Şükriye Yılmaz Explained

Şükriye Yılmaz (born 2001) is a Turkish armwrestler competing in the 60 kg category. She won medals mostly in the 55 kg category of Youth and Junior events.

Early life and education

Şükriye Yılmaz was born in a village of Gümüşhane Province, Turkey in 2001. She is the youngest of her two siblings.

She finished the İmam Hatip Anatolian Girls' High School in her hometown. She is a student of Physical Education and Sports at Gümüşhane University.

Sports career

Yılmaz met armwrestling when she changed her school, where she played handball. After two months of training, she decided to pursue this sport at age 14 in 2015. Although the armwrestling is widely known as a men's sport, she continued to perform. She went to her first tournament without the knowledge of her parents. Yılmaz proved herself to her family with her achievements. She became successful at national and international level.

At the 2018 World Championship in Antalya, Turkey, she became champion on the left arm and took the silver medal on the right arm in the 55 kg Juniur category. At the 2019 World Championship in Constanța, Romania, she became champion on the left arm of the Junior 55 kg category.

She is a member of Gümüşhane Belediyesi Sports Club. She is coached by Davut Altuntaş. The successes of Yılmaz, who had to train with male athletes due to the lack of female armwrestlers in this branch in the years she started, also changed the view of women living in the city towards arm wrestling.

International individual achievements

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Year	Date	Location	Competition	Event (kg)	Left rm	Right arm
2018	25 May – 3 Jun			align=center	Junior 55	align=center		align=center		http://www.waf-armwrestling.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/2018-EuroArm-Official-Results.pdf
	align=center			55	align=center	-	align=center
	12–21 Oct			align=center	Junior 55	align=center		align=center		http://www.waf-armwrestling.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2018-WAF-Official-results.pdf
	align=center			55	align=center	-	align=center	7th
2019	26 Oct – 4 Nov			align=center	Junior 55	align=center		align=center		http://www.waf-armwrestling.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2019-WAF-Official-Results.pdf
	align=center			55	align=center	8th	align=center	9th
2021	23 Nov – 3 Dec			align=center	Youth 55	align=center		align=center		http://www.waf-armwrestling.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2021-Worlds-Official-Results.pdf
	align=center			55	align=center	4th	align=center
2022	14–23 Oct			align=center	Youth 55	align=center		align=center		http://www.waf-armwrestling.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-Worlds-Official-Results.pdf
	align=center			55	align=center	10th	align=center	5th