Tennur Yerlisu

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Tennur Yerlisu Lapa
Personal information
Birth nameTennur Yerlisu
NationalityTurkish
Born (1966-11-02) November 2, 1966 (age 57)
Cologne, Germany
Sport
Country Turkey
Sport Taekwondo
Event(s)Bantamweight, flyweight, finweight
Medal record
Women's Taekwondo
Representing Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1987 Barcelona Bantamweight
European Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1984 Stuttgart Flyweight
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1982 Rome Finweight
European Cup
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1987 Girne Bantamweight
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1986 İzmir Bantamweight

Tennur Yerlisu Lapa (born Tennur Yerlisu; November 2, 1966) is a former World and European champion Turkish female Taekwondo practitioner. [1] She coached Turkey women's national team. Currently, she is a lecturer of sports science.

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She was born on November 2, 1966, in Cologne to a Turkish family in Germany. Tennur Yerlisu studied Germanistik at Istanbul University's Faculty of Letters between 1985 and 1989. In 1993, she received a master's degree in Physical Education and Sports from Marmara University. In 1994, Yerlisu began her doctoral thesis on sports organization and management at Gazi University, receiving a PhD title in 1999. [2]

In 1992, she began an academic career as a research fellow at the College of Sports Sciences and Technologies of Hacettepe University. She went on to lecture at the School of Physical Education and Sports at the Akdeniz University in Antalya in 2009. Her academic interest is all about recreation, on which subject she has publications at national and international level. She is a member of the Sports Science Association. [3] [4]

After coaching the taekwondo team of Üsküdar district from 1990 to 1992, Tennur Yerlisu became coach of the Turkey women's taekwondo national team in 1992-93, and again in 2005. [3]

Her two siblings, sister Gülnur and brother Taner Bekir, are both formerly successful national taekwondo practitioners at World and European level. They run a family-owned company for martial arts equipment. [5]

Achievements

Honors

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References

  1. ↑ "Yerlisu, Tennur". Taekwondo Data. Retrieved 2013-04-28.
  2. 1 2 3 "Tennur Yerlisu Lapa" (in Turkish). Retrieved 2013-04-28.[ dead link ]
  3. 1 2 "Yönetim Kurulu - Tennur Yerlisu Lapa" (in Turkish). Kasfad Kadınlar için Spor ve Fiziksel Aktivite Derneği. Archived from the original on 2012-12-27. Retrieved 2013-04-28.
  4. ↑ "Beden Eğitimi ve Spor Yüksekokulu - Sınıf Ders Programı" (PDF) (in Turkish). Akdeniz Üniversitesi. Retrieved 2013-04-28.
  5. ↑ "Hakkımızda-Yerlisu spor malzemeleri 1982 yılında kurulmuş aile şirketidir" (in Turkish). Yerlisu. Retrieved 2013-04-28.


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