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Hülya Şahin, aka Julia "Sunshine" Sahin, (born February 23, 1974 in Siegen, Germany) is a Turkish professional female boxer with German passport. She is a former world champion in kick boxing and was world champion in amateur boxing as well. As of September 1, 2007, she is the undefeated WIBF world junior flyweight (48 kg) champion. The 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) tall sportswoman lives in Cologne, Germany. Hülya is an educated locksmith, working currently for the Cologne Transit Company (KVB) in the maintenance of ticket machines in trams. At her age of 19, she began kick boxing inspired by her brother, who is a kick boxer. Hülya became quickly world champion as an amateur and later once again world champion, this time as a professional. However, she had to quit kick boxing due to a serious injury at her leg. Her mother raised heavy objections soon after she started to perform boxing, and she tried hard to convince her parents. They accepted her choice as she began to gain success again by earning titles like four times the Turkish champion, twice the European champion and finally the world champion〔(Interview at Turkish Sports on August 2, 2005 ) 〕 Since 2004, she is boxing professionally and is the only female member of the boxing sports club Universum Box-Promotion in Hamburg.〔(SporX ) 〕 She is coached by Michael Timm. ==Kick boxing== In 1995, only two years after she began performing kickboxing, Hülya became world champion in flyweight (52 kg) division at the full contact karate championships held in Kiev, Ukraine. She earned the professional world champion title in the same division 1998 in Leverkusen, Germany.〔(Kickboxschule Mack ) 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hülya Şahin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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