Merve Yenid,nya (born 2004) is a Turkish armwrestler. Competing in the senior women's +90 kg category, she has been world and European champion several times in both left and right arm categories.

Sport career

Inspired by her older brother, Yenidünya started her armwrestling career at

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in 2015. She won 16 Turkish championships as of 2023. She won the gold medals in both arms events of the Sub-junior (Youth) +70 kg at the 2019 World Armwrestling Championship held in

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, Romania. In 2021, she captured the gold medal in the Junior +70 kg event of the

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in Bucharets, Romania. She won the silver medal in both arms at the 2022 European Armwrestling Championship in

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, Romania. She received the bronze medal in the +90 kg event, and the silver and the gold medal in the Junior +70 kg left and right arm events respectively at the

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, Turkey. At the 2023 European Armwrestling Championship in

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, Moldova, she took the gold medal in the left arm event and another gold medal in the right arm event of the Youth +70 kg category, as well as two bronze medals in the left and right arm events of the Senior +90 kg category. She won the silver medal in the left arm and the gold medal in the right arm event of the Youth +70 kg category, as well as the bronze medal in the left arm and the gold medal in the right arm event of the Senior +90 kg category at the 2023 World Armwrestling Championship in

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, Kazakhstan.

Personal life

Merve Yenidünya was born in 2004. She lives in

, southeastern Turkey, and studies in the School of Physical Education and Sports at

Kilis 7 Aralık University Kilis 7 Aralık University () is located in the city of Kilis, in southeastern Turkey. The name of the university comes from the date when the city of Kilis was liberated from occupation during the Turkish War of Independence – December 7, 1921 ...

References

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