Gülşah Kıyak (born in 1989) is a Turkish female

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practitioner competing in the

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60 kg division. She is a member of the Altınayak Youth and Sports Club in

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, where she is coached by İrfan Doruk. Since 2008, she is a student of Sports and Physical Education at the

Uludağ University Uludağ (), the ancient Mysian or Bithynian Olympus (Greek: Όλυμπος), is a mountain in Bursa Province, Turkey, with an elevation of . In Turkish, ''Uludağ'' means "great mountain". In ancient times the range of which it is a part, ex ...

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Early years

Gülşah Kıyak was born 1989 in

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as the youngest child of the family. Her parents moved in 1999 to Istanbul. Her father Hikmet Kıyak enrolled her upon an advice from a friend of him at martial arts training. So, she began practicing wushu in 2000 at the age of eleven in a small sport center in Esenler, Istanbul. Five years later in 2005, she won her first official champion title in the Istanbul tournament.

Achievements

;Kich boxing: * (63 kg) 2005 National Youth Kick boxing Championships,

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;Wushu: * 2007 National Junior Wushu Championships - July 13–15, 2007,

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* 3rd European Junior Wushu Championships - October 4–7, 2007,

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* (60 kg) 12th European Wushu Championships - March 6–13, 2008,

* (60 kg) 2009 National Wushu Championships - July 24–26, 2009,

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* (60 kg) 10th World Wushu Championships - October 25–29, 2009,

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* (60 kg) 13th European Wushu Championships - March 6–13, 2010,

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* (60 kg) 5th Sanda World Cup - December 16–18, 2010,

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Awards

*2008 Best female wushu practitioner (Awarded by EWuF at the 12th EWuC)

References

1989 births Martial artists from Ankara Living people Turkish sanshou practitioners {{Turkey-martialart-bio-stub