Yakup Yıldız (born 4 October 2002) is a Turkish male
compound archer and part of the national team.
Sport career
Yıldız won the gold medal together with his teammates in the second leg of the
2021 Archery World Cup in
Lausanne
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, Switzerland.
He took two gold medals, in the individual and the team event, at the
2021 European Archery Championships held in
Antalya
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, Turkey.
In 2022, Yakup Yıldız won the bronze medal in the men's U-21 team compound event at the Laško, Slovenia event in the
2022 European Indoor Archery Championships.
He won the gold medal in the
men's team compound event at the
European Archery Championships held in Munich, Germany.
He also won the silver medal in the
men's individual compound event.
References
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2002 births
Living people
Turkish male archers
21st-century Turkish sportsmen
Sportspeople from Istanbul