İrem Yaman
İrem Yaman (born August 4, 1995) is a twice world champion Turkish female taekwondo athlete competing in the lightweight division, and an amateur kickboxer.

Private life
İrem Yaman was born on August 4, 1995. She began practising taekwondo at the age of eight.

She studied Physical Education and Sports at Hacettepe University in Ankara, and was a member of the university's taekwondo team. After earning her Bachelor's degree, she went on to conduct study for a Master's degree at Selçuk University's Sports Department in Konya.

Sports career
Kickboxing
İrem Yaman won the bronze medal in the +70 kg semi-contact category at the 2012 WAKO World Kickboxing Championships for Cadets and Juniors held in Bratislava, Slovakia. The next year, she fought a silver medal at the W.A.K.O. European Kickboxing Championships 2013 for Juniors held in Krynica-Zdrój, Poland.

Taekwondo
Yaman debuted internationally in taekwondo in 2014, and became gold medalist at the European Under 21 Championship in Innsbruck, Austria in 2014, and continued her success by winning another gold medals at tournaments in 2015 including Turkish Open in Antalya, Luxor Open in Luxor, Egypt, Ukraine Open in Kharkov and Moldova Open in Chisinau. At age 18, she became world champion at the 2015 World Taekwondo Championships held in Chelyabinsk, Russia.

As of 2018, she ranks first in the World Taekwondo's 62 kg list with 253.81 points.

Turkish world champion Irem Yaman won the gold medal in women’s 62 kg category in 2019 World Taekwondo Championships in Manchester, UK on Sunday. Beating her Brazilian opponent Caroline Santos 21-7 in the final match, Yaman protected her title as the world champion she won in 2015 and became the first Turkish female athlete to win the gold medal twice in taekwondo. She is expected to represent Turkey in 2020 Tokyo Olympics. 23-year old Irem Yaman becomes first female Turkish athlete to win gold twice in taekwondo.