Rukiye_Yildirim

Rukiye Yıldırım

Rukiye Yıldırım

Turkish taekwondo practitioner

Rukiye Yıldırım (born February 12, 1991, in Ankara) is a European champion Turkish taekwondo practitioner competing in the finweight division.[1][2] She is a graduate student in the School of Sports science at Selçuk University in Konya.[3]

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She began with Taekwondo in 2002 in Kanka Taekwondo S.K. in Ankara, where she is coached by Hızır Pınaroğlu. She is representing her country at international events since 2007.[1]

Rukiye Yıldırım won a bronze medal at the 2011 World Taekwondo Championships held in Gyeongju, South Korea.[4] She is the gold medalist of 2010 European Taekwondo Championships in finweigth.[5]

She won the silver medalist in the Flyweight (49kg) division at the 2013 Mediterranean Games held in Mersin, Turkey.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    "Rukiye Yıldırım" (in Turkish). Sakin Taekwondo. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
  2. [2]
    +"Tekvadoda tarih yazdık". Hürriyet Spor (in Turkish). 16 June 2008. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
  3. [3]
    "Zeliha Ağrıs Avrupa şampiyonu". Yeni Meram (in Turkish). Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  4. [4]
    "Rukiye ve Rıdvan'dan bronz geldi". Hürriyet Spor (in Turkish). 5 May 2011. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
  5. [5]
    "European Taekwondo Union". Archived from the original on 19 November 2011.
  6. [6]
    "Rukiye Yıldırım gümüş madalyada kaldı". Haberdem (in Turkish). 21 June 2013. Archived from the original on 24 June 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
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