Zeynep Çelik (born 7 April 1996)
is a Turkish world and European champion
Paralympic judoka with
visual impairment
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Sport career
Çelik is tall at . She is a member of Kocaeli BB Kağıt SK and is coached by Ahmet Ömre Türe. She has a visual impairment of sport disability classification
B3.
Çelik won the bronze medal at the
2015 IBSA European Judo Championships in
Odivelas
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, Portugal.
She became gold medalist at the
2017 IBSA European Judo Championships
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in
Walsall
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, United Kingdom,
and at the
2018 IBSA Judo World Championships in
Odivelas
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, Portugal.
At the 2021 IBSA Judo World Grand Prix in
Baku, Azerbaijan, she suffered a fracture on her left wrist. She was cured for two and half months before she attended the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.
She won one of the bronze medals in the
women's 57 kg event at the
2020 Summer Paralympics
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held in
Tokyo
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, Japan.
She took the gold medal at the 2022 IBSA Judo World Championships in
Baku, Azerbaijan.
In 2023, she won the gold medal at the IBSA International German Open Tournament in
Heidelberg
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, Germany.
She took the silver medal at the
2023 European Para Championships
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Sports
The following competitions took place:
Venues
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in
Rotterdam
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, Netherlands.
Personal life
Zeynep Çelik was born as a daughter to a family with fifteen children in
Ağrı
Ağrı ( ku, Agirî; ) is the capital of Ağrı Province in eastern Turkey, near the border with Iran. Formerly known as Karaköse ( ku, Qerekose) from the early Turkish republican period until 1946, and before that as Karakilise ( ota, قره� ...
, eastern Turkey on 7 April 1996.
She is disabled with a
vidual impairment
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She studies Sports Coaching in the Faculty of Sports Sicece at
Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University in
Karaman
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.
References
1996 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Ağrı
Turkish disabled sportspeople
Sportspeople with a vision impairment
Parasports competitors
Turkish female judoka
21st-century Turkish sportswomen
Paralympic judoka for Turkey
Paralympic bronze medalists for Turkey
Visually impaired category Paralympic competitors
Paralympic medalists in judo
Judoka at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
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