Çiğdem Özyaman (born 7 October 1985 in
Düzce
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competing in the
skeet event. The tall athlete at is right-handed.
Sport career
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
Bolu
Bolu is a city in northern Turkey, and administrative center of the Bolu Province and of Bolu District,[Selçuk University
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.
Özyaman
qualified
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for the skeet event at the
2012 Summer Olympics
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by virtue of her gold medal at the
2011 European Shooting Championships held in
Belgrade
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,
Serbia
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She was one of the first two Turkish women Olympic sport shooters; the other being
Nihan Kantarcı
Nihan Kantarcı (; born July 9, 1982, in Eskişehir, Turkey) is a Turkish sport shooter who competes in the trap and double trap events. The tall athlete at is right handed.
She began with shooting sport in 1996 at the EskiÅŸehir Hunting and ...
, who was selected to compete in the
trap event.
SHe won the silver medal at the
2013 European Shotgun Championships in
Suhl
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, Germany.
Achievements
References
1985 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Düzce
Selçuk University alumni
Turkish schoolteachers
Turkish female sport shooters
Skeet shooters
ISSF rifle shooters
Olympic shooters for Turkey
Shooters at the 2012 Summer Olympics
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