Aytaç Ercan Explained

Aytaç Ercan
Position:Center
League:Turkish Wheelchair Basketball Super League
Team:Beşiktaş Wheelchair Basketball Team
Number:13
Nationality:Turkish
Birth Date:1976 12, df=yes
Birth Place:Istanbul, Turkey
Career Start:1998
Years1:2003-2005
Team1:Beşiktaş
Years2:2005-2007
Team2:Galatasaray
Years3:2007-present
Team3:Beşiktaş

Aytaç Ercan (born 21 December 1976) is a Turkish wheelchair basketball player and Paralympian. He is a 4 point player competing for Beşiktaş Wheelchair Basketball Team, and is part of Turkey men's national wheelchair basketball team.[1] [2]

He became a polio survivor due to not having been vaccinated as an infant.[3]

Aytaç Ercan played in the national team, which qualified to the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Sporting career

He began with wheelchair basketball playing in 1998 in the Istanbul Youth Disabled Sport Club. Following two champion titles earned in 1999 and 2000, he transferred to Istanbul Fatih Disabled Sport Club. In the beginning of 2003, he became a member of Beşiktaş Wheelchair Basketball Team, and was admitted to the national team. With the foundation of the Galatasaray Wheelchair Basketball Team, Ercan signed with this team, and his team became already in its first season champion in the Second Wheelchair Basketball League. In 2006, Ercan transferred back to Beşiktaş.[4]

Aytaç Ercan was named MVP at the 2002 Malmö Open in Sweden. He became top scorer at an international tournament, and was selected to All Star Team at the 2006 Balkan Cup. Ercan played in the national team, which won the 2011 André Vergauwen Cup.[4]

At the 2012 Summer Paralympics, the national team, he was part of, ranked 7th.

Achievements

Representing
2009IWBF Champions CupBeşiktaş
2010WB World ChampionshipBirmingham, United Kingdom8thnational team
2011IWBF Champions Cup5thBeşiktaş
2012Summer ParalympicsLondon, United Kingdom7thnational team

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Aytac Ercan . London 2012 Paralympics . . 6 September 2012 . 6 September 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120906014857/http://www.london2012.com/paralympics/athlete/ercan-aytac-5502681/ . dead.
  2. Web site: Sporcular / Tekerlekli Sandalye Basketbol-Aytaç Ercan . GSB . Turkish . 6 September 2012 . dead . https://archive.today/20121221165114/http://gsb.gov.tr/paralimpik/site/sporcular.asp?nameid=430 . 21 December 2012.
  3. News: Özdil, Yılmaz . 29 August 2012 . Eli ayağı tutan acizler ülkesinin... İnsanüstü yetenekli milli takımı . . Turkish . 6 September 2012.
  4. Web site: Aytaç Ercan . BJK . Turkish . 6 September 2012.