İrem Karamete

İrem Karamete

İrem Karamete (April 2016)
Personal information
National team Turkey
Born (1993-06-20) June 20, 1993
Istanbul, Turkey
Alma mater Özyeğin University
Sport
Country Turkey
Sport Fencing
Event(s) Foil
Updated on 12 May 2016.

İrem Karamete (born June 20, 1993) is a Turkish female fencer competing in the foil event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She is the first Turkish fencer to qualify for the Olympics since 1984. Currently, she is a student at Özyeğin University in Istanbul.

Early life

İrem Karamete was born into a fencing family in Istanbul, Turkey on June 20, 1993. Her father Mehmet Karamete coached the German national fencing team and also his spouse Nili Drori.[1] İrem's mother Nili competed in the women's individual foil events for Israel at the 1976 and 1984 Summer Olympics.[1][2] Her older sister Merve Karamete performed also fencing, and was a member of national team.[1][3]

After completing her secondary education at the Private Basınköy High School, she entered Özyeğin University in 2011. While initially her career choice was dentistry, she was persuaded to study industrial engineering instead.[4]

Sports career

Karamete began with fencing sport at age of ten.[3][4]

Domestic

She became Turkey Juniors champion and won the Turkish Juniors Cup.[5]

In 2011, she became runner-up at the Turkey Fencing Championships.[6] Karamete captured the gold medal at the Turkey Fencing Champions in 2014.[1][7][8] She was the runner-up of the Intra Universities Fencing Championships of Turkey in 2012,[5] and the winner in 2014 and 2015.[9][10]

Karamete is the captain of her university's fencing team.[8]

International

Karamete won a silver medal at the European Cadets Cup.[5] In 2012, she took the gold medal at the 9th Mediterranean Junior and Cadet Fencing Championship held in Poreč, Croatia with the Turkish women's fencing team after defeating France in the final.[11]

She has a bronze medal won at the Mediterranean Championships.[5] Karamete competed at the 2013 World Fencing Championships in Budapest, Hungary without advancing to the Round of 32.[12] She took the bronze medal at the 2013 Mediterranean Games in Mersin, Turkey. She captured a silver medal in Cancún, Mexico, a gold medal in Antalya, Turkey and a bronze medal each in Koçarlı, Turkey and Copenhagen, Denmark at the Satellite tournament events of the 2014–15 Fencing World Cup. She represented her country at the 2015 European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan.[3] Karamete was the silver medalist at the 2015 Balkan Championships in Niš, Serbia.[1][13]

She qualified for participation at the 2016 Rio Olympics after succeeding at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification tournament held in Prague, Czech Republic. In doing so, she became the first Turkish fencer to compete at the Olympics since 1984.[1][14][15][16]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Tarihi Başarı! Ülkemizi Olimpiyat Oyunları'nda Temsil Edecek Müthiş Yetenek İrem Karamete" (in Turkish). Onedior. 2016-04-19. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
  2. ↑ "Nili Drori Olympic Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
  3. 1 2 3 "Türk Kafilesinin En Gençleri Bakü 2015'ten Umutlu" (in Turkish). Gençlik ve Spor Bakanlığı. 2015-06-18. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
  4. 1 2 "ÖzÜ'den Bir Öğrenci: İrem Karamete" (in Turkish). Özyeğin Üniversitesi. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Hasal Spor Klübü Eskrim Başarılarımız" (in Turkish). İstanbul/ Üsküdar – Hüseyin Avni Sözen Anadolu Lisesi. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
  6. ↑ "ÖzÜ Öğrencisi İrem Karamete, Eskrim Büyükler Türkiye Şampiyonası'nda İkinci Oldu" (in Turkish). Özyeğin Üniversitesi. 2011-11-22. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
  7. ↑ "İrem Karamete Türkiye Büyükler Eskrim Flöre Şampiyonu" (in Turkish). Özyeğin Üniversitesi. 2014-09-08. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
  8. 1 2 "Ozyegin University Student İrem Karamete Claims the Gold Medal". Study in Turkey. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
  9. ↑ "Üniversiteler Arası Türkiye Şampiyonları Belli Oldu" (in Turkish). Parat Ripost. 2014-05-15. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
  10. ↑ "Eskrim Şampiyonasında Birinci Gün Sonuçları" (in Turkish). Bülent Ecevit Üniversitesi. 2015-04-16. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
  11. ↑ "Özyeğin University Prep Student Irem Karamete Receives A Gold Medal From the Mediterranean Fencing". Özyeğin Üniversitesi. 2012-01-30. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
  12. ↑ "Championnats du Monde – Fleuret Feminine, Budapest 05 aout 2013 – Tableau de 64" (in French). 2013 World Fencing Championships. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
  13. ↑ "Yeniden Hayat Bulan Büyükler Balkan Şampiyonası'nda 2 Gümüş ve 1 Bronz Madalya Kazandık" (in Turkish). Parat Ripost. 2015-11-01. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
  14. ↑ "Öğrencimiz İrem Karamete 2016 Rio Olimpiyatları'nda…" (in Turkish). Özyeğin Üniversitesi. 2016-04-20. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
  15. ↑ "Olimpiyat gururu". Sözcü (in Turkish). 2016-04-18. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
  16. ↑ "Olimpiyatlara yeni kota". Habertürk (in Turkish). 2016-04-16. Retrieved 2016-05-12.
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