Mati Kazuz: Turkey’s Rising Star in Archery and Olympic Gold Medalist

2023-08-06 18:56:47

Mati Kazuz was born in 1999 to a sports family with distinction. His father, Matin Kazuz, is an archer who represented Turkey in a number of world championships and trained Turkish players in archery. His mother, Miral Kazuz, runs the Istanbul Shooting Club, which she co-founded with his father.

In this sporting atmosphere, he grew up, who got his first bow in Third ageAnd he shot his first arrow at the age of five, while he began professional sports at the age of eleven and participated in the first international championship at the age of fourteen, after he contributed to the Turkish team in classic bow shooting winning the silver medal in the World Youth Championship that was held in the city of “Wushi”. In China 2013, and at the age of seventeen, specifically in 2016, Kazuz won the silver medal at the European Championships that were held in Nottingham, England.

Died with his family (Others)

at the Olympics

Tells Metin Kazuz “The Father” about the first moments when the child, Matteh, began to think about playing in the Olympics, saying, “In 2007, I wanted to go to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but I was not lucky. The way the father can play in the Olympics, and when asked about how, the child answered that this is possible through his participation in the 2016 Olympics, and writing the first letter of his name in which he participates with his father, and thus his name and his father’s name become present in the Olympics, and this is what has been achieved.

The boy’s dream came true, and he participated in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in Brazil in 2016, to be the youngest athlete in the participating Turkish delegation to participate in the Olympic Games, at the age of 17 years. Lieberg.

At the World Championships in Archery for the youth category in Argentina in 2017, his mate was able to win again, after he won, accompanied by Turkish shooter Yasmin Egem Anaguz, the bronze in the mixed category. At the European Championships held in Spain in 2018, he won the gold in the singles category by throwing.

In 2018, the International Shooting Federation chose Matte as the best athlete in the classic throwing category, and he was chosen by a committee from the federation as the best young athlete.

The first Turkish gold

He competed in the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021, for the second time in his sports career, to be able to win the first Turkish gold in the field of classic shooting for the individual category, after he succeeded in overcoming a number of world champions ranked in advanced positions, as he was able, accompanied by the Turkish shooter Yasmin Egem Anaguz. , winning fourth place in the mixed team category.

And in the World Shooting Championships organized in the United States of America in 2021, his team, accompanied by the shooter Yasemin Egem Anaguz, managed to win third place in the mixed team category, while he came fourth at the individual level for men, and the following year he won the bronze medal in the European Shooting Championships that was held in Munich in 2022.

During the Olympic Games for the Mediterranean region that were held in the Algerian city of Oran in 2022, his team was able to win the silver medal for the individual category at the male level, and to contribute to the victory of the Turkish shooting team at the male level with the bronze medal. Mixed teams.

And after Kazuz won the World Shooting Championship at the individual level as part of his country’s representation at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Kazuz’s third participation in the Olympic Games after Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020.

Mette spends more than 12 hours in training and devotes part of his free time to reading (AA)

The secret is in discipline

Over the course of his professional career, Mette Kazuz contributed to the victory of Turkey with 36 medals, 15 gold, 12 silver and 9 bronze. These achievements stand behind the long hours of work and training spent by Mette, the 24-year-old.

During ym normal trainingMatt spends 8 hours training in throwing, 2 hours in endurance and strength exercises, in addition to an hour swimming, while he spends his spare time reading books and learning foreign languages.

In addition to championships and medal ceremonies, the Turks also knew his mate, as a person who seeks to set an example for other children. During the Kahramanmaraş earthquake, his mate sold his bow, which he used in the Tokyo Olympics, for 200,000 liras, which he donated to the children of the earthquake.

Kazuz aims to stay in the sport of throwing, during which he seeks to be a model for children. What makes him happy most, as he described it, is the children watching him while he is playing, “hoping that one day someone will say I want to be like him. This makes me happier than winning the Olympics.” itself”.

TRT Arabic – Agencies

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