Büşra Nur Tırıklı (born 7 December 1994) is a Turkish

Paralympian The Paralympic Games or Paralympics is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Kore ...

athlete An athlete is most commonly a person who competes in one or more sports involving physical strength, speed, power, or endurance. Sometimes, the word "athlete" is used to refer specifically to sport of athletics competitors, i.e. including track ...

competing in the F11 disability class of

discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field sport in which the participant athlete throws an oblate spheroid weight (object), weight called a discus in an attempt to mark a further distance than other competitors. It is a ...

event. She is a member of

Gaziantep Gaziantep, historically Aintab and still informally called Antep, is a major city in south-central Turkey. It is the capital of the Gaziantep Province, in the westernmost part of Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Region and partially in the Medi ...

BB Disabled SK. She won the silver medal in the discus throw F11/12 event at the

2016 IPC Athletics European Championships The 2016 IPC Athletics European Championships was a track and field competition for athletes with a disability open to International Paralympic Committee (IPC) affiliated countries within Europe, plus Israel. It was held in Grosseto, Italy and ...

held in

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, Italy. She competed in the discus throw F11 at the 2016 Paralympics in

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, Brazil after receiving a special invitation. AT the

2021 World Para Athletics European Championships The 2021 World Para Athletics European Championships was a track and field competition for athletes with a disability open to International Paralympic Committee (IPC) affiliated countries within Europe and a refugee team with one athlete. This was ...

Bydgoszcz Bydgoszcz is a city in northern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Kuyavia. Straddling the confluence of the Vistula River and its bank (geography), left-bank tributary, the Brda (river), Brda, the strategic location of Byd ...

, Poland, she won the gold medal in the discus throw F11 event, and set a new championship record with .

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tirikli, Busra Nur 1994 births Living people Female competitors in athletics with disabilities Turkish blind people Visually impaired discus throwers Turkish female discus throwers Paralympic athletes for Turkey Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Sportspeople from Gaziantep 21st-century Turkish sportswomen Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Paralympics