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Sümeyye Boyacı

Sümeyye Boyacı

Turkish Paralympic swimmer (born 2003)

Sümeyye Boyacı (born 5 February 2003) is a Turkish Paralympic swimmer. She competes in the disability category of S5 in freestyle, backstroke and butterfly, specializing in sprint events.

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Personal history

Sümeyye Boyacı was born as her parents' first child in Eskişehir, Turkey on 5 February 2003.[1][2] She has no arms (bilateral congenital upper extremity agenesis) and a hip dislocation as a birth defect.[2][3]

She was schooled in a special primary school in her hometown, where she learned writing with her foot in the first grade.[4]

Painting career

At the age of four and half, she began painting with her foot.[3] She made a painting for Altın Balık ("The Golden Fish"), the Turkish translation of the Russian book of tale (Russian: Cказка о рыбаке и рыбке) by Alexander Pushkin.[5][6] Her painting was presented to the Turkish President Abdullah Gül for his official visit to Russia.[5] In April 2009, her watercolor paintings were on display in a personal exhibition in Moscow, Russia. Boyacı gifted one of her paintings to the First Lady of Russia Svetlana Medvedeva in 2010.[4][7] In 2014, she participated at an exhibition in Eskişehir for traditional Turkish handicrafts with her paper marblings.[8]

Swimming career

Boyacı decided to begin with swimming as she carefully watched the fish in her aquarium, and discovered that they swim without arms.[3] Boyacı began with swimming in 2008. She has been coached by Mehmet Bayrak since 2012.[2]

In June 2016, she competed at the 30th International German Championships in Berlin.[9] She internationally debuted in the senior class in 2016.[2] She was qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics, and represented her country in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She failed to capture any medal.[2] She took part at the 2017 European Para Youth Games held in Liguria, Italy, and won the bronze medal in the 50 m Backstroke S1-5 event.[2]

In 2019, she captured the gold medal in the 50 m Backstroke S5 event at the World Para Swimming World Series held in Indianapolis, USA with a time of 45.28.[10] At the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships in London, U.K., she won the silver medal in the 50 m backstroke S5 event with a time of 44.74.[11]

The 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in) tall para swimmer at 49 kg (108 lb) is a member of Eskişehir Metropolitan Municipality Sports Club.[2] Boyacı's disability swimming classification is S5 due to her limb deficiency as a birth defect.[3][2]

Achievements

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References

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    "Efsane değil gerçek deniz kızı". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 8 November 2008. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
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    "6 yaşındaki Sümeyye'nin inanılmaz azmi". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 16 September 2009. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
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    "Küçük Sümeyye'den Cumhurbaşkanı Gül'e davet". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 27 February 2009. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
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    Ataklı, Can (22 January 2017). "Açgözlülük üzerine bir Rus masalı". Sözcü (in Turkish). Retrieved 3 January 2018.
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    "Medvedev bile ona hayran". Vatan (in Turkish). 19 January 2010. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
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    "Ayakları İle Ebru Yapan Sümeyye Boyacı Vali Tuna'yı Makamında Ziyaret Etti". Milliyet (in Turkish). 17 November 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
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    "Protokoll 30. Internationale Deutsche Meisterschaften" (PDF) (in German). Internationale Deutsche Meisterschaft. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
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    "Sümeyye Boyacı'dan altın madalya". CNN Tğrk (in Turkish). 8 April 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
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    "Sümeyye Boyacı dünya ikincisi oldu". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 14 September 2019. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
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    "SSwimming Competition". 2017 European Para Youth Games. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
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    "Turkey embraces champion Sümeyye". Hürriyet Daily News. 19 August 2018. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
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    "Sümeyye Boyacı wins gold for Turkey at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships". balkaneu.com. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
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    Gazioğlu, Fatih (13 June 2022). "Sümeyye Boyacı ve Sevilay Öztürk'ten Para Yüzme Dünya Şampiyonası'nda madalya". Anadolu News Agency (in Turkish). Retrieved 24 June 2022.
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