Fatma Damla Altın (born 18 January 2002) is a Turkish
Paralympian
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athlete
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long jump
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,
pentathlon
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and
heptathlon
A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek ἑπτά (hepta, meaning "seven") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "competition"). A competitor in a hep ...
events. She owns many world and European champion titles in different para-athletics disciplines.
Sport career
Altın started performing athletics with the encouragement of her physical education teacher in the school. In 2018, her family moved to
Samsun
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, and she went under the coaching of Aytunç Göz. She was admitted to the national team following her success in the Turkish Intellectual Impairment Sport Athletics Championships in 2019.
She competes in the
intellectual impairment
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long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...
,
pentathlon
A pentathlon is a contest featuring five events. The name is derived from Greek language, Greek: combining the words ''pente'' (five) and -''athlon'' (competition) (). The first pentathlon was documented in Ancient Greece and was part of the Anci ...
and
heptathlon
A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek ἑπτά (hepta, meaning "seven") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "competition"). A competitor in a hep ...
events. She is a member of Samsun ÖY GSK, where she is coached by Aytunç Göz.
2019
Altın debuted internationally at the
World Para Athletics Junior Championships
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in 2019, and won the silver medal in the long jump T20 of U20 division with 5.02 m.
The same year, she claimed the gold medal in the
pentathlon
A pentathlon is a contest featuring five events. The name is derived from Greek language, Greek: combining the words ''pente'' (five) and -''athlon'' (competition) (). The first pentathlon was documented in Ancient Greece and was part of the Anci ...
event at the 9th INAS Open European Indoor Athletics Championships in
Istanbul
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, Turkey.
2020
She captured the gold medal in the pentathlon event at the 2020 INAS World Indoor Athletics Championships in
Toruń
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, Poland.
2021
At the 2021 Virtus European Indoor Athletics Championships in
Nantes
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, France, she won the gold medal in the pentatlon event.
She took the bronze medal in the
100 m hurdles
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with 19.58, the gold medal in the 400 m hurdles with 1:19.86, second place in the high junp with 1.35 m, fourth place in the long jump with 5.31 m, the gold medal in the
heptathlon
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with 2,147 points, the silver medal in the 4x100 m with 54.04 and the gold medal in the 4x400 m event with 4:26.98 athe 2021 Virtus World Athletics Championships in
Bydgoszcz
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, Poland.
She competed at the
2020 Summer Paralympics
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in
Tokyo
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, Japan, and finished the
long jump
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event with 5.06 m on the seventh place.
2023
She won the silver medal in the heptathlon event with 3,251 points, the bronze medal in the 400 m hurdles with 80.97 and the silver medal in high jump with 1.60 m at the 2023 Virtus Global Games in
Vichy
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Known f ...
Dubai
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, United Arab Emirates.
She won the bronze medal with her 5.43 m mark in the
long jump
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at the
2024 World Para Athletics Championships
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This was the 11th edition of the event and was held at Kobe Univ ...
in
Kobe
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, Japan.
At the 2024 Virtus Open European Athletics Championships in
Uppsala
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Loc ...
, Sweden, she captured gold medals in the 4x100 m relay with 49.92 and 4x400 m with 4:09.91 and heptathlon with 1,882 points as well as silver medals in the high jump with 1.54 m and long jump 5.50 m.
Altın received a quota for participation at the
2024 Summer Paralympics
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in
Paris
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, France. She won the bronze medal in the long jump T20 event with her career best mark of 5.73 m.
Personal life
Fatma Damla Altın was born in
Kırklareli
Kırklareli () is a city in the East Thrace, European part of Turkey. It is the seat of Kırklareli Province and Kırklareli District. Since 2018, she has been living in
Samsun
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