İpar Özay Kurt (born 10 November 2003) is İparÖa Turkish volleyball player. She plays for Fenerbahçe as wing spiker with jersey number 16. She is tall at .

İpar Özay Kurt was born in Istanbul, Turkey on 10 November 2003.

İpar Özay Kurt

Club

After playing for the İlbank in Ankara, she joined the Istanbul-based club Fenerbahçe in 2017. Between 2015 and 2017, she enjoyed several local and national champion titles.

İpar Özay Kurt

International

Girls' U15/U16

Kurt was part of the girls' national youth team, which finished the U16 Balkan Championship held in Sofia, Bulgaria in 2017 at fourth place.

İpar Özay Kurt

Girls' U17/U18

She won the bronze medal with the national U17/U18 team the 2018 Girls' U17 European Championship in Sofia, Bulgaria. She was a member of the bronze-medalist women's national U18 team at the 2019 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival held in Baku, Azerbaijan. Kurt played for the national team at the 2019 FIVB Girls' U18 World Championship in Cairo, Egypt, which ranked 9th. As of 2020, she was 22 times part of the Turkish national youth and junior teams.

Women's U19/U20

She was named the "Most valuable player" of the 2020 Women's U19 European Championship in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzogovina, where the Turkey national U20 team became champion.

Honours

Individual

Most Valuable Player 2020 Women's U19 Volleyball European Championship

International

2018 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship – Third place

2019 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival – Third place

2020 Women's U19 Volleyball European Championship – Champion

References

Living people

2003 births

Volleyball players from Istanbul

Turkish women's volleyball players

Outside hitters

İller Bankası volleyballers

Fenerbahçe S.K. (women's volleyball) players

21st-century Turkish women