IGU School of Physical Education and Sports, with his knowledge and life for his success.

"THE RECORD HAS SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH FEATURES IN THE SAME TIME"

General director of the organization and Istanbul Gelişim University School of Physical Education and Sports academic member Dr. Kubilay Çimen stated that the record also had an important scientific research feature. "The 18th Guinness Record conducted by Namik Ekin on behalf of our university is beyond the scope of small investigations on people who, under normal conditions, are walking under water, sitting in the water very briefly while doing light work. It is the first sporting research done on a subject aged 76 years who underwent heavy anaerobic exercises under water for 24 hours. Ekin despite his senior age, managed to lift 273 tons by making hundreds of sets of lifts with 10 -25 repetitions (repetitions) and maintaining this activity for 24 hours in total".

MET HIS NEEDS UNDER WATER

The nutrition program of the record-taker was planned by Haluk Saçaklı, an Instructor of Istanbul Gelişim University, 4 months before trial, for the period of and one week after trial. During the record preparation week, Ekin was exposed to oxygen inhalation under water by inhalation of oxygen under pressure for 5 days and 2 hours a day in a turbulent pressure chamber. Ekin, performing liquid consumption and all solid nutrition under water in the form of liquid athlete nutrition did not show off water. All control was done under water for 24 hours. In the last four hours of the record, the athlete breathes oxygen every half an hour, allowing him to recover quickly.
After being recorded to Guinness Records, Ekin was presented with the "Guinness Document".

NAMIK EKIN’S INTERESTING RECORDS

On November 10, 2015, jumped to the sea from the Bosphorus Bridge at a height of 58 meters near Ortakoy with a parachute and opened 22 meters to the water. The time between jumping off the bridge, opening the parachute, filling the parachute with air and watering was calculated by Guinness as 6 sec. Guinness commitee evaluated the jump "too dangerous" and did not record so that others would not put themselves in danger in order to break this record.

In 2015 he ascended to 38.5 meters with a crane and jumped from here with parachute. This is the lowest altitude jump made from a crane up to now.

In 2014 he made 4,627 judo sprints in 24 hours and set the record in this field.

2014 On March 18th, in the memory of the martyrs of Canakkale, he lifted 379 tons and 285 kilograms in 24 hours, this record was taken from American Clarance Bass.

In 2014 he jumped from Istanbul Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge with a parachute. In the extreme wind, he struggled to hit the yalls by 6 meters, and finally he turned to the sea and succeeded to descend into the water.

In 2011, he swam 36,800 meters without ever leaving underwater for 24 hours, breaking the 34-kilometer record of US's Tonny REBEL.

In 2009, during the Fethiye International parachute festivities made real an incredible, setting the records on the Earth of jumping with parachute at the lowest point and opening the parachute at the lowest point.