İpar Özay Kurt
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| Nationality | Turkish | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 November 2003 Istanbul, Turkey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spike | 305 cm (120 in) [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Block | 290 cm (114 in) [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing spiker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current club | Stanford University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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İpar Özay Kurt (born 10 November 2003) is a Turkish volleyball player. She played for Fenerbahçe as wing spiker with jersey number 16 and now plays for Stanford University.[2] She is 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) tall at 69 kg (152 lb).[1][3]
İpar Özay Kurt was born in Istanbul, Turkey on 10 November 2003.[3]
Club
After playing for the İlbank in Ankara,[4] she joined the Istanbul-based club Fenerbahçe in 2017.[3][5] Between 2015 and 2017, she enjoyed several local and national champion titles.[3]
International
Girls' U15/U16
Kurt was part of the girls' national youth team,[4] which finished the U16 Balkan Championship held in Sofia, Bulgaria in 2017 at fourth place.[6]
Girls' U17/U18
She won the bronze medal with the national U17/U18 team the 2018 Girls' U17 European Championship in Sofia, Bulgaria.[7][8] She was a member of the bronze-medalist women's national U18 team at the 2019 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival held in Baku, Azerbaijan.[9] Kurt played for the national team at the 2019 FIVB Girls' U18 World Championship in Cairo, Egypt, which ranked 9th.[10] As of 2020, she has represented Turkish national youth and junior teams in 22 games.[3]
Women's U19/U20
She was named the "Most valuable player" of the 2020 Women's U19 European Championship in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzogovina, where the Turkey national U20 team became champion.[11]
Honours
Individual
- Most Valuable Player 2020 Women's U19 Volleyball European Championship
International
- 2018 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship – Third place
- 2019 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival – Third place
- 2020 Women's U19 Volleyball European Championship – Champion
References
- ^ a b c "İpar Kurt". FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship Egypt 2019. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
- ^ "Ipar Kurt Stanford Athletics". Retrieved 2024-02-07.
- ^ a b c d e "İpar Özay Kurt" (in Turkish). Fenerbahçe Voleybol Kadın. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
- ^ a b "U16 Balkan Şampiyonası Başlıyor" (in Turkish). Türkiye Voleybol Federasyonu. 7 July 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
- ^ "Sarı Melekler, yeni sezonu Temmuz'da açacak". Voleybol Plus (in Turkish). 19 June 2020. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
- ^ "U16 Bayan Milliler Balkan dördüncüsü oldu". Voleybol Plus (in Turkish). 11 July 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
- ^ "Turkey 3-1 Bulgaria". CEV 2018 CEV U17 Volleyball European Championship Women. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
- ^ "Competition Final Standing". CEV 2018 CEV U17 Volleyball European Championship Women. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
- ^ "Bakü 2019 Avrupa Gençlik Olimpik Yaz Festivali (EYOF) Raporu" (PDF) (in Turkish). Türkiye Olimpiyat Komitesi. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
- ^ "Turkey 3-2 Argentina". FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
- ^ "Şampiyonlar Türkiye'ye döndü". Skor (in Turkish). 1 September 2020. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
External links
- İpar Özay Kurt at FIVB.com
- İpar Özay Kurt at the European Volleyball Confederation
- İpar Özay Kurt at the Turkish National Olympic Committee (in Turkish)