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Sümeyye Özcan (Paralympian)

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Sümeyye Özcan
Sümeyye Özcan running with guide in the 1500m event at the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France.
Personal information
Born (1992-01-15) 15 January 1992 (age 32)
Malatya, Turkey
Sport
SportGoalball, para-athletics
Disability classB1
ClubKahramanmaraş Ertuğrul Gazi Disabled SK
Medal record
Women's goalball
Representing  Turkey
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team
IBSA World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Espoo Team
IBSA European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Kaunas Team
Gold medal – first place 2012 Ascoli Piceno Team Div. B

Sümeyye Özcan (born 15 January 1992) is a Turkish female middle distance runner and goalball player in the B1 class. She is a member of the national team.

Early years

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Sümeyye Özcan was born totally blind in Malatya, Turkey on 15 January 1992.[1][2] Her elder sister as well as her younger sibling is also blind. Because there was no proper facilities for schooling blind children in Malatya, the family moved to Kahramanmaraş in 2001.[3] She completed her education with the Ertuğrul Gazi School for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Kahramanmaraş.[4]

Sporting career

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Özcan began with goal playing in 2004, and with athletics in 2009. She competes in the 800m, 1500m and shot put events. She is a member of both the national goalball team and national para-athletics team.[4]

She competed for her school's team in Kahramanmaraş, and took part at the European Championships in 2009 and 2010 after internationally debuting in 2007. She represented her country at the 2011 and 2013 World Championships.[2]

Para-athletics

Özcan took part in the shotput F12 event at the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships held in Christchurch, New Zealand.

She competed in the 1500m T11 class event and the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, United Kingdom.[3] She ran with guide a personal best time of 5:10.68, and placed seventh.[5]

In 2013, she participated in the 1500m T12 class event at the IPC Athletics World Championships held in Lyon, France.[6]

Goalball

Özcan competes for Kahramanmaraş Ertuğrul Gazi Disabled SK in Kahramanmaraş.[7]

She played for the national team at the Malmö Ladies' and Men's InterCup tournaments in Sweden in 2014 and 2015 respectively. The team placed third in 2014 and second in 2015.[8][9] In 2015, she became top scorer of the tournament with 23 goals.[10]

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.[7]

Özcan was also a member of the women's national Goalball team at the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[11] Özcan won the gold medal with her teammates at the event.[12]

Honours

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Individual

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  • Top scorer - Malmö Ladies' and Men's InterCup 2015 (23 goals).[10]

International

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  • 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2012 IBSA European Goalball Championships B in Ascoli Piceno, Italy
  • 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Malmö Ladies' and Men's InterCup 2014, Sweden.[13]
  • 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2014 IBSA Goalball World Championships in Espoo, Finland
  • 1st place, gold medalist(s)2015 IBSA Goalball European Championships Div. A in Kaunas, Lithuania.[7]
  • 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Malmö Ladies' and Men's InterCup 2015, Sweden.[9]
  • 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[12]

References

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  1. ^ "Sumeyye Ozcan". Rio 2016 Paralympics. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 22 September 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Mili Atlet Sümeyye'nin Kırşehir Kampı Sona Erdi". Özgür Haber (in Turkish). 24 August 2012. Archived from the original on 15 August 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  3. ^ a b "Sümeyye Özcan Türkiye'yi Temsil Edecek". Yaşadıkça (in Turkish). 20 July 2012. Archived from the original on 16 July 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2016.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. ^ a b "Bir koltukta iki karpuz". Yeniçağ (in Turkish). 30 August 2010. Archived from the original on 15 August 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  5. ^ "Londra'da Sümeyye 7'inci, Cahit 8'inci oldu". Son Devir (in Turkish). 5 September 2012. Archived from the original on 16 September 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  6. ^ "Athletics - women's 1500m T12 final - 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships, Lyon". Paralympics. Archived from the original on 16 September 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  7. ^ a b c "Avrupa şampiyonasında Türkiye imzası". Milliyet (in Turkish). 21 July 2015. Archived from the original on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  8. ^ "USA and Turkey take goalball gold in Malmö". IBSA. 14 April 2015. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  9. ^ a b "Malmö Lady and Men InterCup 2015 results". IBSA. Archived from the original on 16 September 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  10. ^ a b "Turkish delight in goalball". Paralympics. 16 July 2015. Archived from the original on 16 September 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  11. ^ Çetinbaş, İlknur (8 September 2016). "Türkiye'nin Rio kadrosu yıldızlarla dolu". Anadolu Agency (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 10 September 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ "Malmö Lady- and Men InterCup 29/5-1/6 2014". IBSA. Archived from the original on 21 September 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
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