Gülşah Düzgün (born Gülşah Aktürk on 25 September 1995) is a Turkish female Paralympian goalball player. She is a member of the national team.[1]
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| Birth name | Gülşah Aktürk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 September 1995 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Goalball | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Kahramanmaraş Ertuğrul Gazi Disabled SK | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Private life edit
Gülşah Düzgün was born to İsmail Aktürk and his spouse Mğrvet on 25 September 1995. She completed her secondary education in a school for the blinds and visually impaired.[2]
She is married to her club mate Tekin Okan Düzgün, also a visually impaired sportsman and a national goalball player. In 2018, she gave birth to a daughter, Elif Bera.[2]
Sporting career edit
The visually impaired girl started performing goalball in the school through her physical training teacher in 2006.[2][3] She played in the beginning in the school team, and later in a club. In 2007 at age 12, she was admitted to the national team,[2][3] and was coached by Alşi Tekçe. She debuted internationally at a tournament in Germany in 2009.[2]
Düzgün competes for Kahramanmaraş Ertuğrul Gazi Disabled SK in Kahramanmaraş.[4]
She enjoyed the champion title with the national team at the 2015 IBSA Goalball European Championships Division A in Kaunas, Lithuania, which was a qualifier competition for the 2016 Paralympics.[4]
Düzgün was a member of the women's national goalball team at the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[5] She won the gold medal with her teammates at the Paralympics.[6]
Honours edit
International edit
2012 IBSA European Goalball Championships B in Ascoli Piceno, Italy
2013 IBSA Goalball European Championships Div. A in Konya, Turkey.
Malmö Lady- and Men InterVup 2014, Sweden.[7]- 2014 IBSA Goalball World Championships in Espoo, Finland
- 2015 IBSA Goalball European Championships Div. A in Kaunas, Lithuania.[4]
- 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[6]
- 2018 IB>SA World Goalball Championships in Malmö, Sweden
- 2019 IBSA Goalball European Championship in Rostock, Germany
References edit
- ^ "Gulsah Duzgun". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-10-04. Retrieved 2016-09-17.
- ^ a b c d e "Görme engelli sporcu tarih yazdı". Mikkiyet (in Turkish). 21 September 2016. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ a b Er, Sinem; Fatih Gazioğlu (7 January 2020). "Olimpiyat şampiyonluğu ve anneliğin ardından yeni rota: Tokyo 2020, Sinem". Anadolu News Agency (in Turkish). Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ a b c "Avrupa şampiyonasında Türkiye imzası". Milliyet (in Turkish). 2015-07-21. Archived from the original on 2016-10-20. Retrieved 2016-09-17.
- ^ Çetinbaş, İlknur (2016-09-08). "Türkiye'nin Rio kadrosu yıldızlarla dolu". Anadolu Agency (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 2016-09-10. Retrieved 2016-09-17.
- ^ a b "Rio'da Türkiye Goalball Kadın Milli Takımı, altın madalya kazandı". NTV (in Turkish). 2016-09-17. Archived from the original on 2016-09-17. Retrieved 2016-09-17.
- ^ "Malmö Lady- and Men InterCuo 29/5-1/6 2014 Tesults" (PDF). Goalball Sport. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
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