Özgür Gürbulak (born 30 April 1981) is a Turkish

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player and

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. He is a

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competing for Galatasaray Wheelchair Basketball, and is part of Turkey men's national wheelchair basketball team. Özgür played in the national team, which qualified to the

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Career history

In the beginning of the 2008 season, Özgür Gürbulak transferred from Saran Anadolu team to Galatasaray, which became European champion. Gürbulak won the silver medal with the national team at the 2009 IWBF European Championship held in

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, Turkey, and became ''"Top Scorer"'' of the tournament. He was awarded also ''"All-Star Team"'' member. He played in the

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, which ranked eight at the

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held in

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. He was the second top scorer of the championship with 23.13 average PPG following Reo Fujimoto (4.5) from

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. At the

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, the national team, he was part of, ranked 7th. He won the silver medal again at the 2013 IWBF Men's European Championship held on 26 June – 8 July in

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. He was also named to the ''"All-Star Team Men"''.

Achievements

Awards

;Individual * '' 2009 IWBF European Championship -"Top Scorer"'' * '' 2009 IWBF European Championship -"All-Star Team"'' * '' 2013 IWBF Men's European Championship -"All-Star Team"'' * '' 2015 IWBF Men's European Championship -"All-Star Team"'' * '' 2017 IWBF Men's European Championship -"All-Star Team"''

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* * 1981 births Living people Basketball players from İzmir Turkish men's wheelchair basketball players Paralympic wheelchair basketball players for Turkey Wheelchair basketball players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair basketball players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair basketball players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Forwards (basketball) Galatasaray S.K. (wheelchair basketball) players 21st-century Turkish sportsmen {{Turkey-basketball-bio-stub