Merve Kavurat, also known as Merve Dinçel (born 22 October 1999) is a Turkish taekwondo athlete. She won the gold medal in the women's flyweight event at the 2023 World Taekwondo Championships.
Career
Merve Dinçel has won a gold medal at the World Taekwondo Women's Open Championships held in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh. She won the gold medal in the women's 49 kg event at the 2022 European Taekwondo Championships held in Manchester, England.
She won the gold medal in the women's 49 kg event at the 2022 Mediterranean Games held in Oran, Algeria.
Merve Dinçel, in the women's 49 kg category at the 2023 World Taekwondo Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan, defeated Elizaveta Ryadninskaya, a Russian athlete competing as an individual athlete, in the second round and advanced to the third round after passing the first round without a match. Dinçel defeated Dunya Abutaleb from Saudi Arabia in the third round, then defeated Botakoz Kapanova from Kazakhstan in the quarterfinals and reached the semifinals. In the 49 kg final, she won against the reigning Olympic champion Panipak Wongpattanakit from Thailand.
Later that year, Dinçel won the silver medal in the women's 49 kg weight class at the 2023 European Games and the 2023 World University Games.
Tournament record
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Living people
1999 births
Turkish female taekwondo practitioners
European Taekwondo Championships medalists
Competitors at the 2022 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Turkey
Mediterranean Games medalists in taekwondo
21st-century Turkish women
Place of birth missing (living people) World Taekwondo Championships medalists Taekwondo practitioners at the 2023 European Games European Games silver medalists for Turkey European Games medalists in taekwondo Medalists at the 2021 Summer Universiade Universiade silver medalists for Turkey Universiade medalists in taekwondo