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Zehra Özbey Torun (born 7 September 1982) is a Turkish female para-archer competing in the women's recurve bow standing event. A former wheelchair basketball player, she competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
Results
Paralympic Games
7 Individual Recurve - Open 2016 Rio de Janeiro, BRA
World Championships
2 Team Recurve - Open 2019 's-Hertogenbosch, NED
9 Individual Recurve - Open 2019 's-Hertogenbosch, NED
9 Individual Recurve - Open 2017 Beijing, CHN
European Championships
6 Individual Recurve - Open 2018 Plzen, CZE
Early life
Zehra Özbay Torun was born with disability on 7 September 1982.
She lives in Antalya, Turkey, where she moved to after her marriage. She has a baby and works in the state service.
Sporting career
Zehra Özbay Torun began her sports career with Wheelchair DanceSport. She than switched over to wheelchair basketball and played in the national team. She took a break in her active sports life as she learned her pregnancy after the marriage. Nine months after giving birth to a baby, she returned to sports. She switched over to wheelchair archery in order to have more free time for her baby. After a brief training by Vedat Erbay in the Vedat Erbay SK, she was admitted to the Turkey women's national wheelchair archery team.
She competed at the 2016 European Qualifier held in Saint-Jean-de-Monts, France, and obtained a quota spot for 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.