Ayşenur Sormaz (born 10 May 2000) ) is a Turkish

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er, who plays as centre back for the Italian club A.S.D. Ariosto Pallamano Ferrara in the Serie A1 and the Turkey national team.

Personal life

Ayşenur Sormaz was born in

Ardeşen Ardeşen (Laz language, Laz and Georgian language, Georgian: არტაშენი/Art'asheni or არდაშენი/Ardasheni; Armenian language, Armenian: Արտաշեն/Artashen) is a town in Rize Province in the Black Sea Region, Turkey ...

district of Rize Province, northeastern Turkey on 10 May 2000.

Club career

Sormaz is tall at . She plays in the left back, and sometimes in the center back position. She played in the

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(, TKHSL) for Muratpaşa Bld. SK (2018–2020) in

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, Ego Spor (2021) in

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and Anadolu Üniversitesi GSK (2022) in

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. She scored a total of 53 goals in 24 matches played. She was with Muratpaşa Bld. SK when her team became runners-up in the 2018–19 TKHSL season, and won the 2018–19 Turkish Cup () ), defeating the league champion Kastamonu Bld. GSK In January 2023, the Italian Serie A1-club A.S.D. Ariosto Pallamano Ferrara announced that they had signed a deal with her.

International career

Sormaz played in the 2017 European Handball Women's U-17 EHF Championship for non-Euro participants in

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, Lithuania, where she finished third with Turkey U-17. Two years later, she played in the same place at the U-19 tournament and came third again. Admitted to the Turkey national handball team, she took part in 2019 at the 2020 European Championship qualification, which was cancelled due to the

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. She played at the 2022 European Championship qualification. In 2022, at the 5th Islamic Solidarity Games in

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, Turkey, she was with the national team, which became champion. She is also a member of the Turkey national beach handball team. She participated at the

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, Argentina.

Honours

Club

; Turkish Women's Handball Super League : Muratpaşa Bld. SK :: ''Runners-up'' (1): 2018–19 ; Women's Handball Turkish Cup : Muratpaşa Bld. SK :: ''Winners'' (1): 2018–19

International

; Turkey women's national U-17 handball team : European Handball Women's U-17 EHF Championshipfor non-Euro participants :: ''Third places'' (1): 2017 ; Turkey women's national U-19 handball team : European Handball Women's U-19 EHF Championshipfor non-Euro participants :: ''Third places'' (1): 2019 ; Turkey women's national handball team : Islamic Solidarity Games :: ''Champions'' (1):

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sormaz, Aysenur 2000 births Living people People from Ardeşen Sportspeople from Rize Turkish female handball players Anadolu Üniversitesi GSK (women's handball) players Turkish beach handball players Beach handball players at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Handball players at the 2022 Mediterranean Games Muratpaşa Bld. SK (women's handball) players Turkey women's national handball players Islamic Solidarity Games medalists in handball Turkish expatriate handball players Turkish expatriate sportspeople in Italy Medalists at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games Islamic Solidarity Games gold medalists for Turkey