Top Collegiate Times
50-Yard Freestyle: 19.36 (2/23/23)
100-Yard Freestyle: 43.11 (2/25/23)
200-Yard Freestyle: 1:41.12 (1/4/20)
100-Yard Backstroke: 48.71 (3/28/19)
50-Yard Butterfly: 21.16 (10/23/21)
100-Yard Butterfly: 44.63 (3/25/22)
200-Yard Butterfly: 1:44.89 (2/29/20)
2022-23 - Senior
Qualified for the NCAA Championships in the 100 fly and was eligible to compete in the 50 free and 100 free ... Competed in the 50 free and 100 fly, and on the relays (200 free, 200 medley, 400 medley) ... All-Ivy League First Team in the 50 free, 100 fly, 200 free relay, 400 free relay, 200 medley relay and 400 medley relay ... Set a personal record in the 50 free (19.36) and 100 free (43.11) at the Ivy League Championships ... 50 free performance was tops on the team, with the 100 free time ranking second ... Posted the team's top 100 fly effort of the season (44.91) at Ivies ... Swam on the team's fastest 200 free relay (1:16.54), 400 free relay (2:51.23), 200 medley relay (1:23.79) and 400 medley relay (3:05.51), all of which occurred at the Ivy League Championships.
2021-22 - Junior
Earned First-Team All-America honors in the 100 butterfly, finishing eighth at the NCAA Championships … Gained Second-Team All-America in the 200 medley relay (ninth), 200 free relay (ninth), and 400 medley relay (11th) with top-16 finishes at the NCAA Championships … Set school records in the 100 fly (44.63), 200 free relay, 200 medley relay, and 400 medley relay; with all four times coming at the NCAA Championships … Also placed 39th in the 50 free at NCAAs … Won Ivy League titles in the 100 fly, 200 free relay, 200 medley relay, and 400 medley relay, setting meet records and earning First Team All-Ivy I all four events … Also came in fifth in the 50 free and 16th in the 200 fly at Ivies … Posted season-best times of 19.52 in the 50 free, 21.16 in the 50 fly, 44.63 in the 100 fly, and 1:45.88 in the 200 fly … Tallied the team’s fastest time of the year in the 100 fly with school record … Clocked an NCAA A cut time in the 100 fly and NCAA B cut times in the 50 free and 200 fly … Competed at the 2021 European Short Course Championships in Kazan, Russia, placing fifth in the 50m fly, fifth in the 100m fly, and sixth in the 200m free relay … Won the 50 free and 100 fly vs. Columbia, the 100 fly at the Minnesota Invitational, and the 100 fly vs. Penn during the dual season … Helped the Crimson win the Ivy League championship for the fifth straight season.
2020-21
Competed in the 100-meter butterfly at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, placing fifth in heat four (52.44) ... Collegiate season canceled due to COVID-19.
2019-20 - Sophomore
Named a CSCAA All-American ... Qualified for the NCAA Championships posting an NCAA B-cut time and Harvard and Blodgett Pool record of 45.13 in the prelims of the 100-yard butterfly at the Ivy League Championships ... Additionally it was also the seventh-best time in the nation ... Also was invited to participate in the 200-yard butterfly and 50-yard freestyle following a pair of B-cut times at the Ivy championships and H-Y-P meet ... Earned All-Ivy first team honors in the 100-fly claiming the individual event champion in the 100-yard butterfly clocking in at 45.27 ... All-Ivy second team as a member of the Crimson's 200- and 400-yard medley relay squads ... Placed first in the 50-yard freestyle at the annual H-Y-P with a time of 19.40 - third-best amongst program records ... Posted first-place finishes in the 100-yard butterfly in four dual meets against Texas A&M and Duke, Brown, Penn and at H-Y-P.
2018-19 - First-Year
All-American in the 200 free relay ... Honorable Mention All-American in the 400 free relay and 200 medley relay ... First-team all-Ivy League in the 100 fly, 200 free relay, 200 medley relay and 400 medley relay ... All-Ivy League second team in the 400 free relay ... Set the program record in the 100 fly (45.58 – Ivy League Championships) ... Part of three relay teams that broke the school record: 200 medley relay - 1:24.33 at Ivy League Championships; 200 free relay - 1:16.43 at NCAA Championships; 400 free relay - 2:49.88 at NCAA Championships ... Member of the 400 medley relay that posted the second-fastest time in program history (3:07.67 - Ivy League Championships) ... Swam the ninth-best 50 free in Harvard history (19.75 - HYP) and the 10th-fastest 100 free (43.82 - Ivy League Championships) ... Competed in the 100 back at Georgia and logged a time of 50.51 ... Finished the 200 fly in 1:56.92 in the double-dual meet at Cornell and vs. Dartmouth.
Before Harvard
Champion of the 50 meter butterfly in the European Junior Championship in 2017 … Finalist in the 100 meter butterfly in the 2017 European Junior Championship … Won the 50 and 100 meter butterfly at the 2017 International School Federation World Championship in Hungary … National Champion … Holds multiple national records in Turkey … Finalist in the 50 and 100 meter butterfly at the 2017 World Junior Swimming Championship in Indianapolis, Indiana … Fifth in the 2017 European Short Course Championship in Denmark … Member of the LIONS Club in 2017-18 … Participated in helping children in the Youth Re-autonomy Foundation of Turkey … Enjoys chess, video games, collecting soccer sticker albums, basketball and football … Son of Mehmetcan and Yildiz Gures.
