Neslihan Kavas
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Nationality | Turkish | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Eskişehir, Turkey | 29 August 1987||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Turkey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Para table tennis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Eskşehir Çağfen Spor Kulübü | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Vildan Şensöz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Updated on 4 October 2013 |
Neslihan Kavas (born 29 August 1987 in Eskişehir, Turkey) is a Turkish female para table tennis player of class 9 and Paralympian.[1]
She represented Turkey at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, and won bronze by defeating Poland's Malgorzata Grzelak, three sets to nil (11–7, 11–4, 13–11).[2]
Kavas took part at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and advanced to the final, at which she won the silver medal losing 2–3 to Chinese Lei Lina, champion of the 2008 Summer Paralympics. Furthermore, she was part of the Turkish team, which became silver medalist in the women's team class 6–10 event after losing to the team from China in the final.
She the gold medal in the women's single class 9 division at the 2013 ITTF European Para-Table Tennis Championships held in Lignano, Italy.[3]
Achievements
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes |
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2007 | IPC European Championship | Slovakia | 1st | individual |
3rd | team | |||
2008 | Summer Paralympics | Beijing, China | 3rd | individual |
2009 | IPC European Championship | Italy | 2nd | individual |
3rd | team | |||
2010 | IPC World Championship | South Korea | 2nd | team |
2011 | IPC International Tournament | Slovenia | 1st | individual |
3rd | team | |||
IPC European Championship | 1st | individual | ||
1st | team | |||
2012 | Summer Paralympics | London, United Kingdom | 2nd | individual |
2nd | team | |||
2013 | ITTF European Championships | Lignano, Italy | 1st | individual |
Notes
- ^ "Sporcular / Masa Tenisi - Neslihan Kavas" (in Turkish). GSB. Retrieved 2012-09-02.
- ^ "Neslihan Kavas bronz madalya aldı". Sabah (in Turkish). 2008-09-11. Retrieved 2010-08-31.
- ^ "Turkey, France haul in table tennis titles". IPC. 2013-10-07. Retrieved 2014-09-04.
- 1987 births
- Turkish table tennis players
- Turkish sportswomen
- Table tennis players at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Table tennis players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Table tennis players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic table tennis players of Turkey
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic medalists in table tennis
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Turkey
- Paralympic silver medalists for Turkey
- Sportspeople from Eskişehir
- Living people
- European Paralympic medalist stubs
- Turkish sportspeople stubs
- Table tennis biography stubs
- Paralympic medalist stubs