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Nafia Kuş
Nafia Kuş Aydın (born 20 February 1995) is a world and European champion Turkish female taekwondo practitioner competing in the heavyweight division. She won the gold medal in the women's heavyweight event at the 2023 World Taekwondo Championships held in Baku, Azerbaijan. Career Kuş is a native of Adana, Turkey. She has been performing taekwondo since age 8. Currently, Kuş is studying Physical Education and Sports at Çukurova University in Adana. In 2013, she obtained the silver medal at the Islamic Solidarity Games held in Palembang, Indonesia. Kuş won the silver medal at the 2014 World University Taekwondo Championships in Hohhot, China. She became gold medalist at the European Junior Championship in Innsbruck, Austria in 2014, and continued her success by winning another gold medals at tournaments in 2015 including Dutch Open in Antalya, and Moldova Open in Chișinău. She won the gold medal at the 1st ETU European Championships Olympic weight categories held in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taekwondo At The 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games 11
Taekwondo (; ; ) is a Korean martial art and combat sport involving primarily kicking techniques and punching. "Taekwondo" can be translated as ''tae'' ("strike with foot"), ''kwon'' ("strike with hand"), and ''do'' ("the art or way"). In addition to its five tenets of courtesy, integrity, perseverance, self-control and indomitable spirit, the sport requires three physical skills: ''poomsae'' (, Form), ''kyorugi'' (, Sparring) and ''gyeokpa'' (, Breaking Technique). Poomsae are patterns that demonstrate a range of kicking, punching and blocking techniques, kyorugi involves the kind of sparring seen in the Olympics, and gyeokpa is the art of breaking wooden boards. Taekwondo also sometimes involves the use of weapons such as swords and nunchucks (nunchaku). Taekwondo practitioners wear a uniform known as a . Taekwondo is a combat sport which was developed during the 1940s and 1950s by Korean martial artists with experience in martial arts such as karate and Chinese martial ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
