Nesrin Baş
Nesrin Baş is a Turkish freestyle wrestler competing in the 68 kg division. She is a member of Beşiktaş J.K.. She won the silver medal in the 72kg event at the 2025 World Wrestling Championships held in Zagreb, Croatia. She won the gold medal at the 2024 European Wrestling Championships.
Career
In 2021, Nesrin Baş won a bronze medal in the women's 68 kg event at the 2021 World Junior Wrestling Championships in Russia, behind gold medal winner Amit Elor of the United States and silver medal winner Elizaveta Petliakova of Russia.She competed in the 68 kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia. She won the gold medal in her event at the 2023 European U23 Wrestling Championships held in Bucharest, Romania. She won the gold medal in the women's 68kg event at the 2022 U23 World Wrestling Championships held in Pontevedra, Spain.
In 2023, she won one of the bronze medals in the women's freestyle 68 kg event at the 2023 European Wrestling Championships held in Zagreb, Croatia. Nesrin, who started the championship from the qualifying round, qualified for the repechage match after her opponent reached the final despite losing to Bulgarian Yuliana Yaneva. Meeting Hungarian Noemi Szabados in the repechage, Nesrin won the bronze medal match with a 4-0 victory. In the bronze medal competition, Nesrin Baş won the bronze medal after her Czech rival Adela Hanzlickova could not compete due to injury.
She won the gold medal at the 2024 European Wrestling Championships in Bucharest, Romania, by defeating Romanian Alexandra Anghel 5-1 in the women's freestyle 72 kg final. She had reached the final after defeating Belarusian Viktoryia Radzkova 7-0 in the quarterfinals and Polish Wiktoria Chołuj 2-1 in the semifinals. She competed at the 2024 World Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Istanbul, Turkey and she earned a quota place for Turkey for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. She competed in the women's 62kg event at the Olympics.
Nesrin Baş competed in the women's freestyle 72 kg event at the 2025 European Wrestling Championships. She defeated Sweden's Elvira Ersson by fall while leading 8–0 in the round of 16, Romania's Alexandra Anghel 2–1 in the quarterfinals, and Poland's Daniela Tkachuk 11–3 in the semifinals to reach the final. In the gold medal match, she lost to Ukraine's Alla Belinska and took the silver medal. At the 2025 European U23 Wrestling Championships held in Tirana, Albania, Baş competed in the women's freestyle 68 kg category. She defeated Italy’s Laura Godino by technical superiority in the quarterfinals, pinned neutral athlete Viktoryia Radzkova from Belarus while leading 6–0 in the semifinals, and won the final against Ukraine's Manola Skobelska with a score of 6–2 to claim the gold medal. At the 2025 World Wrestling Championships in Zagreb, Croatia, Nesrin Baş reached the final in the women’s 72 kg category and won the silver medal. In the quarterfinals, she defeated Slovakia’s Zsuzsanna Molnar 9–4, and in the semifinals she pinned Romania’s Alexandra Anghel while leading 3–0. In the final, she lost to Ukraine’s Alla Belinska, but nevertheless made history as the youngest Turkish female wrestler to reach a World Championships final.