Hasibe Erkoç (

née The birth name is the name of the person given upon their birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name or to the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a births registe ...

Özer) is a Turkish

female boxer Although women have participated in boxing for almost as long as the sport has existed, female fights have been effectively outlawed for most of boxing's history until recently, with athletic commissioners refusing to sanction or issue licenses ...

. She is a member of the TSE club in

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Career

She represented her

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in the

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(50 kg) category at the 4th World Women's Boxing Championship held between November 18 and 23, 2006 in

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. She won a gold medal and

Şemsi Yaralı Şemsi Yaralı (July 20, 1982) is a world and European champion Turkish people, Turkish female boxer competing in the heavyweight division. She is a member of the Fenerbahçe Boxing, Fenerbahçe SK in Istanbul, Turkey. She participated at the 20 ...

won a bronze medal for Turkey. Hasibe Erkoç became world champion, defeating Li Siyuan from

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in the final by 18-12. Her parents Muhsin Özer and Emine live in

Tokat Tokat is a city of Turkey in the mid-Black Sea region of Anatolia. It is the seat of Tokat Province and Tokat District.

. As a young girl, Hasibe was interested in

martial arts Martial arts are codified systems and traditions of combat practiced for a number of reasons such as self-defence; military and law enforcement applications; combat sport, competition; physical, mental, and spiritual development; entertainment; ...

, and started with

taekwondo 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 ad ...

, and then continued with

kickboxing Kickboxing ( ) is a full-contact hybrid Martial arts, martial art and Boxing (disambiguation), boxing type based on punch (combat), punching and kicking. Kickboxing originated in the 1950s to 1970s. The fight takes place in a boxing ring, norma ...

. However, in 1991, a foot injury forced her to switch to

boxing Boxing is a combat sport and martial art. Taking place in a boxing ring, it involves two people – usually wearing protective equipment, such as boxing glove, protective gloves, hand wraps, and mouthguards – throwing Punch (combat), punch ...

References

External links

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