Begünhan Elif Oruç (born 4 January 1993) is a Turkish

archer Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In modern ...

Private life

Begünhan Elif Oruç was born in

Isparta Isparta is a city in western Turkey. It is the seat of Isparta Province and Isparta District.İl ...

, Turkey on 4 January 1993. After finishing private high school in Altınbaşak College, she studied Sports Science at the Faculty of Health Science in

Süleyman Demirel University Süleyman Demirel University (SDU) () is a public List of universities in Turkey, university located in Isparta, Turkey. Established in 1992, the university, with around 70.000 students, is the second largest academic institution in Turkey. S ...

in her hometown.

Sports career

Ünsal began her archery career at age ten, inspired by her older sister, also an archer, and encouraged by her father. Ünsal is trained by her father Yalçın Ünsal. She participated at the

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. She was eliminated in the second round in the individual event by the silver medallist Tan Ya-Ting. She paired up with Abdul Dayyan bin Mohamed Jaffar of

to win bronze in the mixed team event. Ünsal won the silver medal in the youth category and the bronze medal in the senior category at the 2010 Archery European Indoor Championships held in

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, Croatia. At the 2010 European Archery Championships held in

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, Italy, Ünsal became the bronze medalist. She won a gold medal in the team event of the 2010 European Junior Cu, which took place in

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, Italy.

References

1993 births Sportspeople from Isparta Süleyman Demirel University alumni Archers at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Turkish female archers Archers at the 2015 European Games European Games competitors for Turkey Living people 21st-century Turkish sportswomen {{Turkey-archery-bio-stub