Nationality Turkey Height 1.73 m Event(s) Welterweight (67 kg) Role Olympic athlete | Name Nur Tatar Ethnicity Kurdish Coached by Cuneyt Gulcek Weight 67 kg | |
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Nominations Milliyet Sports Award for Athlete of the Year Similar People Servet Tazegul, Hwang Kyung‑seon, Paige McPherson, Helena Fromm | ||
Nur Tatar: My Rio Highlights
F -67kg Final, Lauren WILLIAMS (GBR) VS Nur TATAR ASKARI (TUR)
Nur Tatar Askari (born August 16, 1992 in Van, Turkey) is a Turkish female taekwondo practitioner competing in the feather, light and welterweight divisions. She is of Kurdish descent.
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She was a member of the TSE Sports Club in Ankara before she transferred to Ankara İller Bankası. She is coached by Cüneyt Gülçek.
Nur Tatar won her first medal at the age of 15. She won twice the European Junior Taekwondo Championships, and reached to gold medals in A-class tournaments in Europe. She won the silver medal at the 2010 European Taekwondo Championships held in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
She qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics where she won the silver medal at 67 kg. At the 2013 Mediterranean Games in Mersin, Turkey she became gold medalist. She qualified again for olympics at 2016 where she won a bronze medal at 67 kg.
She got married in 2017.