Yasemin Adar

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Yasemin Adar
File:Yasemin Adar.jpg
Personal information
Nationality Turkish
Born (1991-12-06) December 6, 1991 (age 32)
Balıkesir, Turkey
Residence Niğde, Turkey
Alma mater Balıkesir University
Sport
Country Turkey
Sport Women's Freestyle Wrestling
Event(s) -75 kg
Club Trakya Birlik SK

Yasemin Adar (born December 6, 1991) is a Turkish female freestyle wrestler competing in the 75 kg division.

Private life

Yasemin Adar was born to a baker father Naim Adar and his wife Ayşegül in Balıkesir, Turkey on December 6, 1991. She has an elder sister Yıldız. Her mother died in 2013. After finishing Gaziosmanpaşa High School, she studied physical education and sports in Balıkesir University. Currently, she works as a teacher in Niğde.[1][2]

Sports career

Adar was discovered by former Turkish champion sport wrestler Aslan Seyhanlı while she was performing shot put during her high school and university years.[1][2] She then switched over to wrestling in her hometown. She competes for Trakya Birlik SK.[3][4]

Adar took part in the freestyle −72 kg event at the 2012 World Championships in Strathcona County, Alberta, Canada, gaining no success.[5]

She participated at the 2013 European Championships in Tbilisi, Georgia without having success.[6] At the 2013 Mediterranean Games in Mersin, Turkey, she became gold medalist in the −72 kg division.[1][2][7] She placed the fifth rank at the 2013 World Championships held in Budapest, Hungary after losing to Chinese Zhang Fengliu in the semifinals and to American Adeline Gray in the third place match.[3][8]

Adar reached only the round of 16 at the 2014 World Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.[9]

She failed to advance to the finals after losing to Russian Ekaterina Bukina in the −75 kg event at the 2015 European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan. She then lost to Moldavian Svetlana Saenko in the bronze medal match.[10] At the 2015 World Championships in Las Vegas, United States, Adar lost in the quarter finals to Columbian Andrea Olaya by fall.[11]

Competing in the −75 kg event at the 2016 European Championships held in Riga, Latvia, she won her country's first-ever women's wrestling gold medal at this championship, defeating Russian Alena Storodubtseva.[2][4][12][13]

References

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