Esra Yıldız Kahraman (born 4 July 1997) is a Turkish amateur boxer who won a bronze medal in the lightweight divisions at the 2016 European Championships.

[1] In 2024, Yildiz, representing Turkey in the women's featherweight (57 kg) boxing competition at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, lost to Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan (Republic of China) with a score of 0:5 in the semifinals, securing a bronze medal.

[19] This gesture was likely related to a previous incident where Lin had been stripped of a bronze medal at a championship organized by the Russian-led International Boxing Association (IBA) due to alleged testing irregularities.

The controversy occurred during ongoing debates about gender eligibility in boxing though the IBA did not disclose the testing methodology, stating that the "specifics remain confidential".

[23] The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and its Paris Boxing Unit had previously criticized similar disqualifications as "sudden and arbitrary" and taken "without any due process".