Seda Yıldız (born 7 December 1998) is a Turkish female Paralympian
goalball
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player. She is a member of the national team.
Sporting career
Yıldız competes for Kahramanmaraş Ertuğrul Gazi Disabled SK in
Kahramanmaraş
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.
She enjoyed the champion title with the national team at the 2015 IBSA Goalball European Championships Division A in
Kaunas
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, Lithuania, which was a qualifier competition for the 2016 Paralympics.
Yıldız was a member of the women's national goalball team at the
2016 Paralympics in
Rio de Janeiro
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, Brazil.
She won the gold medal with her teammates at the Paralympics.
Honours
International
* 2013 IBSA Goalball European Championships in
Konya
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, Turkey
* Malmö Lady- and Men InterVup 2014, Sweden.
* 2014 IBSA Goalball World Championships in
Espoo
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, Finland.
* 2015 IBSA Goalball European Championships Div. A in
Kaunas
Kaunas (; ) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius, the fourth largest List of cities in the Baltic states by population, city in the Baltic States and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaun ...
, Lithuania.
*
2016 Summer Paralympics
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in
Rio de Janeiro
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, Brazil.
* 2019 IBSA Goalball European Champişonship in
Rostock
Rostock (; Polabian language, Polabian: ''Roztoc''), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (), is the largest city in the German States of Germany, state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the sta ...
, Germany
References
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1998 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 2016 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
21st-century Turkish sportswomen
Place of birth missing (living people)
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