Türkiye Women's Wrestling National Team's European Championship Second Place (2025)

Türkiye Women’s Wrestling National Team achieved this ranking by finishing second in the general classification of the 2025 Europe Wrestling Championship in the women’s category place.

Women’s Wrestling National Team, 12 April 2025 – Anadolu Agency

General Information about the Championship

The 2025 European Wrestling Championship was held in Bratislava, Slovakia, from 7 to 13 April 2025. After the women’s category competitions, Ukraine finished first with 180 points, Türkiye second with 158 points, and Romania third with 79 points. Türkiye competed in nine of the ten weight classes in the women’s category medal.

Medals Won by Türkiye

Türkiye won a total of seven medals in the women’s category, five of which were silver and two bronze.

Silver Medalists:

• Evin Demirhan Yavuz (50 kg): Lost in the final to Ukraine’s Oksana Livach. She is the 2022 European champion.
• Elvira Süleyman Kamaloğlu (57 kg)
• Bediha Gün (59 kg): Lost in the final to independent athlete Anastasiia Sidelnikova. She has previously won four bronze medals at European Championships.
• Nesrin Baş (72 kg)
• Yasemin Adar Yiğit (76 kg): Faced Ukraine’s Anastasiya Alpyeyeva in the final and lost 6–0.

Bronze Medalists:

• Zeynep Yetgil (53 kg)
• Buse Tosun Çavuşoğlu (68 kg): Defeated Albania’s Albina Drazhi by technical superiority in the repechage and beat Ukraine’s Manola Skobelska 9–6 in the bronze medal match.

Other Athletes Who Competed for Medals

• Tuba Demir (55 kg): Lost to Ukraine’s Oleksandra Khomenets in the bronze medal match.
• Selvi İlyasoğlu (62 kg): Competed in the repechage round.

Individual Developments of Athletes

Yasemin Adar Yiğit concluded her active wrestling career after the championship. The athlete won gold medals at the European Championships in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2024, and world championship titles in 2017 and 2022 world. She also secured third place at the Tokyo Olympics.

Buse Tosun Çavuşoğlu won a gold medal at the 2023 World Championship and a bronze medal at the 2024 Olympic Games Paris.

Organizational Statistics

The 2025 European Championship was the European Championship in which Türkiye won the most medals in the women’s category. For the first time in national team history, Türkiye entered five weight classes in the final rounds. All final matches were lost, and the tournament was completed without a gold medal. Türkiye last finished a European Championship in the women’s category without a gold medal in 2021.