Ayşe Çağırır (born January 1, 1995) is a Turkish
female boxer
Although women have participated in boxing for almost as long as the sport has existed, female fights have been effectively outlawed for most of boxing's history until recently, with athletic commissioners refusing to sanction or issue licenses ...
competing in the
light flyweight
Light flyweight, also known as junior flyweight or super strawweight, is a weight class in boxing.
Professional boxing
The weight limit at light flyweight in professional boxing is 108 pounds (49 kilograms). When New York legalized boxing in 1920 ...
(48 kg) division. She is a European Championship bronze medalist.
Boxing career
In 2014 she won a bronze medal at the European Championships in Bucharest. After two point victories in the 1/8 finals and the quarterfinals, Çağırır lost in the semifinals to the representative of Bulgaria Sevda Asenova. In November of the same year, she represented Turkey at the World Championships in Jeju, where she fell in the 1/8 finals.
On 19 May 2022, Çağırır won the gold medal in the 48 kg category at the
Women's World Championship defeating Kazakhstan's
Alua Balkibekova
Alua Balkibekova (born 24 November 1996) is a Kazakh boxer. She participated at the 2014 AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships, being awarded the bronze medal in the women's flyweight event. In the same year, Balkibekova participated at the 2014 ...
in the minimumweight final in
Istanbul
Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, ...
, Turkey.
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1995 births
Living people
People from Bağcılar
Sportspeople from Istanbul
Turkish women boxers
Light-flyweight boxers
AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships medalists
Competitors at the 2022 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Turkey
Mediterranean Games medalists in boxing
21st-century Turkish sportswomen