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Born | Ağrı, Turkey | 7 April 1996||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation | Judoka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 168 cm (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 57 kg (126 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Turkey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Paralympic judo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | KocaeliBB Kağıt Spor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Ahmet Ömre Türe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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JudoInside.com | 99779 |
Zeynep Çelik (born 7 April 1996) [1] is a Turkish world and European champion Paralympic judoka with visual impairment. [2]
Çelik is 168 cm (5 ft 6 in) tall at 57 kg (126 lb). She is a member of Kocaeli BB Kağıt SK and is coached by Ahmet Ömre Türe. She has a visual impairment of sport disability classification B3. [3]
Çelik won the bronze medal at the 2015 IBSA European Judo Championships in Odivelas, Portugal. [3] She became gold medalist at the 2017 IBSA European Judo Championships in Walsall, United Kingdom, [4] and at the 2018 IBSA Judo World Championships in Odivelas, Portugal. [5] At the 2021 IBSA Judo World Grand Prix in Baku, Azerbaijan, she suffered a fracture on her left wrist. She was cured for two and half months before she attended the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. [6] She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 57 kg event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan. [7] She took the gold medal at the 2022 IBSA Judo World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan. [8] In 2023, she won the gold medal at the IBSA International German Open Tournament in Heidelberg, Germany. [9] She took the silver medal at the 2023 European Para Championships in Rotterdam, Netherlands. [10]
Zeynep Çelik was born as a daughter to a family with fifteen children in Ağrı, eastern Turkey on 7 April 1996. [3] [6] She is disabled with a vidual impairment. [6]
She studies Sports Coaching in the Faculty of Sports Sicece at Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University in Karaman. [8]