Emine Seçkin
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| Type of disability (class): | WH2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Turkey
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| Birthday: | March 20, 1980 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Aksaray | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Society: | Konyaspor Kulübü | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Emine Seçkin (born March 20, 1980 in Aksaray , Aksaray Province ) is a Turkish badminton player . She is physically handicapped due to an illness at the age of two and starts in Parabadminton in the starting class WH2 in singles, doubles and mixed. Seçkin is preparing to take part in the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo .
Athletic career
Seçkin first operational wheelchair basketball and came in 2010 to Parabadminton . In the same year she took part for the first time in an international title tournament, the Badminton European Championship for the disabled in 2010 in Filzbach, Switzerland . Despite the poor performance as the last of the competition, Seçkin started the following year at the Badminton World Cup for the disabled in Guatemala City in 2011 and won bronze medals in singles and in mixed with the Englishman Gobi Ranganathan . In 2012 she won two silver medals at the European Championships in Dortmund , in singles and in mixed with Avni Kertmen . A year later, at the World Cup, also in Dortmund, she won silver in the individual final against South Korean Lee Sun-ae . In mixed she competed again with Avni Kertmen and lost in the final to the duo Kim Kyung-hoon and Lee Sun-ae. In the singles final of the Parabadminton European Championship 2014 in Murcia , Seçkin celebrated her first title win after defeating Narin Uluç . In doubles, she lost to Valeska Knoblauch and Elke Rongen in the semifinals . Even in mixed it was only enough for bronze, she lost, again with Avni Kertmen, the English-Swiss duo Martin Rooke and Karin Suter-Erath . At the 2015 World Championships in Stoke Mandeville , Seçkin only made it into the medal ranks in singles. She was defeated in the semifinals of the later Thai world champion Amnouy Wetwithan .
The 2016 European Badminton Championships for the disabled in Beek , the Netherlands , brought Seçkin two gold medals. In the singles final she defeated Narin Uluç and in doubles she beat the German duo Valeska Knoblauch and Elke Rongen alongside Karin Suter-Erath. In mixed her semi-final defeat in 2014 with Kertmen against Rooke and Suter-Erath was repeated. At the European Badminton Championships for the disabled in Rodez in 2018 , Seçkin was able to win the title in the individual final by beating Narin Uluç. With her Belgian doubles partner Man-Kei To she lost in the doubles final to the Swiss duo Cynthia Mathez and Karin Suter-Erath, and with the Russian Konstantin Afinogenow she lost in mixed against the Israelis Amir Levi and Nina Gorodetzky .
Seçkin works in the public sector. She is married and lives with her family with two children in Konya .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Your sport statistics, one place. In: bwfpara.tournamentsoftware.com. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Engelli annenin azmi Avrupa şampiyonluğunu getirdi. In: turkinfo.nl. Retrieved February 21, 2020 .
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| SURNAME | Seçkin, Emine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish badminton player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aksaray , Aksaray Province |