Ecem Çavdar Taşın (born 20 January 1991) is a Turkish female

visually impaired Visual or vision impairment (VI or VIP) is the partial or total inability of visual perception. In the absence of treatment such as corrective eyewear, assistive devices, and medical treatment, visual impairment may cause the individual difficul ...

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( disability class B2) competing in the −48 kg division. She won the bronze medal at the

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and

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Sport career

Taşın studied

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Trakya University Trakya University () is a public university in Edirne, Turkey. It was established on July 20, 1982. The university is located in Edirne, in Eastern Thrace. Trakya University is a regional university with branches and campuses spread over the T ...

Edirne Edirne (; ), historically known as Orestias, Adrianople, is a city in Turkey, in the northwestern part of the Edirne Province, province of Edirne in Eastern Thrace. Situated from the Greek and from the Bulgarian borders, Edirne was the second c ...

, Turkey. She started her sports career with

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. After losing her eyesight at the age of 18, she stopped practicing athletics and later began to engage in

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. She is a member of the Edirne Judo Olimpik Spor Kulübü and she is coached by Şengül Demiral.

2010's

In 2011, she participated at the IBSA World Games held in

Antalya Antalya is the fifth-most populous city in Turkey and the capital of Antalya Province. Recognized as the "capital of tourism" in Turkey and a pivotal part of the Turkish Riviera, Antalya sits on Anatolia's southwest coast, flanked by the Tau ...

, Turkey and finished in 7th place. Taşın captured a bronze medal at the 2013

IBSA European Judo Championships The IBSA European Judo Championships is an event organized by the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA). It is a paralympic judo competition, that is judo for visually impaired athletes. Organised biennially, the competition is not run du ...

held in

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, Hungary. She competed at the 2014 IBSA World Championships in

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, USA and took 7th place. In February 2015, Taşın competed at the IBSA World Cup held in Eger, Hungary and took 7th place. In May, she competed at the IBSA World Games in

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, South Korea and took 5th place. In October, she took a bronze medal in the extra-lightweight (48 kg) event at the 2015 IBSA European Judo Championships in

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, Portugal, and so obtained a quota spot for the

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. At the

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, she won a bronze medal. In January 2017, she competed at the IBSA World Cup in

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and secured the bronze medal. In August of the same year, she won the silver medal at the IBSA European Championships held in

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, England. In 2018, Taşın secured 3rd place at the IBSA World Cup held in Antalya in April and again at the same event held in Atyrau in September. In November of the same year, she took 5th place at the IBSA World Championships in Odivelas, Portugal. At the 2019 IBSA European Judo Championships in

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, Italy, she became bronze medalist. In May 2019, she competed at the IBSA Judo Grand Prix Baku and took the 5th place. In 2021, she competed at the same event and won the gold medal.

2020's

Taşın participated at the

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held in

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, Japan and she finished in the 7th place. In the Paralympics, she got injured, tearing her cruciate ligaments. In 2022, she took the silver medal at the IBSA Judo World Championship in

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, Azerbaijan. In January 2023, Taşın won the silver medal at the IBSA Grand Prix in

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, Portugal. In August, she won the silver medal at the

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held in

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, Netherlands and another silver medal at the IBSA World Championships held in

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, England. She competed in the J1 event at the

held in

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, France and secured the bronze medal.

Personal life

Ecem Çavdar Taşın was born on January 20, 1991. She had no visual impairment until the age of 18, but after that, she began to lose her eyesight and currently has 95% vision loss.

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tasin, Ecem 1991 births Living people Turkish female judoka Turkish blind people Visually impaired-category Paralympic competitors Paralympic judoka for Turkey Paralympic bronze medalists for Turkey Paralympic medalists in judo Judoka at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Judoka at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Judoka at the 2024 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the European Para Championships Trakya University alumni Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Turkish sportswomen