Çiğdem Özyaman (born 1985 in

Düzce Düzce is the capital city of Düzce Province, the eighty-first Province in Turkey. The population is 367,087 and in 2009 was 125,240, an increase from 61,878 in 1990. Overview Düzce is the eighty-first and the newest province of Turkey ...

, Turkey) is a Turkish

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competing in the

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event. The tall athlete at is right-handed. She began sport shooting at the age of 14 with her father's encouragement. She serves as a teacher of physical education in a primary school at

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after her graduation from

Selçuk University Selçuk University ( tr, Selçuk Üniversitesi) is a state-owned higher educational institution which was founded 1975 in Konya, Turkey. It is one of the largest universities in Turkey with a student body of 63,000 of which 2,200 are foreign stu ...

. Çiğdem Özyaman qualified to participate in the skeet event at the 2012 Summer Olympics with her gold medal achieved at the 2011 European Shooting Championships held in Belgrade,

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. She was one of the first two Turkish female Olympic sport shooters; the other being Nihan Kantarcı, who was selected to compete in the

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event.

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1985 births People from Düzce Selçuk University alumni Turkish female sport shooters Skeet shooters ISSF rifle shooters Living people Olympic shooters of Turkey Shooters at the 2012 Summer Olympics {{Turkey-sportshooting-bio-stub