ANKARA
Turkish female athlete Irem Yaman won gold medal in the European G4 Extra Taekwondo Championships in Italy on Saturday.
Turkish Olympic Committee said on Twitter that Yaman beat her British opponent Jade Jones — a two-time Olympic champion — 22-9 to bag the gold medal in the Italian city of Bari.
Yaman added the gold medal to her trophy cabinet as the 24-year-old athlete previously earned another gold in the World Taekwondo Championships held in Manchester, the U.K. in May.
She was a gold medalist in the 2015 World Taekwondo Championships, claiming her maiden world title in Russia’s Chelyabinsk.
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