Neslihan Yiğit

Neslihan Yiğit
Neslihan Yiğit
	Neslihan Yiğit
Personal information
Country	Turkey
Born	26 February 1994; Bursa, Turkey
Height	178 cm (5.84 ft)
Weight	64 kg (141 lb)
Handedness	Right
Coach	Çağatay Taşdemir
Women's singles & doubles
Highest ranking	35 (WS 13 September 2012); 28 (WD 20 August 2015)
Current ranking	43 (WS), 325 (WD) (27 September 2018)
Women's badminton
Representing Turkey
European Games
Islamic Solidarity Games
Mediterranean Games
European Junior Championships
	BWF profile

Neslihan Yiğit (born February 26, 1994) is a Turkish badminton player. The 178 cm (5.84 ft) tall athlete plays right-handed and is coached by Çağatay Taşdemir at Egospor club of Ankara Metropolitan Municipality.^[1]^[2]

Career

Neslihan Yiğit became silver medalist in singles (WS) and doubles (WD) at the U17 European Team Championship held 2009 in Medvode, Slovenia. At the 2011 Spanish Junior International, she reached to bronze medal in WS, gold medal in WD and silver in mixed doubles (XD).^[1]

She competed at various international tournaments in singles and doubles with her partner Özge Bayrak, and won titles in the years 2011-2012. The latest success enabled her to rise up to the 37th place in the world ranking list as of April 19, 2012. In the doubles event, she ranks 41st in the world list together with Özge Bayrak. Neslihan ranks 7th in the World Juniors list.^[3]

She qualified as the first ever Turkish badminton player for the Olympics.^[4]

She won the gold medal in the singles event and the bronze medal with the national team at the 2013 Islamic Solidarity Games held in Palembang, Indonesia.^[5] In June 2013, she won double gold medals in the women's singles and doubles event at the Mersin Mediterranean Games.^[6]

Achievements

European Games

Women's doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2015	Baku Sports Hall, Baku, Azerbaijan	Özge Bayrak	Gabriela Stoeva Stefani Stoeva	14–21, 9–21	Bronze

Islamic Solidarity Games

Women's singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result
2013	Dempo Sports Hall, Palembang, Indonesia	Lim Yin Fun	21–13, 21–19	Gold

Mediterranean Games

Women's singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result
2018	El Morell Pavilion, Tarragona, Spain	Beatriz Corrales	21–19, 23–21	Gold
2013	Mersin University Hall, Mersin, Turkey	Özge Bayrak	21–16, 21–13	Gold

Women's doubles

Year	Venue	Match	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2013	Mersin University Hall, Mersin, Turkey	1	Özge Bayrak	Karin Maran Xandra Stelling	21–9, 21–11	Gold

		2		Maja Tvrdy Nika Končut	21–13, 21–16
3	Émilie Lefel Audrey Fontaine	21–13, 21–11

European University Games

Women's singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result
2014	Rotterdam, Netherlands	Anastasia Chervyakova	21–9, 23–25, 21–19	Gold

European University Championships

Women's singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result
2015	Warsaw, Poland	Ozge Bayrak	18–21, 21–19, 18–21	Silver

Women's doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2015	Warsaw, Poland	Ozge Bayrak	Delphine Delrue Lauranne Rosello	21–15, 21–10	Gold

European Junior Championships

Girls' singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result
2013	ASKI Sport Hall, Ankara, Turkey	Line Kjaersfeldt	14–21, 8–21	Bronze

European U17 Championships

Girls' singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result
2009	Medvode, Slovenia	Carolina Marin	9–21, 3–21	Silver

Girls' doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2009	Medvode, Slovenia	Neslihan Kilic	Celine Juel Mette Poulsen	13–21, 14–21	Silver

BWF International Challenge/Series

Women's singles

Year	Tournament	Opponent	Score	Result
2018	Czech Open	Yvonne Li	17–21, 8–21	Runner-up
2018	Eurasia Bulgarian Open	Ozge Bayrak	21–19, 21–10	Winner
2017	Turkey International	Ozge Bayrak	17–21, 17–21	Runner-up
2017	Hungarian International	Aliye Demirbag	21–11, 17–21, 21–18	Winner
2017	Czech Open	Kaho Funahashi	21–16, 14–21, 21–17	Winner
2017	Hellas Open	Mariya Mitsova	21–14, 17–21, 21–15	Winner
2017	Eurasia Bulgarian Open	Luise Heim	21–17, 14–21, 21–17	Winner
2017	White Nights	Evgeniya Kosetskaya	8–21, 21–15, 20–22	Runner-up
2016	White Nights	Mako Urushizaki	21–16, 21–15	Winner
2016	Chile International	Ozge Bayrak	18–21, 14–21	Runner-up
2016	Polish Open	Delphine Lansac	19–21, 11–21	Runner-up
2016	Brazil International	Chisato Hoshi	21–13, 21–15	Winner
2015	Peru International	Rong Schafer	17–21, 16–21	Runner-up
2015	Iran Fajr International	Linda Zechiri	19–21, 14–21	Runner-up
2014	Turkey International	Ozge Bayrak	13–21, 21–14, 21–16	Winner
2014	Bangladesh International	Yap Rui Chen	21–18, 21–12	Winner
2013	Turkey International	Stefani Stoeva	21–14, 16–21, 19–21	Runner-up
2013	Iran Fajr International	Febby Angguni	21–15, 21–14	Winner
2012	Polish Open	Ai Goto	9–21, 21–12, 7–21	Runner-up
2012	Croatian International	Kana Ito	18–21, 15–21	Runner-up
2012	Iran Fajr International	Yu Wakita	21–16, 21–14	Winner
2011	Suriname International	Ozge Bayrak	21–16, 23–21	Winner
2011	Bulgarian International	Linda Zechiri	18–21, 14–21	Runner-up

Women's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2016	Turkey International	Özge Bayrak	Kader Inal Fatma Nur Yavuz	21–14, 21–16	Winner
2015	Mersin Turkey International	Özge Bayrak	Gabriela Stoeva Stefani Stoeva	19–21, 12–21	Runner-up
2015	Lagos International	Özge Bayrak	Pradnya Gadre N. Sikki Reddy	19–21, 23–21, 15–21	Runner-up
2015	White Nights	Özge Bayrak	Ekaterina Bolotova Evgeniya Kosetskaya	22–20, 13–21, 15–21	Runner-up
2015	Peru International	Özge Bayrak	Delphine Lansac Emilie Lefel	21–14, 14–21, 13–21	Runner-up
2015	Mercosul International	Özge Bayrak	Laura Choinet Teshana Vignes Waran	21–10, 21–11	Winner
2015	Iran Fajr International	Özge Bayrak	Joyce Choong Yap Cheng Wen	21–19, 21–18	Winner
2014	Turkey International	Özge Bayrak	Gabriela Stoeva Stefani Stoeva	11–21, 9–21	Runner-up
2014	Bangladesh International	Özge Bayrak	Pradnya Gadre N. Siki Reddy	10–21, 24–22, 16–21	Runner-up
2014	Eurasia Bulgaria International	Özge Bayrak	Petya Nedelcheva Dimitria Popstoikova	11–5, 11–5, 8–11, 10–11, 11–7	Winner
2014	Hellas International	Özge Bayrak	Elena Komendrovskaja Viktoriia Vorobeva	21–7, 21–14	Winner
2014	Iran Fajr International	Özge Bayrak	Amelia Alicia Anscelly Soong Fie Cho	11–21, 19–21	Runner-up
2013	Turkey International	Özge Bayrak	Gabriela Stoeva Stefani Stoeva	15–21, 8–21	Runner-up
2012	Turkey International	Özge Bayrak	Gabriela Stoeva Stefani Stoeva	21–19, 14–21, 21–23	Runner-up
2012	Bulgarian International	Özge Bayrak	Gabriela Stoeva Stefani Stoeva	9–21, 17–21	Runner-up
2012	Kharkiv International	Özge Bayrak	Audrey Fontaine Emilie Lefel	11–21, 13–21	Runner-up
2012	Uganda International	Özge Bayrak	Michelle Claire Edwards Annari Viljoen	Walkover	Runner-up
2011	South Africa International	Özge Bayrak	Michelle Claire Edwards Annari Viljoen	21–10, 21–15	Winner
2011	Suriname International	Özge Bayrak	Crystal Leefmans Rugshaar Ishaak	21–3, 21–7	Winner
2011	Slovak Open	Özge Bayrak	Selena Piek Iris Tabeling	7–21, 9–21	Runner-up
2011	Kenya International	Özge Bayrak	Michelle Claire Edwards Annari Viljoen	21–15, 21–19	Winner
2010	Syria International	Neslihan Kılıç	Cemre Fere Özge Bayrak	18–21, 21–13, 20–22	Runner-up

BWF International Challenge tournament

BWF International Series tournament

References

1 2 "BEC 2011 European Junior Championships 15-24.4.2011 Vantaa, Finland - Media". Badminton Finland. Retrieved 2012-04-23.
↑ "Badminton Branşındaki Sporcularımız" (in Turkish). Egospor. Retrieved 2012-04-23.
↑ "Player profiles-Neslihan Yigit". Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 2012-04-22.
↑ "Milli badmintoncu Neslihan Yiğit, Londra Olimpiyat Oyunları vizesini aldı". Zaman (in Turkish). 2012-03-10. Retrieved 2012-04-22.
↑ "Badminton-Results". The 3rd Islamic Solidarity Games. Archived from the original on 2013-10-02. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
↑ "Akdeniz Oyunlarında 2 ALTIN, 2 GÜMÜŞ Madalya" (in Turkish). Türkiye Badminton Federasyonu. Retrieved 2015-01-18.

External links

Neslihan Yiğit at BWF.tournamentsoftware.com
Neslihan Yiğit at BWFbadminton.com
Neslihan Yiğit at the International Olympic Committee
Neslihan Yiğit at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com

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[s-1] 1 2 "BEC 2011 European Junior Championships 15-24.4.2011 Vantaa, Finland - Media". Badminton Finland. Retrieved 2012-04-23.

[es-2] "Badminton Branşındaki Sporcularımız" (in Turkish). Egospor. Retrieved 2012-04-23.

[bwf-3] "Player profiles-Neslihan Yigit". Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 2012-04-22.

[z1-4] "Milli badmintoncu Neslihan Yiğit, Londra Olimpiyat Oyunları vizesini aldı". Zaman (in Turkish). 2012-03-10. Retrieved 2012-04-22.

[ig-5] "Badminton-Results". The 3rd Islamic Solidarity Games. Archived from the original on 2013-10-02. Retrieved 2013-10-03.

[tbf-6] "Akdeniz Oyunlarında 2 ALTIN, 2 GÜMÜŞ Madalya" (in Turkish). Türkiye Badminton Federasyonu. Retrieved 2015-01-18.