Nafia Kuş Aydın (born 20 February 1995) is a world and European champion Turkish female

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practitioner competing in the heavyweight division. She won the gold medal in the women's heavyweight event at the 2023 World Taekwondo Championships held in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Career

Kuş is a native of

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, Turkey. She has been performing taekwondo since age 8. Currently, Kuş is studying Physical Education and Sports at

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. In 2013, she obtained the silver medal at the

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held in

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, Indonesia. Kuş won the silver medal at the 2014 World University Taekwondo Championships in

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, China. She became gold medalist at the European Junior Championship in

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, Austria in 2014, and continued her success by winning another gold medals at tournaments in 2015 including Dutch Open in

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, and Moldova Open in

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. She won the gold medal at the 1st ETU European Championships Olympic weight categories held in

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, Russia in 2015. Nafia Kuş won a bronze medal at the 2015 World Taekwondo Championships held in

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, Russia. She won the gold medal in the +73 kg division at the 2015 Dutch Open Tournament in

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. At the 2020 German Open Tournament in

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, she became gold medalist in the +73 kg division. Kuş took the gold medal in the -73 kg division at the 8th Turkish Open Tournament held in

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. She won the gold medal in the women's +67 kg event at the

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held in Oran, Algeria. Nafia Kuş won the gold medal at the 2023 World Taekwondo Championships held in Baku, Azerbaijan, in the women's +73 kg, defeating Greek athlete Paraskevi Ntemogianni in the first round, Reba Stewart from Australia in the second round, Gloria Mosquera from Colombia in the quarterfinals and Russian athlete Kristina Adebaio in the semifinals. In the +73 kg final, she fought with Uzbek last world champion Svetlana Osipova. Nafia Kuş, who also defeated Svetlana Osipova, won the gold medal and became the world champion.

Tournament record

References

External links

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