Turkish wheelchair basketball and para-badminton player (born 1996)
Hatice Atay
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| Nationality | Turkish |
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| Born | 1996 (age 27–28)
Turkey |
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| Sport | Women's Wheelchair Basketball & Women's Para-badminton |
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| Disability class | 3.5 |
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| Club | Düziçi ESK |
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Hatice Atay (born 1996) is a Turkish wheelchair basketball and para-badminton player. She was a member of the Turkey women's national wheelchair basketball team.
Club career
Atay started playing wheelchair basketball and para-badminton in 2016.[1] In basketball, she has disability class 3.5.[2]She is a member of Düziçi Disabled Sports Club in Osmaniye.[1]
She won second and third place titles in para-badminton in the singles and mixed team events at the Turkish Championships.[1]
International career
Atay was selected to the Turkey women's national under-25 wheelchair basketball team,[3] and played at the 2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship held in Suphanburi, Thailand.[2]
She played for the Turkey women's national wheelchair basketball team at the European Wheelchair Basketball Championship in 2019 in Rotterdam, Netherlands.[4]
Personal life
Hatice was born in 1996 with congenital disorder of walking disability.[2][1]
She married to Halit Yaşar Atay in 2017, who had lost both legs after a road accident in 2011, she had met during wheelchair basketball training in Osmaniye in 2016. The couple became parents of a baby girl in 2018.[1]
She studied in the School of Physical Education and Sports at Osmaniye Korkut Ata University.[5]
She works as a civil servant in a public institution like her spouse.[1]
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