Nafia Kuş Aydın (born 20 February 1995) is a world and European champion
Turkish
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female
taekwondo
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practitioner competing in the heavyweight division. She won the gold medal in the women's heavyweight event at the
2023 World Taekwondo Championships
The 2023 World Taekwondo Championships was the 26th edition of the World Taekwondo Championships and was held in Baku, Azerbaijan from 29 May to 4 June, 2023. This was the first time that Azerbaijan held the event.
Competition schedule
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held in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Career
Kuş is a native of
Adana
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, Turkey. She has been performing taekwondo since age 8. Currently, Kuş is studying Physical Education and Sports at
Çukurova University
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in
Adana
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In 2013, she obtained the silver medal at the
Islamic Solidarity Games
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held in
Palembang
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, Indonesia. Kuş won the silver medal at the 2014 World University Taekwondo Championships in
Hohhot
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, China. She became gold medalist at the European Junior Championship in
Innsbruck
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, Austria in 2014, and continued her success by winning another gold medals at tournaments in 2015 including Dutch Open in
Antalya
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, and Moldova Open in Chisinau.
She won the gold medal at the 1st ETU European Championships Olympic weight categories held in
Nalchik
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, Russia in 2015. Nafia Kuş won a bronze medal at the
2015 World Taekwondo Championships
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held in
Chelyabinsk
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, Russia. She won the gold medal in the +73 kg division at the 2015 Dutch Open Tournament in
Eindhoven
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Hamburg
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, she became gold medalist in the +73 kg division. Kuş took the gold medal in the -73 kg division at the 8th Turkish Open Tournament held in
Istanbul
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.
She won the gold medal in the women's +67 kg event at the
2022 Mediterranean Games
The 2022 Mediterranean Games ( ar, ألعاب البحر الأبيض المتوسط 2022, links=, lit=, translit=ʾAlʿāb al-Baḥr al-ʾAbyaḍ al-Mutawassiṭ 2022), officially known as the XIX Mediterranean Games and commonly known as Oran ...
held in Oran, Algeria.
Nafia Kuş won the gold medal at the 2023 World Taekwondo Championships held in Baku, Azerbaijan, in the women's +73 kg, defeating Greek athlete Paraskevi Ntemogianni in the first round, Reba Stewart from Australia in the second round, Gloria Mosquera from Colombia in the quarterfinals and Russian athlete Kristina Adebaio in the semifinals. In the +73 kg final, she fought with Uzbek last world champion Svetlana Osipova. Nafia Kuş, who also defeated Svetlana Osipova, won the gold medal and became the world champion.http://www.worldtaekwondo.org/wtnews/view.html?nid=140063&mcd=C02