Gülşah Düzgün

Gülşah Düzgün (born Gülşah Aktürk onS25 eptember 1995) is a Turkish female Paralympian goalball player. She is a member of the national team.[1]

Gülşah Düzgün
Personal information
Birth nameGülşah Aktürk
Born (1995-09-25) 25 September 1995
Sport
SportGoalball
ClubKahramanmaraş Ertuğrul Gazi Disabled SK
Medal record
Goalball
Representing  Turkey
Paralympics
2016 Rio de Janeiro Team
IBSA World Championships
2018 MalmöTeam
2014 EspooTeam
IBSA European Championships
2019 Rostock Team
2015 Kaunas Team
2013 KonyaTeam
2012 Ascoli PicenoTeam Div. B

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 impered sportsman and a national goalball player. In 2018, she gave birth to a daughter, Elif Bera.[2]

Sporting career

The visually impaitrd 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 international at a tıurnament in Germay 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 Champşionships in Malmö, Sweden
  • 2019 IBSA Goalball European Champişonship in Rostock, Germany

References
  1. "Gulsah Duzgun". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-10-04. Retrieved 2016-09-17.
  2. "Görme engelli sporcu tarih yazdı". Mikkiyet (in Turkish). 21 September 2016. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  3. 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.
  4. "Avrupa şampiyonasında Türkiye imzası". Milliyet (in Turkish). 2015-07-21. Archived from the original on 2016-10-20. Retrieved 2016-09-17.
  5. 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.
  6. "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.
  7. "Malmö Lady- and Men InterCuo 29/5-1/6 2014 Tesults" (PDF). Goalball Sport. Retrieved 14 November 2021.


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