Sema Çalışkan
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Sema Çalışkan (born 24 July 1996) 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
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(70 kg) division. World championship bronze medalist, two-time European Championship silver medalist. She performed in categories from 60 to 75 kg.


Boxing career

Four-time winner of the national championship in the weight category up to 75 kg (since 2015, 2016) and in the weight up to 69 kg (2017) and in the weight up to 64 kg (2018). In 2016 she won a silver medal in the category up to 69 kg at the European Championships in Sofia. In the first round, she defeated Croatian Jovana Vučić, and in the quarterfinals she won by unanimous decision against Finnish Elina Gustafsson. In 2018, in June, she again won a silver medal at the European Championships in Sofia, this time in the category up to 64 kg. In the quarterfinals, she won against Antonia Aksyonova of Belarus 5:0, in the semifinals against Russian Ekaterina Dynnik 3:2. In the final she lost to Bulgarian Melisa Jonuzova 0:5. In November of the same year, she won a bronze medal at the world championships in New Delhi after losing in the semifinals to Ukrainian Mariya Bova 1: 4. In 2022, in June, she won a bronze medal at the world championships in Istanbul after losing in the semifinals to Irısh Lisa O'Rourke.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Çalişkan, Sema 1996 births AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships medalists Turkish women boxers Living people Light-middleweight boxers European Games competitors for Turkey Boxers at the 2015 European Games 21st-century Turkish sportswomen Sportspeople from Şanlıurfa