Hatice Kübra İlgün (born 1 January 1993) is a Turkish taekwondo practitioner. She has won a silver medal at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships in the featherweight division.[1]
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| Born | 1 January 1993 Kars, Turkey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Uludağ University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 57 kg (126 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Turkey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Taekwondo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Featherweight, 57 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Bursa BB Spor Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Fikret Temuçin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport career
editHatice Kübra İlgün left it until the final second of her under-57 kilograms featherweight final to win the World Taekwondo Grand Prix in Chiba in September 2019.
A high, round kick to the head of Morocco's Nada Laraaj turned a 3-2 deficit into a 4-3 winning margin for the 26-year-old Turkish fighter whose career was gathering huge momentum up to the point where competition had to be held up because of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.[2] İlgün started taekwondo 14-years-ago though a family contact.
"My advantages are that my legs are very long, and I am strong and slim," she said. "And I work hard."
Her promise in the sport was soon evident as she earned second place in the senior under-49 kg event at the Dutch Open aged 16. The following year, she was under-57 kg bronze medallist at the European Under-21 Championships in Chișinău and senior titles soon followed in the Turkish, Ukraine and Moldova Open events.
In 2017, she took another significant step-up as she won under-57 kg silver at the World Championships in Muju, losing 7-5 to South Korea's Lee Ah-reum, who had beaten Britain's Olympic champion Jade Jones in the semi-final.
Before the year was over she had won gold at the Summer Universiade in Taipei, and she followed up by earning her first Grand Prix title in Rabat.
At the 2018 European Championships in Kazan she added another significant medal to her collection as she earned silver, losing to Jones in the final.
In 2019, she produced a series of results that bettered for consistency anything she had done before.
Her Chiba win was preceded by silver at the Rome Grand Prix, and followed by bronze at the Sofia Grand Prix and a silver in the Grand Prix Final in Moscow.
She continued into 2020 in the same dominant vein, winning the Fujairah Open and WT Presidents Cup - Europe in Helsingborg before taking bronze at the German Open.
Qualification for the next Olympics has been amply secured.
"I am really hard working," she told World Taekwondo. "And I really want to be there."
A medal at Tokyo would be a life-changing achievement. Turkey awards successful European, World or Olympic medal-winning athletes with monetary compensation and post-career coaching positions.
"That is good for building my future," she added. "But I will fight under the Turkish national flag. That is more important to me than money."[2]
Hatice Kübra Ilgün managed to win 8-6 in the final for third place against Alizadeh Zenoorin Kimia, the fighter of the Olympic Refugee Team (EOR), in the women’s category of – 57 kg during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. İlgün won the first round 3-2, and continued her form in the second round with a 2-0 win, taking the total score to 4-3. İlgün clinched the last round 4-3 and won the match with an 8-6 score.[3][4]
She won the gold medal in the women's 57 kg event at the 2022 Mediterranean Games held in Oran, Algeria.[5] She won one of the bronze medals in the women's featherweight event at the 2022 World Taekwondo Championships held in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Hatice Kübra İlgün, who passed the first round in the women's women's featherweight category at the 2023 World Taekwondo Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan, defeated Nadine Mahmoud of Egypt in the second round and Arlet Ortiz of Spain in the third round. Ilgün, who defeated Poland's Patrycja Adamkiewicz in the quarterfinals, lost to Taiwan's Lo Chia-ling in the semifinals and became the third in the world and won a bronze medal.[6]
Tournament record
edit| Year | Event | Location | G-Rank | Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | European Championships |  Manchester |
G-4 | 1st |
| Spanish Open |  La Nucia |
G-1 | 1st | |
| Turkish Open |  Antalya |
G-1 | 2nd | |
| WT Presidents Cup - Europe |  Durrës |
G-1 | 3rd | |
| 2021 | Olympic Games |  Tokyo |
G-20 | 3rd |
| European Championships |  Sofia |
G-4 | 2nd | |
| WT Presidents Cup - Europe | Durres |
G-1 | 3rd | |
| 2020 | WT Presidents Cup - Europe |  Helsingborg |
G-1 | 1st |
| European Clubs Championships |  Zagreb |
G-1 | 1st | |
| Fujairah Open |  Fujairah |
G-1 | 1st | |
| German Open |  Hamburg |
G-1 | 3rd | |
| 2019 | Grand Prix | Chiba |
G-4 | 1st |
| Grand Prix |  Rome |
G-4 | 2nd | |
| Grand Prix |  Moscow |
G-8 | 2nd | |
| Grand Prix | Sofia |
G-4 | 3rd | |
| Spanish Open | Castellón de la Plana |
G-4 | 1st | |
| US Open |  Las Vegas |
G-1 | 1st | |
| WT Presidents Cup - Europe | Antalya |
G-1 | 1st | |
| Asian Open |  Ho Chi Minh City |
G-1 | 2nd | |
| Dutch Open |  Nijmegen |
G-1 | 3rd | |
| 2018 | Grand Prix | Moscow |
G-4 | 3rd |
| Grand Slam - Qualification |  Wuxi |
G-4 | 2nd | |
| European Championships | Kazan |
G-4 | 2nd | |
| European Clubs Championships | Istanbul |
G-1 | 1st | |
| Turkish Open | Istanbul |
G-1 | 1st | |
| Egypt Open |  Alexandria |
G-1 | 1st | |
| Sofia Open | Sofia |
G-1 | 1st | |
| WT Presidents Cup - Europe |  Athens |
G-1 | 1st | |
| 2017 | World Championships |  Rabat |
G-12 | 2nd |
| Grand Prix | Rabat |
G-4 | 1st | |
| Universiade |  Taipei |
G-2 | 1st | |
| European Clubs Championships | Antalya |
G-1 | 1st | |
| Moldova Open |  Ciorescu |
G-1 | 2nd | |
| Turkish Open | Antalya |
G-1 | 3rd | |
| WT Presidents Cup - Europe | Athens |
G-1 | 3rd | |
| 2016 | WT Presidents Cup - Europe | Bonn |
G-1 | 1st |
| Greece Open | Thessaloniki |
G-1 | 1st | |
| Palestine Open |  Ramallah |
G-1 | 1st | |
| Israel Open |  Ramla |
G-1 | 1st | |
| European Clubs Championships | Antalya |
G-1 | 3rd | |
| Turkish Open | Antalya |
G-1 | 3rd | |
| Serbia Open |  Belgrade |
G-1 | 3rd | |
| 2015 | Ukraine Open |  Kharkov |
G-1 | 1st |
| Moldova Open | Chișinău |
G-1 | 1st | |
| 2014 | Turkish Open | Antalya |
G-1 | 1st |
| 2013 | Mediterranean Games | Mersin |
G-4 | 2nd |
| European U-21 Championships | Chișinău |
G-4 | 3rd | |
| German Open | Hamburg |
G-1 | 3rd | |
| 2010 | Dutch Open | Eindhoven |
G-1 | 2nd |
| 2009 | German Open | Hamburg |
G-1 | 1st |
References
edit- ^ "Hatice Kübra İlgün'den gümüş madalya". Fanatik (in Turkish). 30 June 2017. Archived from the original on 9 March 2024. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
- ^ a b "Hatice Kübra İlgün: Last gasp heroics in Chiba". Archived from the original on 26 April 2021. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
- ^ "Olympic Games Tokyo / Taekwondo: Turkish Hatice Kübra Ilgün decorated in bronze". Archived from the original on 25 July 2021. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
- ^ "Taekwondo brings Turkey's first medals at Tokyo 2020 Olympics | Daily Sabah". Daily Sabah. 25 July 2021. Archived from the original on 25 July 2021. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
- ^ "Taekwondo Results Book" (PDF). 2022 Mediterranean Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 July 2022. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
- ^ "Hatice Kübra ile yine gururlandık". Archived from the original on 31 May 2023. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
External links
edit- Hatice Kubra Ilgun profile at World Taekwondo
- Hatice Kubra Ilgun ranking at World Taekwondo
- Hatice Kübra Ilgün at TaekwondoData.com
- Hatice Kubra Ilgun at Olympics.com
- Hatice Kubra Ilgun at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
- Hatice Kübra İlgün at Olympedia (archive)
- Hatice Kübra İlgün at the Turkish Olympic Committee's Olimpedya
- Hatice Kübra İlgün at the Türkiye Milli Olimpiyat Komitesi (in Turkish)
