Hatice Atay
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| Nationality | Turkish | ||||||||
| Born | 1996 (age 27–28) Turkey | ||||||||
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| Sport | Women's Wheelchair Basketball & Women's Para-badminton | ||||||||
| Disability class | 3.5 | ||||||||
| Club | Düziçi ESK | ||||||||
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Hatice Atay (born 1996) is a Turkish wheelchair basketball and para-badminton player. She was a member of the Turkey women's national wheelchair basketball team.
Club career
[edit]Atay started playing wheelchair basketball and para-badminton in 2016.[1] In basketball, she has disability class 3.5.[2]She is a member of Düziçi Disabled Sports Club in Osmaniye.[1]
She won second and third place titles in para-badminton in the singles and mixed team events at the Turkish Championships.[1]
International career
[edit]Atay was selected to the Turkey women's national under-25 wheelchair basketball team,[3] and played at the 2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship held in Suphanburi, Thailand.[2]
She played for the Turkey women's national wheelchair basketball team at the European Wheelchair Basketball Championship in 2019 in Rotterdam, Netherlands.[4]
Personal life
[edit]Hatice was born in 1996 with congenital disorder of walking disability.[2][1]
She married to Halit Yaşar Atay in 2017, who had lost both legs after a road accident in 2011, she had met during wheelchair basketball training in Osmaniye in 2016. The couple became parents of a baby girl in 2018.[1]
She studied in the School of Physical Education and Sports at Osmaniye Korkut Ata University.[5]
She works as a civil servant in a public institution like her spouse.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f "Spor aşkı engelli çifti yaşama bağlıyor". Fanatik (in Turkish). 10 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
- ^ a b c "Turkey Team Roster". 2023 IWBF U25 Women's Wheelchair Basketball World Championship Bangkok Thailand. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
- ^ "Turkey name U25 team to make debut at 2019 World Championships". IWBF. 11 May 2019. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
- ^ "2019 European Championship for Women, Division A - Türkiye Player List". International Wheelchair Basketball Federation. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
- ^ "Üniversitemiz Engelli Milli Sporcusu Hatice Atay'dan Rektörümüze Ziyaret" (in Turkish). Osmaniye Korkut Ata Üniversitesi. 10 January 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2024.