Ada Zehra Anlatıcı
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| Nationality | Turkish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 2007 (age 16–17) Turkey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.55 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 42 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Breaststroke, backstroke, freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Adapazarı Belediye Spor Klübü | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Halil İbrahim Aydın | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ada Zehra Anlatıcı (born 2007) is a Turkish World-champion swimmer with Mosaic Down syndrome. She is the holder of several world records.
Sport career
Anlatıcı started swimming sport at the age of ten inspired by her coach Halil İbrahim Aydın. Besides swimming, she took gymnastics exercise course twice a week. In swimming, she trains five days a week in the pool and two days on ground. She debuted internationally in 2019 at the 5th Open European DSISO Swimming Championships on Sardinia, Italy.[1]
She won two silver medals in the 50 m and 100 m breaststroke as well as two bronze medals in the 50 m and 100 m backstroke events at the SUDS Open Euro Trigames 2021 held in Ferrara, Italy. She broke also four world records in the 50 m, U16 100 m freestyle and open age 200 m breaststroke.[1][2] In 2023, she took the gold medal in the 200 m breaststroke, the silver medal in the 100 m freestyle and the bronze medal in the 50 m backstroke events at the 7th European Down Syndrome Swimming Championship in Padova, Italy.[3]
Personal life
Ada Zehra Anlatıcı was born in 2007 at Ankara Turkey.[1] She lives in Adapazarı and is a student of high school at the Doğa Koleji in Sakarya.[4]
References
- ^ a b c "Rekortmen yüzücümüz anlatıyor: Suda olmak uçmak gibi..." Hürriyet (in Turkish). 24 October 2021. Retrieved 7 September 2023.
- ^ "Milli yüzücü Ada Zehra Anlatıcı'dan 4 dünya rekoru". TRT Haber (in Turkish). 14 October 2021. Retrieved 7 September 2023.
- ^ "Ada Zehra Anlatıcı dünya rekorunun sahibi oldu". TRT Haber (in Turkish). 6 September 2023. Retrieved 7 September 2023.
- ^ "Öğrencimiz Ada Zehra Anlatıcı, İtalya'da Dünya Rekoru Kırdı" (in Turkish). Doğa Koleji. Retrieved 7 September 2023.