Yusuf Uçar (born 1 January 1987, in

Reyhanlı Reyhanlı (; , ''ar-Rayḥānīyah'') is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Hatay Province, Turkey. Its area is 367 km2, and its population is 108,092 (2022). It is near the country's Syria–Turkey border, border with Syria ...

Hatay Province Hatay Province (, ) is the southernmost province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey. Its area is , and its population is 1,686,043 (2022). It is situated mostly outside Anatolia, along the eastern coast of the Levantine Sea. The province ...

, Turkey) is a Turkish

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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 of class B1 and

Paralympian The Paralympic Games or Paralympics is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Kore ...

Sporting career

A member of İstanbul Visually Impaired People Sports Club, Uçar played in Turkey's national team at the

2012 Summer Paralympics The 2012 Summer Paralympics, branded as the London 2012 Paralympic Games, were an international Multi-sport event, multi-sport parasports event held from 29 August to 9 September 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. They were the 14th Sum ...

, which became bronze medalist.

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* * 1987 births Living people Turkish male goalball players Paralympic goalball players for Turkey Paralympic bronze medalists for Turkey Paralympic medalists in goalball Goalball players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Visually impaired-category Paralympic competitors People from Reyhanlı Sportspeople from Hatay Province Sportspeople from Hatay 21st-century Turkish sportsmen {{Goalball-bio-stub