Ali Can Özcan (born 29 June 2001) is a Turkish

paralympic The Paralympic Games or Paralympics is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Kore ...

taekwondo Taekwondo (; ; ) is a Korean martial art and combat sport involving primarily kicking techniques and punching. "Taekwondo" can be translated as ''tae'' ("strike with foot"), ''kwon'' ("strike with hand"), and ''do'' ("the art or way"). In ad ...

practitioner.

Career

He competed at the

2022 European Taekwondo Championships The 2022 European Taekwondo Championships, the 25th edition of the European Taekwondo Championships, was held in Manchester, United Kingdom at the Manchester Regional Arena from 19 to 22 May 2022. Medal table Medal summary Men Women Pa ...

, winning the

gold medal A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture. Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have b ...

in the K44 men's -58 kg event.https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024-paralympics/athlete/ali-can-ozcan_2004030 He won a silver medal for Turkey at the

2024 Summer Paralympics The 2024 Summer Paralympics (), also known as the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games (), and branded as Paris 2024, were the 17th Summer Paralympic Games, an international Multi-sport event, multi-sport parasports event governed by the International P ...

, losing to

Asaf Yasur Asaf Yasur (; born 17 April 2002) is an Israeli Paralympic champion and world champion para taekwondo athlete. He was world champion in both 2021 and 2023. He represented Israel at the 2024 Paris Paralympics, and won the gold medal in the Men' ...

of Israel 19-12 in the final of the men’s -58kg weight class."Israeli Paralympics athlete wins gold medal in taekwondo,"
''The Jewish Chronicle''.

References

External links

Olympics/Paralympics profile
2001 births Living people Turkish male taekwondo practitioners Taekwondo practitioners at the 2024 Summer Paralympics Paralympic taekwondo practitioners for Turkey 21st-century Turkish sportsmen Medalists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics Paralympic silver medalists for Turkey {{Turkey-Paralympic-medalist-stub