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Turkey’s junior wrestler bags gold medal

Zeynep Yetgil bags gold, Aslı Demir wins bronze medal in Junior European Championship

Ersin Çelik
09:05 - 4/08/2018 Saturday
Update: 09:08 - 4/08/2018 Saturday
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Turkish wrestler Zeynep Yetgil
Turkish wrestler Zeynep Yetgil

Turkey's Zeynep Yetgil on Friday won the gold medal at the Junior European Wrestling Championships in Rome, Italy.

Competing in women's 53 kg category, Yetgil defeated her Azerbaijani opponent Tatyana Varansova and won the title.

Aslı Demir, another Turkish wrestler who competed in women’s 65 kg category, defeated her Hungarian opponent Noemi Szabados 5-3 to bag the bronze medal.

Turkey, as a team, bagged one gold, two bronze and three silver medals in total and became third after Russia and Ukraine.

#gold medal
#Juniors European Wrestling Championships
#Zeynep Yetgil
#aslı demir
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