Yasemin Beyza Yılmaz (born 1 August 2001), also known as Yasemin Yılmaz or Beyza Yılmaz, is a Turkish

sports shooter Sport is a physical activity or game, often competitive and organized, that maintains or improves physical ability and skills. Sport may provide enjoyment to participants and entertainment to spectators. The number of participants in a par ...

competing in the 10m air pistol event.

Sport career

Yasemin Beyza Yılmaz started her shooting sport career inspired by her mother İlknur Yılmaz, who coaches the national shooting team. She is tall at . She is a member of Osmanlı Shooting Sport Club in Ankara, and is coached by Murat Yılmaz. She has been competing since 2013. She shoots right-handed. Yılnaz took the bronze medal in the 10m air pistol event at the

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, Germany. She won the silver medal with

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and

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in the junior 10m air pistol team event at the 2021 European Championship in

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, Croatia. She took the bronze medal in the 10m air pistol event at the 2021 ISSF Junior World Championships in

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, Peru. She became silver medalist in the 10m air pistol Mixed team avent with

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at the

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, Egypt. Representing her university, she competed in the 10m air pistol event at the 2023 Intercollegiate Shooting Turkish Championships in

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, she won the silver medal.

Personal life

Yasemin Beyza Yılmaz was born in

Ankara Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and List of national capitals by area, the largest capital by area in the world. Located in the Central Anatolia Region, central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5,290,822 in its urban center ( ...

, Turkey on 1 August 2001. Her father is a police officer and her mother is a coach of the national shooting team and a former national sport shooter. After completing her high school education at Türk Yurdu Koleji in her hometown, she attended

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in Ankara, for the study of Physical Education and Sport.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yilmaz, Yasemin Beyza 2001 births Living people Sportspeople from Ankara Turkish female sport shooters 21st-century Turkish sportswomen Gazi University alumni