Ebrar Karakurt

Ebrar Karakurt (born 17 January 2000) is a Turkish volleyball player. She is 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) tall and plays as opposite. She is part of the Turkey women's national volleyball team.[1][2]

Ebrar Karakurt
Personal information
Born (2000-01-17) 17 January 2000
Height1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Weight72 kg (159 lb)
Spike307 cm (121 in)
Block305 cm (120 in)
Volleyball information
PositionOpposite
Current clubVakıfbank
National team
2017Turkey U18
2017–Turkey U23
2018–Turkey
Honours
Women’s Volleyball
Representing the  Turkey
European Championships
2019 TurkeyTeam
FIVB Nations League
2018 NanjingTeam
Women's U23 World Championship
2017 LjubljanaTeam

Volleyball career

Club

Karakurt started her volleyball career at DSİ Spor in Balıkesir. After settling in Bursa, she continued to play in her school team at Bursa Bahçeşehir Anadolu High School, and at the same time in the Bursa Büyükşehir Belediyespor.[3] She played for Bursa BB in the 2014–15 Turkish Women's Volleyball League.[4] She has two club licenses, which allow her to play for Bursa BB and Vakıfbank.[5] She was a member of the youth team at Vakıfbank before she was taken to the senior team.[5][6][7]

She was part of the Vakıfbank team, which became champion of the 2017–18 CEV Women's Champions League.

National Team

She was part of the Turkey U18 team, and played at the 2017 Girls' U18 Volleyball European Championship in the Netherlands,[8] as well as at the 2017 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship in Argentina.[9] She was named one of the two Best Outside Spikers of the world tournament.[10]

She participated at the 2017 FIVB Volleyball Women's U23 World Championship in Slovenia with the Turkey U23 team, which became the champion of the tournament.[6][11]

After being admitted to the Turkey national team, she experienced many important achievements, the most current of which is the silver medal at the 2019 Women’s European Championship organized in Ankara, Turkey. Before that, she played in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League with her team and reached to the silver medal.

Honours

Club

 
2017–18 CEV Women's Champions League,
2019 FIVB Club World Championship –  Bronze medal, with VakıfBank

National team

Individual

References
  1. "Turkey – Ebrar Karakurt". FIVB Girls' U18 World Championship. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  2. "Turkey – Ebrar Karakurt". Volleyball Nations League. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  3. "Bahçeşehir'den iki yıldız voleybolcu". Voleybolun Sesi (in Turkish). 2014-03-11. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  4. "2014–2015 Bayanlar Ligi – 19 Ebrar Karakurt" (in Turkish). Türkiye Voleybol Federasyonu. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  5. "Dünya Şampiyonu Ebrar Karakurt 1.Lig'de forma giyecek". Voleybolun Sesi (in Turkish). 2017-09-26. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  6. "Ebrar Karakurt – The Turkish Promise". Volleyball Movies. 2018-02-22. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  7. "VakıfBank A Takımı'na altyapıdan 3 yeni oyuncu". Voleybol Plus (in Turkish). 2018-06-22. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  8. "Turkey, Bulgaria and Italy take the lead in Pool I". CEV. 2017-04-01. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  9. "Karakurt: "Maçı Aldığımız Yanlışına Düştük, Unutmamamız Gereken Bir Ders"". Milliyet (in Turkish). 2017-08-26. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  10. "U18 Milliler Dünya 4., Ebrar Rüya takımda". Voleybol Aktuel (in Turkish). 2017-08-28. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  11. "U23 Kadın Voleybol Milli Takımı 2017 Dünya 23 Yaş Altı Kadınlar Voleybol Şampiyonası'nı kazandı". Habertürk (in Turkish). 2017-09-25. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
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