{{Short description|Turkish karateka (born 1977)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox martial artist | name = Okay Arpa | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1977|07|15}} | birth_place = Kayseri, Turkey | nationality = Turkish | weight_class = +84 kg | style = Karate – Kumite | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport |Men's karate}} {{Medal|Country| {{TUR}} }} {{MedalCompetition|World Championships}} {{MedalGold|2008 Tokyo|Team kumite}} {{MedalCompetition|European Championships}} {{MedalGold|2006 Zagreb|Team kumite}} {{MedalGold|2010 Athens|Team kumite}} {{MedalSilver|2000 Istanbul|Kumite +80 kg}} {{MedalSilver|2004 Moscow|Kumite open}} {{MedalBronze|1998 Belgrade|Kumite +80 kg}} {{MedalBronze|2008 Tallinn|Kumite +80 kg}} {{MedalBronze|2009 Zagreb|Kumite +84 kg}} {{MedalBronze|2004 Moscow|Team kumite}} {{MedalCompetition|Mediterranean Games}} {{MedalBronze|2001 Tunis|Kumite open}} }}
'''Okay Arpa''' (born 15 July 1977) is a Turkish karateka competing in the kumite +84 kg division.<ref name="kr">{{Cite web|url=http://www.karaterec.com/en/catalog.php?name=Arpa|title=Okay Arpa|publisher=Karate Records|access-date=21 May 2011}}</ref><ref name="wkf">{{Cite web|url=http://www.wkf.net/index.php/wkf-family/competitors.html|title=Okay Arpa|publisher=World Karate Federation|access-date=13 May 2013|archive-date=23 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130523192945/http://wkf.net/index.php/wkf-family/competitors.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> He has represented Turkey in multiple international events, achieving success in both individual and team kumite categories.
==Career== Arpa won his first major international medal in 1998, earning bronze in the men's +80 kg event at the 1998 European Karate Championships in Belgrade, Serbia.<ref name="kr"/> He claimed silver in the same weight class at the 2000 European Karate Championships held in Istanbul, Turkey.<ref name="kr"/> At the 2001 Mediterranean Games in Tunis, Tunisia, he secured a bronze medal in the open weight division.<ref name="wkf"/>
In 2004, Arpa took silver in the open category and bronze in the team kumite at the 2004 European Karate Championships in Moscow, Russia.<ref name="kr"/> He won gold in the team kumite at the 2006 European Karate Championships in Zagreb, Croatia.<ref name="wkf"/> In 2008, he earned a bronze medal in the +80 kg event at the 2008 European Karate Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, and became a world champion in team kumite at the 2008 World Karate Championships in Tokyo, Japan.<ref name="wkf"/>
Arpa added another bronze medal in the +84 kg category at the 2009 European Karate Championships in Zagreb,<ref name="kr"/> and won team kumite gold at the 2010 European Karate Championships in Athens, Greece.<ref name="wkf"/> In 2011, he helped Turkey win the European Regions Karate Championships in Ankara, Turkey.<ref name="wkf"/>
Outside of competition, Arpa works as a physical education teacher at a primary school in Üsküdar, Istanbul.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://uskudar34.com/haber/5347-egitim-okay-arpa-dunya-karate-sampiyonu-oldu.html|title=Okay Arpa Dünya Karate Şampiyonu Oldu|publisher=Üsküdar 34|date=4 April 2012|language=tr|access-date=13 May 2013}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Arpa, Okay}} Category:1977 births Category:Sportspeople from Kayseri Category:Living people Category:Turkish male karateka Category:Martial artists from Istanbul Category:Turkish schoolteachers Category:Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Turkey Category:Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games Category:Mediterranean Games medalists in karate Category:21st-century Turkish sportsmen