Turkey's junior wrestler Zeynep Yetgil bags gold medal

Turkey's junior wrestler Zeynep Yetgil bags gold medal

ISTANBUL - Anadolu Agency

Turkey's Zeynep Yetgil on Aug 3 won the gold medal at the Junior European Wrestling Championships in Rome, Italy.

Competing in women's 53 kg category, Yetgil defeated her Azerbaijani opponent Tatyana Varansova and won the title.

Aslı Demir, another Turkish wrestler who competed in women's 65 kg category, defeated her Hungarian opponent Noemi Szabados 5-3 to bag the bronze medal.

Turkey, as a team, bagged one gold, two bronze and three silver medals in total and became third after Russia and Ukraine.