Turkish taekwondo practitioner Nafia Kuş is a European Champion, a Grand Prix winner, a World Championships finalist, and a former Student World Champion. Kuş competes in the +67kg or 73kg divisions, and is known to fans and taekwondo afficionados as ‘The Amazon’.

Kuş took up taekwondo at eight years old, and by her mid-teens had taken silver medals at both the European Junior and World Junior Championships. During this time, she quickly built a reputation on the European circuit, including winning gold medals at the Spanish and German Opens, and taking gold in the under-21 category at the 2013 European Juniors in Chisinau. She would later claim silver at the third Islamic Solidarity Games in Palembang, and would add another title to her tally the following year with a gold medal win at the Student World Championships in Hohhot.

Across her career, Kuş has taken over a dozen gold medals at Open Tournaments, including in Turkey, Belgium, Egypt, and Germany. She made her Grand Prix debut with a bang in 2015, taking gold at Moscow, and has since claimed further podium finishes in Taoyuan, Manchester and Fujairah. At the European Championships, Kuş took her first title in Kazan in 2018, following on an earlier silver and her two previous victories at under-21 level. Meanwhile, she has twice taken bronze at the Worlds, and claimed another international bronze at Tarragona’s Mediterranean Games in 2018.