National athlete. Born in 1961, Istanbul. After
graduating from Ankara 19th
May Youth and Sports Academy in 1984; she worked as an athleticism coach, in
the category of running at ENKA Sports Club for seven years. During
these years, she completed her doctorate education on “Practice Physiology” at the Sports Faculty of Marmara University
and gave lectures at the same department on athleticism. She completed her
doctorate on “Sport Management” at Philadelphia Temple University,
USA. In her thesis, she focused on “management
and marketing strategies of the basketball teams of USA”. During her
doctorate, she took charge in Planning of Sports Competitions at the Atlanta
Committee for the Olympic Games; Pennsylvania University, Sports Marketing and
Public Relations department and organization of various sports competitions.
She was assigned as “Sports Director” at
TMOK in 1996. She also worked as sports director for Istanbul 2004 and 2008 Olympic
Games’ nomination committees. She was chosen as the first female member of
TMOK’s Board of Directors in 2001 and became the General Secretary of TMOK in 2003.
Gündoğan worked in 2000, 2004, 2008 Summer, 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympic Games.
She has publications on “Türklerde Kadın ve Spor” (T.N. Women
and Sports in Turkey), “Olimpiyat Oyunlarının Ülkeye ve Kente Katkıları”
(T.N. The Benefits of Olympic Games both for the City and the Country). In 2010, she was deemed
worthy for “Women's Leadership Awards” by the European Athletics Association (EAA).
