Çiğdem Dede (born 27 February 1980, in

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, Turkey) is a Turkish

powerlifter Powerlifting is a competitive strength sport that consists of three attempts at maximal weight on three lifts: squat, bench press, and deadlift. As in the sport of Olympic weightlifting, it involves the athlete attempting a maximal weight singl ...

competing in the −44 kg division. She won the silver medal at the

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. She is a dwarf athlete of Ankara Guven Spor, where she is coached by Mustafa Doğan. She became paralyzed at the age of six due to wrong injection given to her leg.

Career history

Çiğdem Dede is high school graduate. She began powerlifting by chance, encouraged by a weightlifting coach in 2009, and then received the support of her family. That year, Dede ranked fourth at the IPC World Championship. She became national champion in 2010 and 2011. At the 2011 Fazaa International Powerlifting Tournament in

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, she took the gold medal lifting 100.0 kg.

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* * 1980 births Living people Turkish female powerlifters Paralympic powerlifters for Turkey Paralympic medalists in powerlifting Paralympic silver medalists for Turkey Powerlifters at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Sportspeople with dwarfism Sportspeople from Gaziantep 21st-century Turkish sportswomen {{Turkey-weightlifting-bio-stub