Merve Tuncel

Merve Tuncel (born 1 January 2005) is a Turkish swimmer specialized in the freestyle swimming.

[1][3] She is a student at Nermin Mehmet Çekiç Anatolian High School in Yenimahalle, Ankara.

From 2019 she swims for Enka SK, but her coach is still Gjon Shyti and she continues training in Ankara.

She broke the juniors world record at Istanbul, Turkey on 22 December 2020 in the short course 1500m freestyle swimming event with 15:45.29.

[10] Tuncel was the flag bearer for Turkey together with Berke Saka at the 2020 Summer Olympics opening ceremony.