Hafize Şahin
Turkish freestyle wrestler
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Hafize Şahin (born 1 January 1992) is a Turkish freestyle wrestler. She won the gold medal in the women's 59 kg event at the 2013 Mediterranean Games, the silver medal in the women's 60 kg event at the 2014 European Wrestling Championships, and the bronze medal in the women's 59 kg event at the 2013 European Wrestling Championships. She represented Turkey at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and finished seventh in the women's freestyle 63 kg event.[1][2]
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| Born | 1 January 1992 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Turkey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Women's freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Edirne Trakya Birlik SK | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Habil Kara | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
Şahin was born in Manavgat, Antalya, and began wrestling in 2004 in Antalya. She later joined Trakya Birlik SK in Edirne, where she worked with coach Habil Kara.[1][3]
At junior level, she won silver medals at the 2010 European Juniors Wrestling Championships in Samokov and the 2012 European Juniors Wrestling Championships in Zagreb, and took the silver medal at the 2012 World Junior Wrestling Championships in Pattaya. She also won bronze medals at the 2010 World University Wrestling Championships in Turin and the 2012 World University Wrestling Championships in Kuortane.[2]
Her senior breakthrough came in 2013. She won the bronze medal at the 2013 European Wrestling Championships in Tbilisi and later won the gold medal in the women's 59 kg division at the 2013 Mediterranean Games in Mersin.[4]
In 2014, Şahin won the silver medal at the 2014 European Wrestling Championships in Vantaa. She became the first Turkish woman to reach a European Championship final in wrestling and the first to win a silver medal at the tournament.[5][6]
Şahin competed for Turkey at the 2015 European Games and at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She qualified for Rio by winning the 2016 World Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament 1 and finished seventh in the Olympic women's freestyle 63 kg event.[2][1]
In 2017, she won the silver medal in the women's 63 kg event at the 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games in Baku and placed fifth at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships in Paris.[7][2]