Zeynep Çelik
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| Coached by | Ahmet Ömre Türe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| IJF | 65004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| JudoInside.com | 99779 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Zeynep Çelik (born 7 April 1996)
Sport career
Çelik is 168 cm (5 ft 6 in) tall at 57 kg (126 lb). 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.[3]
Çelik won the bronze medal at the 2015 IBSA European Judo Championships in Odivelas, Portugal.[3] She became gold medalist at the 2017 IBSA European Judo Championships in Walsall, United Kingdom,[4] and at the 2018 IBSA Judo World Championships in Odivelas, Portugal.[5] 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.[6] She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 57 kg event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan.[7] She took the gold medal at the 2022 IBSA Judo World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan.[8] In 2023, she won the gold medal at the IBSA International German Open Tournament in Heidelberg, Germany.[9] She took the silver medal at the 2023 European Para Championships in Rotterdam, Netherlands.[10]
Personal life
Zeynep Çelik was born as a daughter to a family with fifteen children in Ağrı, eastern Turkey on 7 April 1996.[3][6] She is disabled with a vidual impairment.[6]
She studies Sports Coaching in the Faculty of Sports Sicece at Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University in Karaman.[8]
References
- The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the originalon 28 August 2021. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
- ^ "Zeynep Çelik". JudoInside.com. 28 August 2021. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
- ^ Türkiye Milli Paralimpik Komitesi. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
- ^ "Görme Engelli Spor Dalları" (in Turkish). Türkiye Gençlik ve Spor. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
- ^ "Judoda Zeynep Çelik'ten altın madalya". CNN Türk (in Turkish). 17 November 2018. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
- ^ TRT Spor(in Turkish). 3 September 2021. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
- ^ Houston, Michael (28 August 2021). "Azerbaijan wins three golds on second day of judo at Tokyo 2020 Olympics". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
- ^ a b "Zeynep Çelik, dünya şampiyonasından altın madalya ile döndü". Karamanın Sesi (in Turkish). 18 November 2022. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
- ^ "Judo Milli Takımımız Almanya'da Madalyaları Yopladı" (in Turkish). Türkiye Görme Engelliler Spor Federasyonu. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
- ^ "Karamanlı Sporcu Zeynep Çelik Judoda Avrupa İkincisi Oldu". Uyanış (in Turkish). 9 August 2023. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
External links
- Zeynep Çelik at the International Judo Federation
- Zeynep Çelik at JudoInside.com
- Zeynep Çelik at Paralympic.org
- Zeynep Çelik at the Turkish National Olympic Committee
- Zeynep Çelik at the Türkiye Milli Paralimpik Komitesi (in Turkish)
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