Nurcan Çarkçı Göksel is a
Turkish
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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 ...
. Since the end of 2006, she is member of the sports club Kıraç Municipality in
Istanbul,
Turkey.
She was a gold medalist in the light middleweight (70 kg) division at the
2nd European Women's Boxing Championship held in
Pécs,
Hungary between 11 and 17 May 2003. The next year, she won a
silver medal
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at the
3rd European Women's Boxing Championship held in
Riccione,
Italy between 3 and 10 October 2004. She won a
bronze medal
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at the
3rd World Women's Boxing Championship held between 25 September and 2 October 2005 in
Podolsk,
Russia. At the
5th AIBA Women's World Boxing Championship held between 22 and 29 November 2008 in
Ningbo City
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,
China
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, Nurcan Çarkçı became a bronze medalist in her division (70 kg).
AIBA Championships Ningbo City 2008 official website
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Nurcan Çarkçı Göksel
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Awakening Fighters
Living people
Turkish women boxers
Middleweight boxers
Year of birth missing (living people)
European champions for Turkey
AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships medalists
21st-century Turkish sportswomen
20th-century Turkish sportswomen
Place of birth missing (living people)
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