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| Nationality | Turkish | ||||||||
| Born | 1996 (age 28–29) Turkey | ||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||
| Sport | Women's Wheelchair Basketball & Women's Para-badminton | ||||||||
| Disability class | 3.5 | ||||||||
| Club | Düziçi ESK | ||||||||
Medal record
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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
Atay started playing wheelchair basketball and para-badminton in 2016. In basketball, she has disability class 3.5.She is a member of Düziçi Disabled Sports Club in Osmaniye.
She won second and third place titles in para-badminton in the singles and mixed team events at the Turkish Championships.
International career
Atay was selected to the Turkey women's national under-25 wheelchair basketball team, and played at the 2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship held in Suphanburi, Thailand.
She played for the Turkey women's national wheelchair basketball team at the European Wheelchair Basketball Championship in 2019 in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Personal life
Hatice was born in 1996 with congenital disorder of walking disability.
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.
She studied in the School of Physical Education and Sports at Osmaniye Korkut Ata University.
She works as a civil servant in a public institution like her spouse.
References
- ^ "Spor aşkı engelli çifti yaşama bağlıyor". Fanatik (in Turkish). 10 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
- ^ "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.