Busenaz Sürmeneli

Busenaz Sürmeneli is a Turkish boxer born in Bursa in 1998 and raised in Trabzon, competing for Fenerbahçe. She won the welterweight gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics — the first Olympic boxing medal in Turkey's history — the world championship three times, in 2019, 2022 and 2025, and the European championship in 2024. ^{1 2}

Sürmeneli's family moved from Bursa to Trabzon for her father's work while she was a child. She wanted to play football as a girl, but took up boxing at the age of ten under Cahit Süme, the technical director of Turkey's national boxing team, and went on to study physical education and sport at Trabzon University. ¹

Sürmeneli's senior honours began with silver at the 2017 Women's European Union Championships and bronze at the 2019 European Championships, followed by the world title at Ulan-Ude in 2019. At the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, held in 2021, she won the welterweight gold medal by beating China's Gu Hong in the final, winning every bout 5–0, and gave Turkey the first Olympic medal in its boxing history. ^{3 1} She renewed her world title in Istanbul in 2022, won the 2023 European Games gold and the European title at Belgrade in 2024, and took a third world championship at Niš in 2025, now at 66 kg. ^{1 4}

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