Nur Tatar

Nur Tatar
Personal information
Full name	Nur Tatar Askari
Nationality	Turkish
Born	16 August 1992 (age 31); Van, Turkey
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) (2012)
Weight	67 kg (148 lb) (2012)
Sport
Country	Turkey
Sport	Taekwondo
Event	Welterweight (67 kg)
Club	Ankara İller Bankası
Coached by	Cüneyt Gülçek
Medal record
Women's taekwondo
Representing Turkey
Olympic Games
World Championships
Grand Slam
European Championships
European Games
Mediterranean Games
Islamic Solidarity Games
Grand Prix

Nur Tatar Askari (born 16 August 1992 in Van, Turkey) is a world and European champion Turkish female taekwondo practitioner competing in the feather, light and welterweight divisions.^[1] She is of Kurdish descent.^[2]

She was a member of the TSE Sports Club in Ankara before she transferred to Ankara İller Bankası. She is coached by Cüneyt Gülçek.^[3]^[4]

Nur Tatar won her first medal at the age of 15. She won twice the European Junior Taekwondo Championships, and reached to gold medals in A-class tournaments in Europe.^[3] She won the silver medal at the 2010 European Taekwondo Championships held in Saint Petersburg, Russia.^[5]

She qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics^[6] where she won the silver medal at 67 kg.^[7] At the 2013 Mediterranean Games in Mersin, Turkey she became gold medalist.^[8] She qualified again for olympics at 2016

She got married in 2017 to a former member of Iranian national taekwondo team Mehran Askari.^[9]

Tournament record


Year	Event	Location	G-Rank	Place
2022	Sweden Open	Stockholm	G-1	3rd
2021	European Championships	Sofia	G-4	3rd
2020	Fujairah Open	Fujairah	G-1	1st
2019	World Championships	Manchester	G-12	2nd
	Grand Prix	Sofia	G-4	3rd
	Extra European Championships	Bari	G-4	3rd
	Spanish Open	Castellon	G-1	1st
2018	Grand Slam	Wuxi	G-12	2nd
	European Championships	Kazan	G-4	2nd
	Grand Prix	Fujairah	G-8	1st
	Grand Prix	Manchester	G-4	3rd
	Grand Slam - Qualification	Wuxi	G-4	2nd
	Spanish Open	Alicante	G-1	1st
2017	World Championships	Muju	G-12	1st
	Grand Prix	Rabat	G-4	1st
	Grand Prix	Moscow	G-4	2nd
	Turkish Open	Antalya	G-1	1st
	Slovenia Open	Hamburg	G-1	1st
	WT Presidents Cup - Europe	Athen	G-1	3rd
2016	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro	G-20	3rd
	European Championships	Montreaux	G-4	2nd
	European Clubs Championships	Antalya	G-1	1st
	Turkish Open	Antalya	G-1	1st
	Dutch Open	Eindhoven	G-1	1st
	WT Presidents Cup - Europe	Bonn	G-1	3rd
	Luxembourg Open	Luxemburg	G-1	3rd
2015	World Championships	Chelyabinsk	G-12	2nd
	Grand Prix	Mexico City	G-8	2nd
	Grand Prix	Manchester	G-4	2nd
	Grand Prix	Samsun	G-4	3rd
	European Games	Baku	G-4	3rd
	Universiade	Gwangju	G-2	3rd
	Croatia Open	Zagreb	G-1	1st
	Ukraine Open	Kharkiv	G-1	1st
	Moldova Open	Chisinau	G-1	2nd
	Kazakhstan Open	Almaty	G-1	2nd
	European Clubs Championships	Antalya	G-1	3rd
	Greece Open	Thessaloniki	G-1	3rd
2014	European Championships	Baku	G-4	3rd
	Grand Prix	Manchester	G-4	3rd
	Dutch Open	Eindhoven	G-1	2nd
	Trelleborg Open	Trelleborg	G-1	3rd
	Ukraine Open	Kharkiv	G-1	3rd
2013	Dutch Open	Eindhoven	G-1	1st
2013	Spanish Open	Alicante	G-1	3rd
2012	Olympic Games	London	G-20	2nd
	European Championships	Manchester	G-4	1st
	Olympic Games qualification Europe	Kazan	G-4	1st
	German Open	Hamburg	G-1	3rd
2011	German Open	Hamburg	G-1	1st
2011	Trelleborg Open	Trelleborg	G-1	3rd
2010	European Championships	St. Petersburg	G-4	2nd
	European U-21 Championships	Kharkiv	G-4	1st
	Dutch Open	Eindhoven	G-1	1st
2009	European U-21 Championships	Vigo	G-4	1st
	European Junior Championships	Trelleborg	G-4	1st
	Spanish Open	Alicante	G-1	3rd
2008	Belgian Open	Herentals	G-1	1st
2007	European Junior Championships	Baku	G-1	3rd

References

^ "Tatar, Nur". Taekwondo Data. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
^ "Kürt'üm, ay yıldızlı bayrağı gururla taşıyorum". Sporaktif.com.tr (in Turkish). 21 August 2012. Archived from the original on 5 March 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
^ ^a ^b "Nur Tatar". Herbalife Sports. Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
^ Güli Adnan (13 November 2009). "Vali Karaloğlu, Nur Tatar'ı altınla ödüllendirdi". Yeni Şafak (in Turkish). Retrieved 7 April 2012.
^ "European Taekwondo Union". Archived from the original on 19 November 2011.
^ "Türk Sporcular 2012 Londra Olimpiyatklarında-Tekvando-Nur Tatar" (in Turkish). GSB. Archived from the original on 2 August 2012. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
^ "Women's -67kg - Olympic Taekwondo". London2012.com. Archived from the original on 21 July 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
^ "Nur Tatar'dan altın madalya". CNN Türk (in Turkish). 22 June 2013. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
^ "Nur Tatar, Mehran Askari ile evlendi! | Spor Haberleri". www.haberturk.com. Archived from the original on 13 March 2017.

External links

Nur Tatar at TaekwondoData.com
Nur Tatar at Olympics.com
Nur Tatar at Olympedia
Nur Tatar at the Turkish Olympic Committee's Olimpedya
Nur Tatar at the Türkiye Milli Olimpiyat Komitesi (in Turkish)

[1] "Tatar, Nur". Taekwondo Data. Retrieved 7 April 2012.

[2] "Kürt'üm, ay yıldızlı bayrağı gururla taşıyorum". Sporaktif.com.tr (in Turkish). 21 August 2012. Archived from the original on 5 March 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2013.

[hl-3] "Nur Tatar". Herbalife Sports. Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2012.

[4] Güli Adnan (13 November 2009). "Vali Karaloğlu, Nur Tatar'ı altınla ödüllendirdi". Yeni Şafak (in Turkish). Retrieved 7 April 2012.

[5] "European Taekwondo Union". Archived from the original on 19 November 2011.

[6] "Türk Sporcular 2012 Londra Olimpiyatklarında-Tekvando-Nur Tatar" (in Turkish). GSB. Archived from the original on 2 August 2012. Retrieved 7 July 2012.

[7] "Women's -67kg - Olympic Taekwondo". London2012.com. Archived from the original on 21 July 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2012.

[8] "Nur Tatar'dan altın madalya". CNN Türk (in Turkish). 22 June 2013. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 23 June 2013.

[9] "Nur Tatar, Mehran Askari ile evlendi! | Spor Haberleri". www.haberturk.com. Archived from the original on 13 March 2017.

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Gold medalists	Yaşar Erkan Nasuh Akar Gazanfer Bilge Celal Atik Yaşar Doğu Ahmet Kireççi Mehmet Oktav Hasan Gemici Bayram Şit Mithat Bayrak (2 titles) Mustafa Dağıstanlı (2 titles) Hamit Kaplan Müzahir Sille Tevfik Kış Ahmet Bilek Hasan Güngör İsmet Atlı Kazım Ayvaz İsmail Ogan Mahmut Atalay Ahmet Ayık Naim Süleymanoğlu (3 titles) Halil Mutlu (3 titles) Akif Pirim Hamza Yerlikaya (2 titles) Mahmut Demir Hüseyin Özkan Nurcan Taylan Taner Sağır Ramazan Şahin Servet Tazegül Taha Akgül Mete Gazoz Busenaz Sürmeneli
Silver medalists	Halit Balamir Adil Candemir Kenan Olcay Muhlis Tayfur Rıza Doğan İbrahim Zengin İsmail Ogan Hamit Kaplan Hüseyin Akbaş Hasan Güngör Ahmet Ayık Vehbi Akdağ Necmi Gençalp Hakkı Başar Kenan Şimşek Malik Beyleroğlu Şeref Eroğlu Bahri Tanrıkulu Atagün Yalçınkaya Azize Tanrıkulu Nur Tatar Daniyar Ismayilov Rıza Kayaalp Selim Yaşar Buse Naz Çakıroğlu Eray Şamdan Şevval İlayda Tarhan Yusuf Dikeç
Bronze medalists	Ahmet Kireççi Halil Kaya Ruhi Sarıalp Adil Atan Dursun Ali Eğribaş Hüseyin Akbaş Hamit Kaplan Eyüp Can Turgut Aykaç Ayhan Taşkın Ali Kayalı Akif Pirim Hamide Bıkçın Adem Bereket Sedat Artuç Reyhan Arabacıoğlu Mehmet Özal Aydın Polatçı Yakup Kılıç Servet Tazegül Nazmi Avluca Rıza Kayaalp (2 titles) Yasmani Copello Cenk İldem Soner Demirtaş Nur Tatar Hakan Reçber Hatice Kübra İlgün Yasemin Adar Ferhat Arıcan Taha Akgül Ali Sofuoğlu Merve Çoban Uğur Aktaş Abdullah Yıldırmış Mete Gazoz Ulaş Tümer Buse Tosun Çavuşoğlu Esra Yıldız