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İrem Karamete (born 20 June 1993) is a Turkish fencer who competed in the
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event at the
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, coming in 27th. Her mother, Nili Drori, fenced for Israel in the 1976 and 1984 Olympics, and won a team foil bronze medal in the 1974 Asian Games. Karamete won the Turkish Championship 10 times between 2011 and 2019, and won a bronze medal in the women's individual foil event at the 2022 Mediterranean Games. Karamete was the first Turkish fencer to qualify for the
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since 1984.


Early life

Karamete was born into a fencing family in
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,
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. Her father Mehmet Karamete coached the Israeli and German national fencing teams, as well as his future spouse Nili Drori. İrem's mother Nili competed in the women's individual
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at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal and 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, and won a bronze medal in team foil at the
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. Her older sister Merve also competed in fencing, and was a member of the national team. Karamete completed her bachelor's degree in
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with an athletic scholarship at Ozyegin University, Istanbul. She was the captain of her university's fencing team where she also won four individual titles in a row. In 2019, she completed her master's degree in global marketing management at
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, in the United States.


Sports career

Karamete started fencing at the age of 10. In five years she reached the national team representing Turkey in international competitions. In those years, she also won the " Turkish Champion " title in the cadet & junior categories several times. She competed in many European and World Cadet & Junior championships, reaching the top 16 at the 2009 tournament in
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, France. Karamete won a bronze medal at the Cadet & Junior Mediterranean Championships the same year. Karamete won the Turkish Championship 10 times between 2011 and 2019. In 2012, Karamete took the gold medal at the Mediterranean Junior and Cadet Fencing Championship held in
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after the Turkish women's fencing team defeated France in the final. In the same season, Karamete finished in the top 16 at both Junior World Cups in Budapest and Belgrade. Karamete took the bronze medal at the
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in
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, Turkey. She was the first Turkish woman to obtain a medal in fencing for her country in 42 years. In the 2014–2015 season, Karamete took a silver medal in
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,
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, a gold medal in
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, Turkey, a bronze medal both in Kocaeli, Turkey and
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, Denmark at the
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events. She represented her country at the
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in
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, Azerbaijan. Karamete was the silver medalist at the 2015 Balkan Championships in
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, Serbia. Karamete qualified for participation at the
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, where she came in 27th, after a successful showing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification tournament held in
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, Czech Republic. In doing so, she became the first Turkish fencer to compete at the
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since the 1984 competition. In May 2018, Karamete won the bronze medal representing her country at the Satellite Cup Bucharest. At the end of the season, she finished in the Top 16 at the Senior European Championship in Novi Sad, Serbia, and Top 32 at the Senior World Championships in Wuxi, China. In the 2019–2020 season, the road to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, Karamete obtained the following results representing Turkey: a gold medal in Antalya, bronze medals at the senior satellite tournament events in Bucharest and Amsterdam, and Top 32 at the Turin Grand Prix. These finishes gave her important points for Olympic qualification goals. She competed at the
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held in Antalya, Turkey. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's individual foil event at the
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held in Oran, Algeria.


Personal life

On 29 July 2020, Karamete married her coach, Italian Olympic fencer
Andrea Baldini Andrea Baldini (born 19 December 1985) is an Italian foil fencer, several time European and World champion and team Olympic champion in 2012. He is the only foil fencer in history to have obtained four golds (European and World - individual and ...
, in Istanbul.


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