Hatice Kübra İlgün

Hatice Kübra İlgün
Personal information
Born	1 January 1993 (age 31); Kars, Turkey
Alma mater	Uludağ University
Height	175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	57 kg (126 lb)
Sport
Country	Turkey
Sport	Taekwondo
Event(s)	Featherweight, 57 kg
Club	Bursa BB Spor Club
Coached by	Fikret Temuçin
Medal record
Women's taekwondo
Representing Turkey
Olympic Games
World Championships
European Championships
Grand Prix
Grand Slam (Qualification)
European Games
Mediterranean Games
Islamic Solidarity Games
World University Games
European Junior Championships

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] and a bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Sport career

Hatice Kübra İlgün left it until the final second of her under-57 kilograms featherweight final to win the World Taekwondo Grand Prix in Chibas 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


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	Durrës	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
2015	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

^ "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

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)

[1] "Hatice Kübra İlgün'den gümüş madalya". Fanatik (in Turkish). 30 June 2017. Archived from the original on 9 March 2024. Retrieved 30 June 2017.

[insidethegames.biz-2] "Hatice Kübra İlgün: Last gasp heroics in Chiba". Archived from the original on 26 April 2021. Retrieved 26 April 2021.

[3] "Olympic Games Tokyo / Taekwondo: Turkish Hatice Kübra Ilgün decorated in bronze". Archived from the original on 25 July 2021. Retrieved 25 July 2021.

[4] "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_mediterranean_games_2022-5] "Taekwondo Results Book" (PDF). 2022 Mediterranean Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 July 2022. Retrieved 6 July 2022.

[6] "Hatice Kübra ile yine gururlandık". Archived from the original on 31 May 2023. Retrieved 9 March 2024.

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v t e Olympic medalists for Turkey
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 (2 titles) Eray Şamdan Şevval İlayda Tarhan Yusuf Dikeç Hatice Akbaş
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 (2 titles) Ali Sofuoğlu Merve Çoban Uğur Aktaş Abdullah Yıldırmış Mete Gazoz Ulaş Tümer Buse Tosun Çavuşoğlu Esra Yıldız Nafia Kuş