5.08.2017
Competing in women’s 48kg at the Junior Wrestling World Championships, held from 1-6 August in Finland, Zeynep Yetgil won bronze medal after beating her Tunisian opponent Sarra Hamdi 8-6.
Zeynep Yetgil and Sarra Hamdi traded takedowns in their bronze medal bout with African junior champion Hamdi taking a 6-5 lead in the closing seconds only to see European cadet runner-up Yetgil pull herself on top in time for the winning takedown. Yetgil had won the silver at the European Championships, held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina last week.