Gülnur Yerlisu (born 1983) is a European champion
Turkish
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female
Taekwondo practitioner.
She was born 1969 in
Cologne to a
Turkish family in Germany.
Gülnur Yerlisu won the silver medal at the
1991 World Taekwondo Championships
The 1991 World Taekwondo Championships were the 10th edition of the World Taekwondo Championships, and were held in Athens from October 28 to November 3, 1991, with 434 athletes participating from 49 countries.
Medal summary
Men
Women
Medal ...
held in
Athens,
Greece. In 1992, she became European champion at the 1992 Championships in
Valencia, Spain. AT the
1993 World Taekwondo Championships
The 1993 World Taekwondo Championships were the 11th edition of the World Taekwondo Championships, and were held in New York City, United States from August 19 to August 21, 1993, with 669 athletes participating from 83 countries.
The success of ...
held in
New York City, United States, she became bronze medalist.
Her two siblings, sister
Tennur
Tennur ( ta, தென்னூர்) is a business locality in the city of Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu, India. It is situated close to the Mahatma Gandhi market and forms a part of the Abhishekapuram zone of the Tiruchirappalli Municipal Co ...
and brother.
Taner Bekir, are both formerly successful national taekwondo practitioners at World and European level. They run a family-owned company for martial arts equipment.
She is now a teacher.
Achievements
* 1990 International German Championships -
Nürnberg
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, Germany -47 kg (Youth A)
* 1991 International German Championships -
Idar-Oberstein, Germany -47 kg
* 1991 World Championships -
Athens,
Greece -43 kg
* 1992 European Championships -
Valencia, Spain -43 kg
* 1993 World Championships -
New York City, United States -47 kg
References
1969 births
Sportspeople from Cologne
Living people
Turkish female taekwondo practitioners
Turkish female martial artists
World Taekwondo Championships medalists
European Taekwondo Championships medalists
20th-century Turkish sportswomen
21st-century Turkish sportswomen
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