SAYIT Kayra

Date of Birth: 13 Feb 1988

Age: 33

Gender: Female

Place of birth: FORT-DE-FRANCE

Birth Country:

France

Place of residence : ISTANBUL

Residence Country:

Turkey

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Judo	Women +78 kg	5

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Women +78 kg Elimination Round of 32 #10 TUR SAYIT KSAYIT Kayra 1 WAZ CMR MBALLA ATANGANA HVMBALLA ATANGANA Hortence Vanessa 0s1	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Women +78 kg Elimination Round of 16 #19 TUR SAYIT KSAYIT Kayra 10 IPP UKR KALANINA YKALANINA Yelyzaveta 0	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Women +78 kg Quarterfinal #23 JPN SONE ASONE Akira 10 IPP TUR SAYIT KSAYIT Kayra 0s1	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Women +78 kg Repechage contest #25 KOR HAN MHAN Mijin 0 TUR SAYIT KSAYIT Kayra 10 IPP	Finished
Followed by	Nippon Budokan Judo Mat 1	Women +78 kg Contest for Bronze Medal B #33 TUR SAYIT KSAYIT Kayra 0 FRA DICKO RDICKO Romane 10 IPP	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	+78 kg
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	5

World Championships

Year	Location	+78 kg	Team X
2019	Tokyo, JPN	3	-
2018	Baku, AZE	3	17
2017	Budapest, HUN	5	17
2015	Astana, KAZ	9	-

European Championships

Year	Location	+78 kg	Team
2021	Lisbon, POR	1	-
2020	Prague, CZE	7	-
2019	Minsk, BLR	9	9
2018	Tel Aviv, ISR	7	-
2017	Warsaw, POL	5	7

World Masters

Year	Location	+78 kg
2021	Doha, QAT	3
2019	Qingdao, CHN	17
2018	Guangzhou, CHN	9

Grand Slam - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	5th	7th	9th	16th	17th	30th-33rd
2020	+78 kg	1x	-	-	-	1x	-	-	-	-
2019	+78 kg	-	-	-	-	-	1x	-	1x	-
2018	+78 kg	-	-	-	-	-	1x	-	-	-
2017	+78 kg	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Grand Prix - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	5th	7th	8th	9th	10th	15th-33rd
2020	+78 kg	-	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019	+78 kg	1x	-	1x	1x	-	-	-	-	-
2018	+78 kg	-	-	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-
2017	+78 kg	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

World Cup - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	4rd	5th	7th	8th	9th	10th	15th-33rd
2019	+78 kg	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Grand Slam, Grand Prix & World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2020	+78 kg	Grand Slam	Budapest, HUN
1	2019	+78 kg	World Cup	Perth, WA, AUS
1	2019	+78 kg	Grand Prix	Marrakech, MAR
1	2017	+78 kg	Grand Prix	Antalya, TUR
2	2017	+78 kg	Grand Slam	Baku, AZE
3	2020	+78 kg	Grand Prix	Tel Aviv, ISR
3	2019	+78 kg	Grand Prix	Antalya, TUR
5	2019	+78 kg	Grand Prix	Zagreb, CRO
5	2018	+78 kg	Grand Prix	Zagreb, CRO
7	2020	+78 kg	Grand Slam	Paris, FRA

Previous names:

Ketty Mathe; Kayra Almira Said

Occupation:

Languages spoken:

English, French, Turkish

Ego Spor Kulubu [TUR] / Ordu Buyuksehir Belediyesi Spor Kulubu [TUR]

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (milliyet.com.tr, 28 Oct 2020)

General Interest

General
FRANCE TO TURKEY
She was born in Martinique and originally competed for France. She began representing Turkey in 2015. (judoinside.com, 15 May 2016; lespritdejudo.com, 15 Apr 2015)

SANCTIONS
In 2008, while she competed under the name Ketty Mathe, she was suspended for two months by the French Judo Federation [FFJ] after testing positive for cannabis, She then tested positive for cannabis for a second time and was suspended by the FFJ until October 2010. After missing out on selection for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, and also struggling with injury, she did not compete for almost two years before returning in 2014 fighting for Turkish club team Galatasaray under her new name of Kayra Sayit. (lespritdujudo.com, 15 Apr 2015)

Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/kayra.sayit
Facebook Profile 2: https://www.facebook.com/ketty.mathe
https://instagram.com/kayrasayit/

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event
IPP:: Ippon
WAZ:: Waza-Ari

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