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| Nationality | Turkish | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1995 (age 30–31) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Judoka | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 78 kg (172 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Turkey | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Judo | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | Deaf | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | -78 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | 1922 Salihli GSK | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Yadigar Talayhan (born 1995) is a Turkish female judoka who competes in the -78 kg division.
Talayhan started performing judo in 2018 with the encouragement of her national deaf wrestler spouse. [1] [2]
She is a member of 1922 Salihli GSK. [1] [3]
She competed in the -78 kg event at the Deaflympics of 2021 in Caxias do Sul, Brazil, which was held in 2022, [4] [1] [2] and 2025 in Tokyo, Japan. [4] In the -78 kg event, she won a bronze medal at the 2021 Deaflympic, and again a bronze medal in her division's event and another bronze medal in the team event at the 2025 Deaflympics, [4] [5] [1] [6] with her teammates Buse Tıraş, Elif Gülşen, Esma Gökülü, Bircan Altuntaş and Ayşe Beril Boyacı. [7]
Born in 1995, [4] Yadigar Talayhan is a native of Söke in Manisa, western Turkey. [1] She lives in Salihli. [3]
On 30 June 2012, she married to Önder Talayhan, a 2009 Summer Deaflympics bronze-medalist deaf wrestler from Söke. [8] She is a mother of three children. [2]
