Çağla Baş Atakal (born Çağla Baş on 26 July 1992), also known as Çağla Atakal, is a Turkish female paralympic shooter competing in the air rifle events. She qualified to represent Turkey at the

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. Baş also plays on a wheelchair basketball team at a national level.

Early life

Çağla Baş was born in Altınordu district of

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, Turkey on 26 July 1992. She lives in her hometown. She married Erdem Atakal in December 2014 after being together for 7 years. She drew the attention of her future husband during a wheelchair basketball game she was playing in

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Sporting career

Baş began her sporting career at eleven of age by playing basketball. She is a member of the

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team of Altınordu Belediyespor in her hometown. Encouraged by her mother, she entered also

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in 2008. She competes in the R2 40 shots 10m air rifle standing SH1 women's, R3 10m 60 shots air rifle prone SH1 mixed and FTR1 10m falling targets rifle SH1 mixed events. The SH1 classification is for Paralympic athletes, who can shoot without the need of a shooting stand to support the firearm. Her coach is Tolga Korkusuz. Baş became bronze medalist seven years in a row at national competitions. Representing her country, she took part at the IPC Shooting World Championships

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held in

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, Croatia and

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, Germany, at the IPC Shooting World Cup 2013 in

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, Poland, 2015 in

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, Turkey, 2016 in

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, Thailand, and at the 2013 IPC Shooting European Championships in

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, Spain. She won a silver medal in the R2 SH1 event, and another silver medal in the FTR1 SH1 mixed event at the 2013 IPC Shooting World Cup in Poland, a bronze medal in the R3 SH1 mixed event at the 2015 World Cup in Turkey, a silver medal in the R2 SH1 event at the 2014 IPC Shooting World Championships. The success in 2014 brought her a quota place at the

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. This will be her first participation at the Paralympics.

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