Seda Yıldız (born December 7, 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
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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
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, Lithuania.
*
2016 Summer Paralympics
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in
Rio de Janeiro
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, Brazil.
* 2019 IBSA Goalball European Champişonship in
Rostock
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, Germany
References
Living people
1998 births
Turkish sportswomen
Female goalball players
Goalball players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Paralympic gold medalists for Turkey
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Paralympic medalists in goalball
Paralympic goalball players for Turkey
21st-century Turkish women
Place of birth missing (living people)
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