İrem Yaman

İrem Yaman

Personal information
Nationality	Turkey
Sport
Country	Turkey
Sport	Taekwondo, kickboxing
Event(s)	Lightweight
College team	Hacettepe University Taekwondo Team
Medal record World Championships 2015 Chelyabinsk Lightweight European Championships 2016 Montreux, –62 kg Tournaments 2015 Moldova Open –62 kg 2015 Ukraine Open –62 kg 2015 Luxor Open –62 kg 2015 Turkish Open –62 kg European Junior Championships 2014 Innsbruck –67 kg

İrem Yaman is a world champion Turkish female taekwondo practitioner competing in the lightweight division, and an amateur kickboxer.

She studies Physical Education and Sports at Hacettepe University in Ankara,^[1] and is a member of the university's taekwondo team.^[2]

İrem Yaman won the bronze medal in the +70 kg semi-contact category at the 2012 WAKO World Kickboxing Championships for Cadets and Juniors held in Bratislava, Slovakia.^[3] The next year, she fought a silver medal at the W.A.K.O. European Kickboxing Championships 2013 for Juniors held in Krynica-Zdrój, Poland.^[4]

Yaman became gold medalist at the European Junior Championship in Innsbruck, Austria in 2014,^[5] and continued her success by winning another gold medals at tournaments in 2015 including Turkish Open in Antalya, Luxor Open in Luxor, Egypt, Ukraine Open in Kharkov and Moldova Open in Chisinau.^[6][7][8] At age 18, she became world champion at the 2015 World Taekwondo Championships held in Chelyabinsk, Russia.^[9][10][11]

References

1. "İrem Yaman" (in Turkish). Çankaya Savunma Sanatları Spor Kulübü. Retrieved 2015-05-19.
2. "Hacettepe Üniversitesi Taekwondo Takımı" (in Turkish). Hacettepe Üniversitesi. Retrieved 2015-05-19.
3. "Genç Milli Kick Boks Takımımız Ringi Dünyaya Dar Etti" (in Turkish). Türkiye Kick Boks Federasyonu. 2012-09-17. Retrieved 2015-05-19.
4. "Türkiye, Avrupa Kick Boks'tan madalyalarla dönüyor". Spor X (in Turkish). 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2015-05-19.
5. Durak, Onur Emre (2014-09-27). "İrem Yaman ile Berkcan Süngü, Avrupa Şampiyonu oldu". Milliyet (in Turkish). Retrieved 2015-05-19.
6. "Yaman, Irem". Taekwondo Data. Retrieved 2015-05-18.
7. "Tekvando Milli Takımı Ukrayna'da coştu". Yeni Şafak (in Turkish). 2015-05-13. Retrieved 2015-05-19.
8. "Moldova Açık Taekwondo Şampiyonası" (in Turkish). Koyuncuspor. 2015-04-18. Retrieved 2015-05-19.
9. "Turkish teen wins gold at World Taekwondo Championship". Anadolu Agency. 2015-05-18. Retrieved 2015-05-18.
10. "İrem Yaman dünya şampiyonu oldu". TRT Spor (in Turkish). 2015-05-18. Retrieved 2015-05-18.
11. "İrem Yaman Dünya şampiyonu...". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2015-05-18. Retrieved 2015-05-18.