Sibel Altınkaya (born 1 February 1993) is a Turkish

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player. She qualified to participate at the

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, France.

Sport career

Altınkaya started her table tennis playing career in 2003. She won many domestic championships. In 2008, she debuted internationally. She has Balkan Championships and seven consecutive European Championships titles. She is coached by her spouse Ufuk Altınkaya. As of 25 June 2024, she ranks 91st in the world list. Her highest rank was 71st in April 2023. End June 2024, she transferred to Fenerbahçe Table Tennis. She is right-handed, and attacks shakehand. She took the silver medal in the team event at the

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, Spain. She competed in the team event of the

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, France and

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, Romania. She and her teammates failed to advance to the second round in the doubles event and to the third round in the

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event at the 2021 World Championships in

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, United States. She participated at the 2022 WTT Singapore Grand Smash, where she was not able to qualify for the main tour. At the

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, Algeria, she ranked fifth in the singles and seventh in the team event. She so improved her rank in the world list to 89th. She won the bronze medal in the singles event, and the silver medal in the team event at the

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, Turkey. In the doubles and

events at the 2023 World Championships in

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, South Africa, she and her teammates lost the first round. She lost the first round in the

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event at the

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, Poland. After gathering points at the 2024 WTT Star Contender Ljubljana, Altınkaya qualified to represent her country at the

, France after her achievement at the WTT Star Contender Ljubljana 2024. She lost the Round of 64 match against the 61-year-old Chinese-born

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from Luxembourg by 2-4, and was eliminated.

Personal life

Sibel Altınkaya was born in

Adana Adana is a large city in southern Turkey. The city is situated on the Seyhan River, inland from the northeastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea. It is the administrative seat of the Adana Province, Adana province, and has a population of 1 81 ...

, Turkey on 1 February 1993. She married to Ufuk Altınkaya, a table tennis coach since 1998, whom she met at the Turkish Championships in

Marmaris Marmaris () is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Muğla Province, Turkey. Its area is 906 km2, and its population is 97,818 (2022). It is a port city and tourist resort on the Aegean Sea, Mediterranean coast, along the shorel ...

in 2014.

References

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Sibel Altinkaya
at the

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