İpar Özay Kurt (born 10 November 2003) is a Turkish volleyball player. She plays for Fenerbahçe as wing spiker with jersey number 16. She is tall at . İpar Özay Kurt was born in

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, Turkey on 10 November 2003.

Club

After playing for the İlbank in

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, she joined the Istanbul-based club Fenerbahçe in 2017. Between 2015 and 2017, she enjoyed several local and national champion titles.

International

Girls' U15/U16

Kurt was part of the girls' national youth team, which finished the U16 Balkan Championship held in

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, Bulgaria in 2017 at fourth place.

Girls' U17/U18

She won the bronze medal with the national U17/U18 team the 2018 Girls' U17 European Championship in Sofia, Bulgaria. She was a member of the bronze-medalist women's national U18 team at the 2019 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival held in

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, Azerbaijan. Kurt played for the national team at the 2019 FIVB Girls' U18 World Championship in

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, Egypt, which ranked 9th. As of 2020, she was 22 times part of the Turkish national youth and junior teams.

Women's U19/U20

She was named the "

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" of the 2020 Women's U19 European Championship in

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, Bosnia and Herzogovina, where the Turkey national U20 team became champion.

Honours

Individual

* Most Valuable Player

2020 Women's U19 Volleyball European Championship The 2020 Women's Junior European Volleyball Championship was the 27th edition of the competition, with the main phase (contested between 9 teams) held in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia from 22 to 30 August 2020. Qualification The qualifyi ...

International

* 2018 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship – Third place * 2019 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival – Third place *

– Champion

References

Living people 2003 births Volleyball players from Istanbul Turkish women's volleyball players Outside hitters İller Bankası volleyballers Fenerbahçe S.K. (women's volleyball) players 21st-century Turkish women {{Turkey-volleyball-bio-stub