Sevda Kılınç Çırakoğlu Explained

Sevda Kılınç Çırakoğlu
Birth Date:25 May 1993
Birth Place:Ankara, Turkey
Education:Physical Education and Sport
Alma Mater:Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University
Country:Turkey
Sport:Paralympic athletics
Club:Yenimahalle Belediyesi Visual Impaireds SC
Disability:Visual impairment
Disability Class:T12

Sevda Kılınç Çırakoğlu (born 25 May 1993) is a Turkish female para athlete competing in the T12 disability class middle-distance events of 400m and 1500m.

Private life

Sevda Kılınç Çırakoğlu was born in Ankara, Turkey on 25 May 1993. She studied Physical Education and Sport at Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University.

Sport career

Kılınç Çırakoğlu is a member of Yenimahalle Belediyesi Visual Impaireds Sport Club in Ankara.

She won the gold medal in the 1500m T12 event at the seventh leg of the 2019 IPC Para-Athletich World Grand Prix held in Tunisia. At the 2021 IPC Para-Athletics World Grand Prix in Dubaş, United Arab Emirates, she captured the gold medal in the 400m T12 event, and set a new Turkish national record with 59.16. She took the gold medal in the 400m T12 event of the 2021 World Para Athletics European Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland.