Yasemin Adar

Yasemin Adar
Personal information
Nationality Turkish
Born (1991-12-06) December 6, 1991
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
Medal record
Representing  Turkey
Women's Freestyle wrestling
World Championships
2017 Paris 75 kg
European Championships
2017 Novi Sad 75 kg
2016 Riga 75 kg
Mediterranean Games
2013 Mersin72 kg

Yasemin Adar (born December 6, 1991) is a world and European champion 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

  1. 1 2 3 "Yasemin Adar'dan Tarihi Madalya". Balıkesit Spor (in Turkish). 2016-03-10. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Balıkesir'in gururu oldu". Doğan News Agency (in Turkish). 2016-03-11. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
  3. 1 2 "Branş değiştirdi dünya beşincisi oldu". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
  4. 1 2 "Altın Madalyalı İşk Kadın Güreşçi". Spor Extra (in Turkish). 2016-03-10. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
  5. ↑ "Championnat du Monde Senior" (PDF). FILA. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
  6. ↑ "Avrupa Güreş Şampiyonası'nda bayanlar 63 kiloda Buse Tosun çeyrek finale yükseldi". Son Dakika (in Turkish). 2013-03-22. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
  7. ↑ "3 oyunlar rekoru kırıldı birden". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2013-06-24. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
  8. ↑ "Yasemin Adar dünya beşincisi oldu" (in Turkish). 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
  9. ↑ "Yasemin Adar veda etti". Spor X (in Turkish). 2014-09-11. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
  10. ↑ "Avrupa Oyunları: Güreşte 3 sporcumuz repesaj maçına çıkacak". Euro Sport (in Turkish). 2015-06-16. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
  11. ↑ "Kadınlar serbest güreşte 4 sporcumuz da yenildi". Cihan News Agency (in Turkish). 2015-09-11. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
  12. ↑ "Güreşte 2 Avrupa Şampiyonluğu birden". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2016-03-10. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
  13. ↑ "Turkish wrestlers Adar and Demirtaş win gold medals at European Wrestling Championship". Daily Sabah. 2016-03-10. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
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