Mert Tuncer

Mert Tuncer

Personal information
Born	(1975-02-11) 11 February 1975 (age 50)
Sport
Country	Turkey
Sport	Taekwondo
Medal record Men's taekwondo European Championships 1998 Eindhoven –54 kg 2002 Samsun –54 kg 1994 Zagreb –50 kg 2000 Patras –54 kg

Mert Tuncer (born 11 February 1975) is a Turkish former taekwondo practitioner who won multiple medals at the European Taekwondo Championships in the 1990s and early 2000s. His achievements include two gold medals, one silver, and one bronze across different weight categories between 1994 and 2002. ^[1]

Career

Mert Tuncer competed internationally in the men's flyweight and bantamweight divisions during the 1990s and early 2000s. He won his first major medal, a silver, at the 1994 European Championships in Zagreb in the –50 kg category. ^[2]

In 1998, he secured his first European Championship gold medal at Eindhoven in the –54 kg weight class. He continued to perform strongly with a bronze in 2000 in Patras and another gold medal in 2002 when the event was held in Samsun, Turkey. ^[2]

Tuncer's consistent success at the European level contributed to raising Turkey's profile in international taekwondo during that era. ^[3]

References

1. "Mert Tuncer". TaekwondoData. Retrieved 2025-07-24.
2. "Mert Tuncer". TaekwondoData. Retrieved 2025-07-24.
3. "Türkiye Tekvando Federasyonu" . Retrieved 2025-07-24.