Turkey at the 2008 World Women's Boxing Championship
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Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
(listed as TUR) participated in the 5th AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championship
2008 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championship
The 2008 AIBA Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships was an international women's boxing competition hosted by China from November 22 to 29, 2008 in Ningbo City...
held between November 22-29, 2008 at Ningbo Sports Center in Ningbo City, China
China
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With eleven women boxer
Women's boxing
Women's boxing first appeared in the Olympic Games at a demonstration bout in 1902. For most of the 20th century, however, it was banned in most nations. Its revival was pioneered by the Swedish Amateur Boxing Association, which sanctioned events for women in 1988. The British Amateur Boxing...
s participating, Turkey won two gold and two bronze medals. It ranked 2nd in the unofficial medal table after China.
Participants
| Weight | Name | City | Club |
|---|---|---|---|
| 46 kg | Serpil Yassıkaya Serpil Yassıkaya Serpil Yassıkaya is a Turkish female boxer competing in the pinweight division.-Achievements:*2006 Women's European Union Amateur Boxing Championships Porto Torres, Italy 46 kg -... |
Ankara Ankara Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million.... |
Ankara BBS |
| 48 kg | Gulseda Başıbütün | Ankara | Fenerbahçe Fenerbahçe Boxing Fenerbahçe Boxing is the men's and women's boxing section of Fenerbahçe S.K., a major sports club in Istanbul, Turkey. Fenerbahçe Boxers use Dereağzı Facilities... |
| 50 kg | Sümeyra Yazıcı | Istanbul Istanbul Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and... |
Fenerbahçe |
| 52 kg | Ayşe Taş Ayşe Taş Ayşe Taş is a Turkish female boxer compeing in the Bantamweight division. She is a member of the Fenerbahçe Boxing team.As of December 1, 2010, Ayşe Taş ranked second in her weight category at the "World Women's Rankings" list.... |
Istanbul | Fenerhahçe |
| 54 kg | Meryem Aslan Zeybek | Van Van, Turkey Van is a city in southeastern Turkey and the seat of the Kurdish-majority Van Province, and is located on the eastern shore of Lake Van. The city's official population in 2010 was 367,419, but many estimates put this as much higher with a 1996 estimate stating 500,000 and former Mayor Burhan... |
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| 57 kg | Nagihan Gül | Kocaeli Izmit İzmit is a city in Turkey, administrative center of Kocaeli Province as well as the Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality. It is located at the Gulf of İzmit in the Sea of Marmara, about east of Istanbul, on the northwestern part of Anatolia. The city center has a population of 294.875... |
Kocaeli BBS |
| 60 kg | Gonca Yılmaz | Ankara | Ankara BBS |
| 63 kg | Gülsüm Tatar Gülsüm Tatar Gülsüm Şeyma Tatar is a world and European champion Turkish female boxer. After having boxed seven years for the sports club Fenerbahçe Boxing in Istanbul, she transferred in 2010 to Birlikspor in Kayseri, Turkey.... |
İstanbul | Fenerbahçe |
| 70 kg | Nurcan Çarkçı Nurcan Çarkçi Nurcan Çarkçı Göksel is a Turkish female boxer. Since the end of 2006, she is member of the sports club Kıraç Municipality in Istanbul, Turkey.... |
İstanbul | Kıraç BS |
| 80 kg | Selma Yağcı Selma Yagci Selma Yağcı is a Turkish female boxer competing in the cruiserweight division. She is a member of the Municipality club in Denizli, Turkey.... |
Denizli Denizli Denizli is a growing industrial city in the Southwestern part of Turkey and the eastern end of the alluvial valley formed by the river Büyük Menderes, where the plain reaches an elevation of about a hundred meters. Denizli is located in southwestern Turkey, in the country's Aegean Region.The city... |
Denizli BS |
| 86 kg | Şemsi Yaralı Semsi Yarali Şemsi Yaralı is a world and European champion Turkish female boxer competing in the heavyweight division. She is a member of the TSE club in Ankara, Turkey.... |
Ankara | TSE |
Medals2008 AIBA Women's World Boxing ChampionshipThe 2008 AIBA Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships was an international women's boxing competition hosted by China from November 22 to 29, 2008 in Ningbo City...
| 2008 World Women’s Boxing Championship | ||||
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| Weight | Name | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 63 kg | Gülsüm Tatar Gülsüm Tatar Gülsüm Şeyma Tatar is a world and European champion Turkish female boxer. After having boxed seven years for the sports club Fenerbahçe Boxing in Istanbul, she transferred in 2010 to Birlikspor in Kayseri, Turkey.... |
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| 70 kg | Nurcan Çarkçı Nurcan Çarkçi Nurcan Çarkçı Göksel is a Turkish female boxer. Since the end of 2006, she is member of the sports club Kıraç Municipality in Istanbul, Turkey.... |
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| 80 kg | Selma Yağcı Selma Yagci Selma Yağcı is a Turkish female boxer competing in the cruiserweight division. She is a member of the Municipality club in Denizli, Turkey.... |
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| 86 kg | Şemsi Yaralı Semsi Yarali Şemsi Yaralı is a world and European champion Turkish female boxer competing in the heavyweight division. She is a member of the TSE club in Ankara, Turkey.... |
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Results by event
| Weight | Red | Score | Blue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 46 kg | |||
| 1st round | Xiao Feng Guan  |
9 - 0 |  Serpil Yassıkaya |
| 48 kg | |||
| 1st round | Gülseda Başıbütün |
2 - 5 |  Jong Hyang Ri |
| 50 kg | |||
| 1st round | Sümeyra Yazıcı |
4 - 10 | Hyang Ok Kim |
| 52 kg | |||
| 1st round | Viktoria Rudenko  |
11 - 8 | Ayşe Taş |
| 54 kg | |||
| 1st round | Meryem Aslan Zeybek |
2 - 6 |  Liudmila Bondarenko |
| 57 kg | |||
| 1st round | Zhulduzay Imanbayeva  |
2 - 11 | Nagehan Gül |
| 2nd round | Jamila Jones  |
7 - 8 | Nagehan Gül |
| Quarterfinals | Jian Qin |
10 - 3 | Nagehan Gül |
| 60 kg | |||
| 1st round | Gonca Yılmaz |
0 - 12 |  Danusa Dilhofova |
| 63 kg | |||
| 1st round | Gülsüm Tatar |
7 - 5 | Saida Khassenova |
| Quarterfinals | Gülsüm Tatar |
6 - 0 | Hyon Hwa Ri |
| Semifinals | Jian Xia Ma |
3 - 4 | Gülsüm Tatar |
| Finals | Liubov Lopatina |
0 -11 | Gülsüm Tatar |
| 70 kg | |||
| 1st round | Rana Abdelhamid  |
4 - 8 | Nurcan Çarkçı |
| Quartefinals | Lilya Durnyeva |
6 -10 | Nurcan Çarkçı |
| Semifinals | Arian Fortin  |
16 - 5 | Nurcan Çarkçı |
| 80 kg | |||
| 1st round | Iryna Komar |
3 - 11 | Selma Yağcı |
| Quarterfinals | Anna Gladkikh |
4 -14 | Selma Yağcı |
| Semifinals | Jie Li Tang |
8 - 6 | Selma Yağcı |
| 86 kg | |||
| 1st round | Şemsi Yaralı |
10 - 0 | Inna Shevchenko |
| Semifinals | Şemsi Yaralı |
7 - 5 |  Tiffanie Nichole Hearn |
| Finals | Adriana Hosu  |
2 - 7 | Şemsi Yaralı |