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Ebru Acer

Turkish para table tennis player (born 2002) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Ebru Acer (born 27 June 2002) is a Turkish European champion para table tennis player competing in the C11 disability class. Acer is the first ever Turkish para table tennis player to become a Paralympian.[1] She participated at the 2024 Paralympics in Paris, France, and won a bronze medal.[2]

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Acer started para table tennis playing with her family's encouragement in 2017.[3][1] She is a member of Şafaktepe GSK in Ankara.[3]

2019

In 2019, she took the silver medal in the singles C11 event at the European Para Table Tennis Championships in Helsingborg, Sweden.[4]

2022

She received the bronze medal with her teammate Sümeyra Türk in the doubles C11 event at the 2022 World Tennis Championships in Granada, Spain.[5] In June, she won gold medal at the 2022 ITTF Czech Para Open in Ostrava.[6] In July 2022, Acer took won two gold medal in the women's singles and women's open events at the VIRTUS European Summer Games held in Kraków, Poland.[7]

2023

In 2023, she took the silver medal at the 2023 ITTF Thailand Open Tennis Tournament in Bangkok.[8] She claimed the gold medal in the singles C11,[9] and another gold medal with her teammate Sümeyra Türk in the doubles C11 event at the 2023 Virtus Global Games in Vichy, France.[10] In the same year, she became champion at the 2023 European Para Table Tennis Championships in Sheffield, England.[11]

2024

In 2024, she took the silver medal at the 2024 ITTF Egypt Para Open in Giza,[12] the gold medal in the singles C11 event at the ITTF Slovenia Para Open Thermana Laško in Laško, Slovenia,[13] and another gold medal in the singles C11 event at the 2024 ITTF Czech Para Open in Ostrava, Czech Republic.[14]

Acer's champion title at the 2023 Global Games brought her the qualification to represent her country at the 2024 Paralympics in Paris, France.[15] She participated at the 2024 Paralympics in Paris, France, and won a bronze medal.[2] Acer is the first ever Turkish para table tennis player to become a Paralympian.[1]

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Personal life

Acer was born in 2002 into a family in poverty living in a slum of Ankara's Yenimahalle district.[3][1] In her school years, she was not successful. Currently, she is a student of sport coaching at Gazi University in Ankara.[1]

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