Gülşah Düzgün (born Gülşah Aktürk on 25 September 1995) is a Turkish female Paralympian goalball player. She is a member of the national team.[1]
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.[2]
She is married to her club mate Tekin Okan Düzgün, also a visually impaired sportsman and a national goalball player. In 2018, she gave birth to a daughter, Elif Bera.[2]
Sporting career
The visually impaired girl started performing goalball in the school through her physical training teacher in 2006.[2][3] 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,[2][3] and was coached by Alşi Tekçe. She debuted internationally at a tournament in Germany in 2009.[2]
Düzgün competes for Kahramanmaraş Ertuğrul Gazi Disabled SK in Kahramanmaraş.[4]
She enjoyed the champion title with the national team at the 2015 IBSA Goalball European Championships Division A in Kaunas, Lithuania, which was a qualifier competition for the 2016 Paralympics.[4]
Düzgün was a member of the women's national goalball team at the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[5] She won the gold medal with her teammates at the Paralympics.[6]
Honours
International
2012 IBSA European Goalball Championships B in Ascoli Piceno, Italy
2013 IBSA Goalball European Championships Div. A in Konya, Turkey.