Nur Tatar Askari (born August 16, 1992 in

Van, Turkey Van ( hy, Վան; ku, Wan) is a mostly Kurdish-populated and historically Armenian-populated city in eastern Turkey's Van Province. The city lies on the eastern shore of Lake Van. Van has a long history as a major urban area. It has been a larg ...

) is a world and European champion

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female

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practitioner competing in the feather, light and welterweight divisions. She is of Kurdish descent. She was a member of the TSE Sports Club in

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before she transferred to Ankara İller Bankası. She is coached by Cüneyt Gülçek. Nur Tatar won her first medal at the age of 15. She won twice the

European Junior Taekwondo Championships European Taekwondo Junior Championships is a European bienal championship organized for juniors age category by European Taekwondo Union, first held in 1978. The event is contested every two years. Editions *All of results from 1978 to 2021 exi ...

, and reached to gold medals in A-class tournaments in Europe. She won the silver medal at the 2010 European Taekwondo Championships held in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

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. She qualified for the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

where she won the silver medal at 67 kg. At the

2013 Mediterranean Games The 2013 Mediterranean Games ( tr, 2013 Akdeniz Oyunları), officially known as the XVII Mediterranean Games ( tr, XVII Akdeniz Oyunları) and commonly known as Mersin 2013, was an international multi-sport event held from 20 to 30 June 2013 i ...

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, Turkey she became gold medalist. She qualified again for olympics at

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She got married in 2017 to a former member of Iranian national taekwondo team Mehran Askari.

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