Gülşah Düzgün | |
Birth Name: | Gülşah Aktürk |
Birth Date: | 25 September 1995 |
Sport: | Goalball |
Club: | Kahramanmaraş Ertuğrul Gazi Disabled SK |
Gülşah Düzgün (born Gülşah Aktürk on 25 September 1995) is a Turkish female Paralympian goalball player. She is a member of the national team.
Gülşah Düzgün was born to İsmail Aktürk and his spouse Mğrvet on 25 September 1995. She completed her secondary education in a school for the blinds and visually impaired.
She is married to her club mate Tekin Okan Düzgün, also a visually impaired sportsman and a national goalball player. In 2018, she gave birth to a daughter, Elif Bera.
The visually impaired girl started performing goalball in the school through her physical training teacher in 2006. She played in the beginning in the school team, and later in a club. In 2007 at age 12, she was admitted to the national team, and was coached by Alşi Tekçe. She debuted internationally at a tournament in Germany in 2009.
Düzgün competes for Kahramanmaraş Ertuğrul Gazi Disabled SK in Kahramanmaraş.
She enjoyed the champion title with the national team at the 2015 IBSA Goalball European Championships Division A in Kaunas, Lithuania, which was a qualifier competition for the 2016 Paralympics.
Düzgün was a member of the women's national goalball team at the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She won the gold medal with her teammates at the Paralympics.