Berfin Altan (born 24 November 2003) is a Turkish

goalball Goalball is a team sport designed specifically for athletes with a visual impairment, vision impairment. Participants compete in teams of three, and try to throw a ball with bells embedded inside it into the opponents' goal. The ball is throw ...

player having visual impairment. She was a member of the national team at the 2021 IBSA European Goalball Championship. She is a high school student at the School for the Blind and Visually Impaired "Durmuş Ali Çoban Anadolu Lisesi" in

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, Turkey. She is a member of the school goalball team. After playing chess and performin Judo, she switched over to goalball in 2016. She has been called up to the Turkey women's national goalball team camps since 2018. She took part at the 2021 IBSA Goalball European Championship held in

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, Turkey. She enjoyed her team's silver medal title.

Honours

International

* 2021 IBSA Goalball European Championship in

, Turkey.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Altan, Berfin 2003 births Living people Turkish female goalball players Paralympic goalball players for Turkey Paralympic gold medalists for Turkey Paralympic medalists in goalball Goalball players at the 2024 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics Sportspeople from Denizli 21st-century Turkish sportswomen