Fatma Gül Güler
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| Born | 12 February 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 51 kg (112 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Goalball | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Kahramanmaraş Akçakoyunlu İSK | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Gültekin Karasu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fatma Gül Güler (born 12 February 2004) is a Turkish Paralympian goalball player having visual impairment. She is part of the two-time Paralympics as well as world and European champion Turkish team.
Sport career
Güler started playing goalball in 2012 under the guidance of her primary school teacher.[1] She played in the school team during her education in the middle school for visual impaired. Her school team became runner-up in the Turkish Girls' Goalball Championship in 2018.[2] She plays for Kahramanmaraş Akçakoyunlu İdmanyurdu Sports Club in her hometown, which successfully compete in the Turkish Women's Goalball First League.[1] She is coached by Gültekin Karasu.[3][4] She is 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) tall at 51 kg (112 lb).[3] In 2021, she was admitted to the national goalball team. Güler is one of the top goalscorers of Turkey along her national teammate Sevda Altunoluk.[1] At the delayed 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, she and her teammates won the gold medal.[4][5] Güler was a member of the national team, which won the silver medal at the 2021 IBSA Goalball European Championships in Samsun, Turkey.[6] She claimed the gold medal with her teammates at the 2022 Goalball World Championships in Matosinhos, Portugal.[7] In 2023, she took the gold medal at the IBSA Goalball European Championships in Podgorica, Montenegro.[8] She was part of the national team, which won the gold medal defeating Israel in the final of the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France.[9]
Personal life
Fatma Gül Güler was born in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey on 12 February 2004.[3] She is congenitally visually impaired.[1] After completing her secondary education in a school for visual impaired, she started studying sport coaching in the Faculty of Sports science at the Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University in Karaman.[2][1]
Honours
Domestic
- 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2018 Turkish Girls' Goalball Championship
International
- 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France
- 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2023 IBSA Goalball European Championship in Podgorica, Montenegro
- 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2022 Goalball World Championships in Matosinhos, Portugal
- 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2021 IBSA Goalball European Championship in Samsun, Turkey
- 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Tükelay, Canan (17 March 2024). "Golbol Kadın Milli Takımı oyuncusu Fatmagül Güler başarısını disiplinli çalışmaya borçlu". Anadolu News Agency (in Türkçe). Retrieved 8 September 2024.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Türkiye Kızlar Yıldız Goalball Şampiyonasında 2.lik Aldık" (in Türkçe). T.c. Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı - Kahramanmaraş/ OnikiŞubat - Ertuğrulgazi Görme Engelliler Ortaokulu. 3 May 2018. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Fatma Gül Güler" (in Türkçe). Türkiye Milli Paralimpik Komitesi. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Golbol oyuncusu Fatma: Çok çalıştık ve altın madalyamıza ulaştık". Sözcü (in Türkçe). 7 September 2021. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
- ↑ "Guler, Fatma Gul". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 25 August 2021. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
- ↑ Gün, İlyas (12 November 2021). "Golbol Avrupa Şampiyonası'nda Türkiye gümüş madalya kazand". Anadolu News Agency (in Türkçe). Retrieved 8 September 2024.
- ↑ Tiryaki, Erkan (12 December 2022). "Golbol Kadın Milli Takımı dünya şampiyonu oldu". Anadolu News Agency (in Türkçe). Retrieved 8 September 2024.
- ↑ "Avrupa Goalball Şampiyonasında Takımlarimizdan 1 Altın, 1 Bronz Madalya" (in Türkçe). Türkiye Milli Paralimpik Komitesi. 16 December 2023. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
- ↑ "Golbol Kadın Milli Takımı Paris 2024 Paralimpik Oyunları'nda İsrail'i yenerek altın madalya kazandı". Euronews (in Türkçe). 6 September 2024. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
External links
- Fatma Gul Guler at the International Paralympic Committee
- Fatmagül Güler at the Türkiye Milli Paralimpik Komitesi (in Turkish)
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- 2004 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Kahramanmaraş
- Turkish goalball players
- 21st-century Turkish sportswomen
- Female goalball players
- Goalball players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Goalball players at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic gold medalists for Turkey
- Paralympic medalists in goalball
- Paralympic goalball players for Turkey