Ferit Gümüş (born 1 January 1981) is a Turkish

wheelchair basketball Wheelchair basketball is a style of basketball played using a sports wheelchair. The International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) is the governing body for this sport. It is recognized by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) as ...

player and

Paralympian 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 ...

. He is a

3 point player 3-point player is a disability sport classification for wheelchair basketball. People in this class have good forward and backward trunk movement but poor to no sideways trunk movement. The class includes people with L2–L4 paraplegia and amputati ...

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

2012 Summer Paralympics The 2012 Summer Paralympics, branded as the London 2012 Paralympic Games, were an international Multi-sport event, multi-sport parasports event held from 29 August to 9 September 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. They were the 14th Sum ...

Career history

He played in the

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, which ranked eight at the

2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship The 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship was held in Birmingham, Great Britain from 7 to 17 July 2010. Both the men's and women's tournaments were held. The Championships was a qualifying event for the London 2012 Paralympic Games. ...

held in

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. At the

, the national team, he was part of, ranked 7th.

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* * 1981 births Living people People from Kızıltepe 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 Galatasaray S.K. (wheelchair basketball) players Beşiktaş JK wheelchair basketball players Forwards (basketball) 21st-century Turkish sportsmen {{Turkey-basketball-bio-stub