Gülşah Düzgün
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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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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]
Private life
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
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
International
- 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
- ^ "Gulsah Duzgun". Rio 2016 Paralympics. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 4 October 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
- ^ 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). 21 July 2015. Archived from the original on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
- ^ Çetinbaş, İlknur (8 September 2016). "Türkiye'nin Rio kadrosu yıldızlarla dolu". Anadolu Agency (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 10 September 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
- ^ a b "Rio'da Türkiye Goalball Kadın Milli Takımı, altın madalya kazandı". NTV (in Turkish). 17 September 2016. Archived from the original on 17 September 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
- ^ "Malmö Lady- and Men InterCuo 29/5-1/6 2014 Tesults" (PDF). Goalball Sport. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
External links
- Gülşah Düzgün at the International Paralympic Committee
- Gülşah Düzgün at the Türkiye Milli Paralimpik Komitesi (in Turkish)