Rıdvan Baygut

Rıdvan Baygut (born 3 March 1985) is a Turkish taekwondo athlete. He won gold medals at the 2008 and 2010 European Taekwondo Championships.

Career Baygut began practicing taekwondo at a young age and has been a member of Tuzla Belediyespor Club in Istanbul since 1997. He graduated from Sakarya University with a degree in physical education and sports.

Baygut won the gold medal at the 2008 European Taekwondo Championships in Rome in the men's lightweight (–72 kg) category. He became European champion again at the 2010 European Taekwondo Championships in St. Petersburg, Russia (–74 kg). At the 2012 European Taekwondo Championships in Manchester, he won the silver medal in the same division.

He also won a bronze medal at the 2011 World Taekwondo Championships held in Gyeongju, South Korea. In 2009, he represented Turkey at the Summer Universiade in Belgrade, Serbia.

Throughout his career, Baygut has achieved multiple Turkish national championships and numerous podium finishes at international competitions.