Ebru Acer (born 27 June 2002) is a Turkish European champion

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player competing in the C11 disability class. Acer is the first ever Turkish para table tennis player to become a Paralympian. She participated at the 2024 Paralympics in

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, France, and won a bronze medal.

Sport career

Acer started para table tennis playing with her family's encouragement in 2017. She is a member of Şafaktepe GSK in Ankara.

2019

In 2019, she took the silver medal in the singles C11 event at the European Para Table Tennis Championships in

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, Sweden.

2022

She received the bronze medal with her teammate Sümeyra Türk in the doubles C11 event at the 2022 World Tennis Championships in

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, Spain. In June, she won gold medal at the 2022 ITTF Czech Para Open in Ostrava. In July 2022, Acer took won two gold medal in the women's singles and women's open events at the VIRTUS European Summer Games held in

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2023

In 2023, she took the silver medal at the 2023 ITTF Thailand Open Tennis Tournament in

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. She claimed the gold medal in the singles C11, and another gold medal with her teammate Sümeyra Türk in the doubles C11 event at the 2023 Virtus Global Games in Vichy, France. In the same year, she became champion at the 2023 European Para Table Tennis Championships in

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, England.

2024

In 2024, she took the silver medal at the 2024 ITTF Egypt Para Open in

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, the gold medal in the singles C11 event at the ITTF Slovenia Para Open Thermana Laško in Laško, Slovenia, and another gold medal in the singles C11 event at the 2024 ITTF Czech Para Open in

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, Czech Republic. Acer's champion title at the 2023 Global Games brought her the

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to represent her country at the 2024 Paralympics in

, France. She participated at the 2024 Paralympics in

, France, and won a bronze medal. Acer is the first ever Turkish para table tennis player to become a Paralympian.

Personal life

Acer was born in 2002 into a family in poverty living in a slum of

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's Yenimahalle district. In her school years, she was not successful. Currently, she is a student of sport coaching at Gazi University in

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