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NeÅŸe Mercan (born 19 September 1994) is a Turkish female Paralympian
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player. She is a member of the national team.


Early years

NeÅŸe Mercan was born in
Ä°skenderun Ä°skenderun (), historically known as Alexandretta (, ) and Scanderoon, is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Hatay Province, Turkey. Its area is 247 km2, and its population is 251,682 (2022). It is on the Mediterranean coas ...
of
Hatay Province Hatay Province (, ) is the southernmost province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey. Its area is , and its population is 1,686,043 (2022). It is situated mostly outside Anatolia, along the eastern coast of the Levantine Sea. The province ...
,
Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...
on 19 September 1994.


Sporting career

Mercan 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. In 2018, she enjoyed her national team's silver medal win at the Goalball World Championships in
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, Sweden. She was part of the national team, which became champion at the 2019 IBSA Goalball European Championship held in
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, Germany. Her team became undefeated champion at the 2019 Elite Teams International Women Goalball Tournament in Japan.


Honours


International

* 2012 IBSA European Goalball Championships B in
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, Italy * 2013 IBSA Goalball European Championship in
Konya Konya is a major city in central Turkey, on the southwestern edge of the Central Anatolian Plateau, and is the capital of Konya Province. During antiquity and into Seljuk times it was known as Iconium. In 19th-century accounts of the city in En ...
, Turkey * 2015 IBSA Goalball European Championship in
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, Lithuania *
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in
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, Brazil. * 2017 IBSA Goalball European ChampiÅŸonship in Nastola, Finland * 2018 Goalball World Championships in
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, Sweden, * 2019 IBSA Goalball European ChampiÅŸonship in
Rostock Rostock (; Polabian language, Polabian: ''Roztoc''), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (), is the largest city in the German States of Germany, state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the sta ...
, Germany, * 2019 Elite Teams International Women Goalball Tournament in Japan,


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* * 1994 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 People from Ä°skenderun Sportspeople from Hatay Sportspeople from Hatay Province 21st-century Turkish sportswomen {{Goalball-bio-stub