A ceremony was also held for the Paralympic Archery National Team and the Men’s Wheelchair Basketball Men’s National Team.
?Ercan ATA – Oğuz DEMİR / ANKARA, – Athletes who won medals with the Goalball Women’s National Team, which became the champion in the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games, returned home.
National convoy at Ankara Esenboğa Airport sport Services General Manager Mehmet Baykan, Turkey Visually Impaired Sports Federation President Hasan Sayyidan, Ankara Youth and Sports Provincial Director Mustafa Çelik and their families welcomed. Our Women’s National Team of Goalball won the gold medal at the Tokyo Paralympic Games. It both won the gold medal and retained its title. Of course, it is a great success to win a championship, but it is a much more important success to carry it to the next championships and protect the title. That’s why we congratulate our friends Congratulations. We hope that this success will be repeated in Paris in 2024. Our women’s National Team of Goalball players got used to it now. In particular, I congratulate our Federation of the Visually Impaired, which participated in the Paralympic Games with 21 athletes, for their success in 2 bronze medals in judo and 1 gold medal in goalball. highest in history Reaching the number of dahlias with 13 medals, we have reached the highest number of medals in our sports history with 15 medals in the Paralympic Games of our country’s athletes. As befits this, our athletes, coaches and managers see it both in receptions and in the media. Hopefully they are happy. Hopefully, they can see the moral reward of their success in this way. We welcome our Archery Paralympic National Team athletes. Taking part in these games is as important as getting a medal. Our basketball team played very successful matches. In the 2020 Olympic Games, both our and their medal expectations were high. As a result of tooth-to-tooth struggles, a national team emerged that fought head-to-head with the giant countries of the world. Our archers achieved great success in the games. Important results were realized with the number of medals. I congratulate both our athletes, our technical staff and our federations participating in the games for the results achieved. I wish them continued success.” ALTUNOLUK: WE WILL BRING THE GOLD MEDAL IN 2024 National athlete Sevda Altunoluk, the top scorer in golf, stated that they were happy with the interest and said, “We are very happy. We are very pleased with your interest. We won the gold medal, but we won as the whole of Turkey. Thank you very much. We went through very difficult times. We worked hard because we used to sleep and wake up dreaming of it. We were able to win a gold medal with the support of our technical team, teachers, managers and ministry. I hope that together with our young friends, we will bring a gold medal in 2024 and we will crown it in a bigger way, I hope.” SAYYIDAN: THE VISUALLY IMPOSSIBLE ASSOCIATION HAS GRATEFULLY RELATED Emphasizing that they won a gold medal at the 2016 Paralympic Games, President of the Turkish Blind Sports Federation Hasan Sayyidan said, “The following years are very important for us. it’s been hard. All of our athletes, except for one of our team that won a gold medal in 2016, left the sport. So we restructured our team. Today we see the products of restructuring. When I was going to my children, I said that you go there to write history, not to live it. My children really came to write history. I am so happy. They made our country very happy. They made the visually impaired community very happy. Of course, our children’s efforts and efforts, as well as the support of our ministry and general directorate, contributed greatly to this success. Therefore, I would like to thank everyone who contributed to this success,” he said. AKIN: WE INVITE OUR DISABLED BROTHERS TO SPORTS Wheelchair Basketball Team Head Coach Ahmet Akın, inviting disabled individuals to sports, said, “This is a welcome we have been waiting for for years, so I thank you. I am sure that we will pave the way for our disabled brothers and sisters who will come after us. We invite them to sports. I would like to thank all my fellow athletes, technical committees and federations for their efforts.”
Emphasizing that they received the medals they longed for, Sadık Savaş, the Team Captain of the Physically Disabled Archery National Team, said, “We had a good competition. All our branches did their best. We also played good matches as the archery team. We got good results and medals. This time we got the medals that we missed before. “We have achieved it, thank God. We thank our state for being with sports and athletes. We believed and we will continue to work for better results,” he said.
