Buse Naz Çakıroğlu (born 26 May 1996) is a female

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, World and European champion and Olympic finaist

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. She is a Fenerbahçe S.K. athlete.

Personal life

Çakıroğlu was born in

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, Turkey on 26 May 1996. She studied Physical Education and Sport in

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Boxing career

The female boxer at is a member of Fenerbahçe Boxing. Çakıroğlu became champion at the

2017 Women's European Union Amateur Boxing Championships The 2017 Women's European Union Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Cascia, Italy from 4 to 12 August 2017. This was the 8th edition of this competition organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, the European Boxing Con ...

held in

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, Italy. She took the silver medal at the

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, Bulgaria. In 2019, she won the gold medal in the

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event at the

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, Belarus, another gold medal at the Women's European Amateur Boxing Championships in

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, Spain, and the silver medal at the AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships in

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, Russia. She won the silver medal in the

event at the

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. She won one of the bronze medals in the light flyweight event at the

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held in Oran, Algeria. Buse Naz Çakıroğlu won a gold medal at the 2022 Women's European Amateur Boxing Championships. Çakıroğlu beat her Irish opponent Caitlin Fryers 5–0 in the 50 kg final in the competition held in Montenegro's Budva. She won the gold medal in the women's light flyweight at the 3rd European Games held at Nowy Targ Arena in Nowy Targ, Poland, beating Armenian Anush Grigoryan in the second round, Polish Natalia Rok in the quarterfinals, Italian Giordana Sorrentino in the semifinals and French Wassila Lkhadiri in the final with 5-0 scores. She won a quota for the 2024 Summer Olympics. She became the European champion for the third time by defeating Russian boxer Anastasiia Kool 5-0 in the 52 kg final match of the 2024 European Amateur Boxing Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia and winning the gold medal. She reached the final by defeating her Spanish rival Marta Lopez Del Abbol in the quarter-finals and Bulgarian athlete Venelina Poptoleva 5-0 in the semifinals. She won the silver medal at the Women's Senior World Championship held in Serbia in 2025. She won the silver medal at the

, losing 4-1 to her Chinese rival

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in the final match of the

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held at Arena Paris Nord in Paris, France. After bye in the first round, she defeated Mexican Fátima Herrera in the last 16 round, Finnish Pihla Kaivo-oja in the quarterfinals, and Filipino Aira

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in the semifinals with 5-0 scores to reach the final. She reached the final of the

2025 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships The 2025 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships were the 14th edition of the championships, held in Niš, Serbia from 9 to 16 March 2025. It was planned to be held in Astana, Kazakhstan, in 2024 but later postponed and moved. Schedule ''All tim ...

52 kg held in Niš, Serbia, after bye in the first round, defeating Chinese Wei Sitong 5-0 in the last 16 round, Mongolian Chinabatyn Ariunzul in the quarterfinals and Serbian Dragana Jovanović in the semifinals with RSC. She lost to her North Korean opponent Pang Chol-mi 5-0 in the final and won the silver medal.

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at the

Paris 2024 Summer Olympics The 2024 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad () and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held in France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with several events started from 24 July. P ...

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Personal life

Boxing career

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