Hamide Bıkçın Tosun

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Birth name Hamide Bikcin Country Turkey Name Hamide Tosun Height 1.67 m		Nationality Turkey Event(s) Featherweight Role Olympic athlete Weight 57 kg

Born January 24, 1978 (age 46) ( 1978-01-24 ) Club Istanbul Buyuksehir Belediyesi S.K. Olympic medals Taekwondo at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women\'s 57 kg Nominations Milliyet Sports Award for Athlete of the Year

Hamide Bıkçın Tosun (born January 24, 1978) is a female Turkish Taekwondo athlete, who competed in the Women's 49–57 kg weight class at the 2000 Summer Olympics held in Sydney, Australia and won the bronze medal.

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Tosun took up taekwondo already aged eight. After winning the European and World championships, she married and became mother of a daughter Zeynep. Hamide Bıkçın Tosun suspended her active fighting sports life in the years 1996 and 1997. She started again 1998 to perform taekwondo and represented Turkey at the 2000 Olympics.

Achievements

1995 World Taekwondo Championships in the Philippines – gold (Flyweight)

2000 13th European Seniors Taekwondo Championships in Patras, Greece – gold (Bantamweight)

2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia – bronze

2002 7th Universiade in Berkeley, California, U.S. – gold (58 kg)

2002 Taekwondo Belgian Open in Lommel, Belgium – gold (Bantamweight)

2004 15th European Seniors Taekwondo Championships in Lilehammer, Norway – silver (Featherweight)

References

Hamide Bıkçın Tosun Wikipedia

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