Gülşah Düzgün

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Gülşah Düzgün
Personal information
Birth nameGülşah Aktürk
Born (1995-09-25) 25 September 1995 (age 29)
Sport
SportGoalball
ClubKahramanmaraş Ertuğrul Gazi Disabled SK
Medal record
Goalball
Representing File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey
Paralympics
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team
IBSA World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2018 Malmö Team
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Espoo Team
IBSA European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Rostock Team
Gold medal – first place 2015 Kaunas Team
Silver medal – second place 2013 Konya Team
Gold medal – first place 2012 Ascoli Piceno Team Div. B

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

References

  1. ↑ "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.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Görme engelli sporcu tarih yazdı". Mikkiyet (in Türkçe). 21 September 2016. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Er, Sinem; Fatih Gazioğlu (7 January 2020). "Olimpiyat şampiyonluğu ve anneliğin ardından yeni rota: Tokyo 2020, Sinem". Anadolu News Agency (in Türkçe). Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Avrupa şampiyonasında Türkiye imzası". Milliyet (in Turkish). 21 July 2015. Archived from the original on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2016.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  5. ↑ 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.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "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.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  7. ↑ "Malmö Lady- and Men InterCuo 29/5-1/6 2014 Tesults" (PDF). Goalball Sport. Retrieved 14 November 2021.

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