Hande Baladın | |||||
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Personal information | |||||
Nickname | Handan, Baladinos | ||||
Nationality | Turkish | ||||
Born | Kütahya, Turkey | 1 September 1997||||
Height | 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) | ||||
Weight | 81 kg (179 lb) | ||||
Spike | 315 cm (124 in) | ||||
Block | 305 cm (120 in) | ||||
Volleyball information | |||||
Position | Outside spiker | ||||
Current club | Eczacıbaşı Dynavit | ||||
Number | 7 | ||||
Career | |||||
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National team | |||||
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Hande Baladın (born 1 September 1997) is a Turkish professional volleyball player. She started playing volleyball as middle blocker [1] in the youth and junior teams of Eczacıbaşı Dynavit in Istanbul. [2] [3] [4] [5] Since 2014, she plays as opposite spiker. Baladın is a member of the women's national volleyball team, and wears number 7. [6]
For the 2014–15 season, she was loaned out to Sarıyer Belediyespor along with four other players from the youth team of Eczacıbaşı Vitra. [7] With Eczacıbaşı Vitra, she won the gold medal at the 2016 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship. [8]
In July 2011, she was admitted to the Turkey girls' youth national team. [9] She played in the national team at the 2011 Balkan Championships held in Tirana, Albania on 12–18 July, at which they ranked fourth. [10]
Baladın won the bronze medal with national team at the 2013 Girls' Youth European Volleyball Championship held in Serbia and Montenegro from 30 March to 7 April 2013. [11] [12] She was selected "Best blocker" of the championship. [13] [14]