Neslihan Arın (

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Yiğit; born 26 February 1994) is a Turkish

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player. She won the women's singles title at the

2013 Islamic Solidarity Games The 3rd Islamic Solidarity Games ( Indonesian: ''Pesta Olahraga Solidaritas Islam 2013'') was an international sporting event held in Palembang, Indonesia from 22 September to 1 October 2013. The 2009 event, originally scheduled to take place in ...

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and the women's doubles title at the 2013 Mediterranean Games. Arın also won the bronze medals at the

2015 European Games The 1st European Games (), also known as the 2015 European Games or Baku 2015 (), were the inaugural edition of the European Games, an international multi-sport event for athletes representing the National Olympic Committees (NOCs) of the Europe ...

and at the 2021 European Championships,

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and 2024 European Championships

Career

Neslihan Arın became silver medalist in singles and doubles at the U17 European Championship held 2009 in Medvode, Slovenia. At the 2011 Spanish Junior International, she reached to semi finals in singles, won the girls' doubles title, and became the runner-up in the mixed doubles. She competed at various international tournaments in singles and doubles with her partner

Özge Bayrak Özge Bayrak (born 14 February 1992) is a Turkish badminton player. She is coached by Çağatay Taşdemir at Egospor club of Ankara Metropolis Municipality. Currently, she is studying at Aksaray University. She competed at various international ...

, and won titles in the years 2011–2012. The latest success enabled her to rise up to 28th place in the women's doubles world ranking list as of 20 August 2015 with Özge Bayrak. In the singles event, she reached a career-high of world number 34th in the world list on 1 October 2019. Arın ranked 7th in the World Juniors list. She qualified as the first-ever Turkish badminton player for the

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. She won the gold medal in the singles event and the bronze medal with the national team at the

held in Palembang, Indonesia. In June 2013, she won double gold medals in the women's singles and doubles event at the Mersin Mediterranean Games. In 2021, Arın reached the quarter-finals of the Toyota Thailand Open,losing out to the eventual champion

Carolina Marín Carolina María Marín Martín (born 15 June 1993) is a Spanish badminton player. She is an Badminton at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's singles, Olympic Champion, three-time BWF World Championships, World Champion, and eight-time Europea ...

. She won the bronze medal at the

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, defeated by the defending champion Marín in the semi-finals in straight games. Arın was drawn in group A along with top seed and eventual champion

Chen Yufei Chen Yufei ( zh, s=陈雨菲, p=Chén Yǔfēi; born 1 March 1998) is a Chinese badminton player. She was the gold medalist in the 2020 Summer Olympics, and also at the 2025 Asian Championships. In her junior career, she won the girls' singles ...

at the

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, against whom she lost 14–21, 9–21. She won her other group game against Doha Hany 21–5, 21–5. Arın reached the quarterfinals of the

2021 Hylo Open The 2021 Hylo Open was a badminton tournament which took place at the Saarlandhalle in Saarbrücken, Germany, from 2 to 7 November 2021 with a total prize of US$320,000. In 2021, the tournament changed its name from SaarLorLux Open to Hylo Open ...

. After beating

Aakarshi Kashyap Aakarshi Kashyap (born 24 August 2001) is an Indian badminton player. She was selected to be part of the Indian team at the 2018 Asian Games. She was part of the national women's team that won the gold medal in 2019 South Asian Games. Early l ...

and

Kristin Kuuba Kristin Kuuba (born 15 February 1997) is an Estonian badminton player. She was a bronze medalist at the 2015 European Junior Championships in the girls' doubles event with her partner Helina Rüütel. Kuuba competed at the 2014 Nanjing Youth O ...

in the first two rounds, it was the eventual champion

Busanan Ongbamrungphan Busanan Ongbamrungphan (Thai: บุศนันท์ อึ๊งบำรุงพันธ์; born 22 March 1996) is a Thai badminton player who specializes in singles. She was the women's singles gold medalists at the 2015 SEA Games, and ...

who stopped her in the quarters. Arın made it to the quarter-finals at the 2021 Indonesia Masters She defeated 6th seed

Michelle Li Michelle Li (born November 3, 1991) is a Canadian badminton player. Li is the 2014 Commonwealth Games champion and the first Canadian to win an individual gold medal in women's singles badminton at the Commonwealth Games. She has won gold in bo ...

, and

Marija Ulitina Mariia Viktorivna Ulitina (; also transliterated as Mariya or Marija, born 5 November 1991) is a badminton player from Ukraine and the National Champion of Ukraine. She represented Ukraine in the 2016 Summer Olympics and proceeded to the knocko ...

in straight games on the way. In the quarter-finals, She was stopped by P. V. Sindhu.

Achievements

European Games

''Women's doubles''

European Championships

''Women's singles''

Islamic Solidarity Games

''Women's singles''

Mediterranean Games

''Women's singles'' ''Women's doubles''

European University Games

''Women's singles''

European University Championships

''Women's singles'' ''Women's doubles''

European Junior Championships

''Girls' singles''

BWF International Challenge/Series (31 titles, 31 runners-up)

''Women's singles'' ''Women's doubles'' :

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tournament :

BWF International Series The BWF International Series is a grade 3 and level 2 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament

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