Buse Naz Çakıroğlu

Buse Naz Çakıroğlu — Biography

Buse Naz Çakıroğlu is a flyweight boxer who reached the final at two consecutive Olympic Games and took silver both times, won the world title in 2022 and has been European champion three times. She boxes for Fenerbahçe and the national team, and in October 2025 she moved to the top of the world rankings.

Her rise began in 2018, when she took silver at the European Championships in Sofia and gold at the under-22 Europeans in Romania. 2019 was her breakthrough: she won the European Games in Minsk and the European Championships in Spain at 51 kg, was named the best female boxer of the tournament, and added world championship silver in Russia. In 2021 she won the European qualifier in Paris and became the first Turkish woman to earn an Olympic place; in the Tokyo final she lost to Bulgaria's Stoyka Krasteva. 2022 was her best season: gold at the world championships in Istanbul at 50 kg and the European title in Budva. She took the European Games again in Nowy Targ in 2023, securing her Paris place, became European champion for a third time in Belgrade in 2024, and lost the Paris final 4-1 to China's Wu Yu. At the 2025 world championships in Niš she lost the final to North Korea's Pang Chol-mi and left with silver.

She received the Mustafa V. Koç Sports Award in 2023 and was elected to the athletes' committee of world boxing in September 2025. She studied physical education and sports teaching at Düzce University.