Female judoka Acelya Toprak has won a silver medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. The British Turkish Cypriot from Lewisham, South London, reached the final of the Women’s 57kg Judo on Monday, 1 August, where she was beaten by Canada’s Christa Deguchi. Toprak had defeated Scotland’s Malin Wilson and Christianne Legentil of Mauritius on […]
It took eight days for Azerbaijan to win its first medal of the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games, which came on Friday courtesy of Iryna Kindzerska, who won bronze in Judo. Forty eight hours later, boxer Alfonso Dominguez claimed a second bronze medal for Azerbaijan. Kindzerska was up against Xu Shian of China in the third […]
A British teenager has won gold at Judo’s European Open in Belgrade at the weekend. At 19-years-old, Acelya Toprak was the competition’s youngest winner, beating her older and more experienced opponent, France’s Amelie Guihur, in the final of the U57kg category. Of Turkish Cypriot origin, Londoner Acelya Toprak is the reigning British U57kg champion – […]
