Zeynep Çelik (born 7 April 1996) is a Turkish world and European champion Paralympic judoka with visual impairment.

Sport career

Çelik is tall at . She is a member of Kocaeli BB Kağıt SK and is coached by Ahmet Ömre Türe. She has a visual impairment of sport disability classification B3. Çelik won the bronze medal at the

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in Odivelas, Portugal. She became gold medalist at the

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in Walsall, United Kingdom, and at the 2018 IBSA Judo World Championships in Odivelas, Portugal. At the 2021 IBSA Judo World Grand Prix in

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, Azerbaijan, she suffered a fracture on her left wrist. She was cured for two and half months before she attended the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 57 kg event at the

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held in Tokyo, Japan. She took the gold medal at the 2022 IBSA Judo World Championships in

, Azerbaijan. In 2023, she won the gold medal at the IBSA International German Open Tournament in Heidelberg, Germany. She took the silver medal at the

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in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Personal life

Zeynep Çelik was born as a daughter to a family with fifteen children in Ağrı, eastern Turkey on 7 April 1996. She is disabled with a

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. She studies Sports Coaching in the Faculty of Sports Sicece at Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University in Karaman.

References

1996 births Living people Sportspeople from Ağrı Turkish disabled sportspeople Sportspeople with a vision impairment Parasports competitors Turkish female judoka 21st-century Turkish sportswomen Paralympic judoka for Turkey Paralympic bronze medalists for Turkey Visually impaired category Paralympic competitors Paralympic medalists in judo Judoka at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics {{Turkey-judo-bio-stub