Gülşah Düzgün (born Gülşah Aktürk on 25 September 1995) is a Turkish female Paralympian

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player. She is a member of the national team.

Private life

Gülşah Düzgün was born to İsmail Aktürk and his spouse Mğrvet on 25 September 1995. She completed her secondary education in a school for the blinds and visually impaired. She is married to her club mate

Tekin Okan Düzgün Tekin Okan Düzgün (born 24 May 1988, in Ankara) is a Turkish national goalball player of class B1 and Paralympian. Personal life He is married to his club mate Gülşah Aktürk, a visually impaired sportswoman and national team player. Th ...

, also a visually impaired sportsman and a national goalball player. In 2018, she gave birth to a daughter, Elif Bera.

Sporting career

The visually impaired girl started performing goalball in the school through her physical training teacher in 2006. She played in the beginning in the school team, and later in a club. In 2007 at age 12, she was admitted to the national team, and was coached by Alşi Tekçe. She debuted internationally at a tournament in Germany in 2009. Düzgün competes for Kahramanmaraş Ertuğrul Gazi Disabled SK in

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. She enjoyed the champion title with the national team at the 2015 IBSA Goalball European Championships Division A in

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, Lithuania, which was a qualifier competition for the 2016 Paralympics. Düzgün was a member of the women's national goalball team at the 2016 Paralympics in

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, Brazil. She won the gold medal with her teammates at the Paralympics.

Honours

International

* 2012 IBSA European Goalball Championships B in

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, Italy * 2013 IBSA Goalball European Championships Div. A in

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, Turkey. * Malmö Lady- and Men InterVup 2014, Sweden. * 2014 IBSA Goalball World Championships in

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, Finland * 2015 IBSA Goalball European Championships Div. A in

, Lithuania. *

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, Brazil. * 2018 IB>SA World Goalball Championships in

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, Sweden * 2019 IBSA Goalball European Championship in

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, Germany

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* * 1995 births Living people Turkish female goalball players Paralympic goalball players for Turkey Paralympic gold medalists for Turkey Paralympic medalists in goalball Goalball players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Place of birth missing (living people) {{Goalball-bio-stub