İpar Özay Kurt

İpar Özay Kurt (born 10 November 2003) is a Turkish volleyball player. She plays for Fenerbahçe as wing spiker with jersey number 16. She is 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) tall at 69 kg (152 lb).[1][2]

İpar Özay Kurt
Personal information
NationalityTurkish
Born (2003-11-10) 10 November 2003
Istanbul, Turkey
Height1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight69 kg (152 lb)
Spike305 cm (120 in) [1]
Block290 cm (114 in) [1]
Volleyball information
PositionWing spiker
Current clubFenerbahçe
Number16
Career
YearsTeams
2017–Fenerbahçe
National team
2017Turkey U16
2018–2019Turkey U18
2019–Turkey U20
Honours
Women’s volleyball
Representing  Turkey
European Youth Olympic Festival
2019 BakuTeam
Junior European Championship
2020 ZenicaTeam
Youth European Championship
2018 SofiaTeam

İpar Özay Kurt was born in Istanbul, Turkey on 10 November 2003.[2]

Club

After playing for the İlbank in Ankara,[3] she joined the Istanbul-based club Fenerbahçe women's volleyball in 2017.[2][4] Between 2015 and 2017, she enjoyed several local and national champion titles.[2]

International

Girls' U15/U16

Kurt was part of the girls' national youth team,[3] which finished the U16 Balkan Championship held in Sofia, Bulgaria in 2017 at fourth place,[5]

Girls' U17/U18

She won the bronze medal with the national U17/U18 team the 2018 Girls' U17 European Championship in Sofia, Bulgaria.[6][7] 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.[8] Kurt played for the national team at the 2019 FIVB Girls' U18 World Championship in Cairo, Egypt, which ranked 9th.[9] As of 2020, she was 22 times part of the Turkish national youth and junior teams.[2]

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.[10]

Honours

Individual

International

References
  1. "İpar Kurt". FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship Egypt 2019. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  2. "İpar Özay Kurt" (in Turkish). Fenerbahçe Voleybol Kadın. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  3. "U16 Balkan Şampiyonası Başlıyor" (in Turkish). Türkiye Voleybol Federasyonu. 7 July 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  4. "Sarı Melekler, yeni sezonu Temmuz'da açacak". Voleybol Plus (in Turkish). 19 June 2020. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  5. "U16 Bayan Milliler Balkan dördüncüsü oldu". Voleybol Plus (in Turkish). 11 July 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  6. "Turkey 3-1 Bulgaria". CEV 2018 CEV U17 Volleyball European Championship Women. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  7. "Competition Final Standing". CEV 2018 CEV U17 Volleyball European Championship Women. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  8. "Bakü 2019 Avrupa Gençlik Olimpik Yaz Festivali (EYOF) Raporu" (PDF) (in Turkish). Türkiye Olimpiyat Komitesi. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  9. "Turkey 3-2 Argentina". FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  10. "Şampiyonlar Türkiye'ye döndü". Skor (in Turkish). 1 September 2020. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
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