Turkish para table tennis player (born 2002)
Ebru Acer (born 2002) is a Turkish European champion para table tennis olayer competing in the C11 disability class. She qualified to participate at the 2024 Paralympics in Paris, France.
Sport career
Acer started para table tennis playing with her family's encouragement in 2017.[1][2] She is a member of Şafaktepe GSK in Ankara.[1]
In 2019, she took the silver medal in the singles C11 event at the European Para Table Tennis Championships in Helsingborg, Sweden.[3]
She received the bronze medal with her teammate Sümeyra Türk in the doubles C11 event at the 2022 World Tennis Championships in Granada, Spain.[4]
She claimed the gold medal in the singles C11,[5] and another gold medal with her teammate Sümeyra Türk in the doubles C11 event at the 2023 Virtus Global Games in Vichy, France.[6]
She became champion at the 2023 European Para Table Tennis Championships in Sheffield, England.[7]
She took the silver medal at the 2024 ITTF Egypt Para Open in Giza.[8]
Acer's champion title at the 2023 Global Games brought her the
qualification to represent her country at the 2024 Paralympics in Paris, France.[9] Acer is the first ever Turkish para table table player to become a Paralympian.[2]
She took the gold medal in the singles C11 event at the 2024 ITTF Czech Para Open in Ostrava, Czech Republic.[10]
Personal life
Acer was born in 2002 into a family in poverty living in a slum of Ankara's Yenimahalle district.[1][2] In her school years, she was not successful. Currently, she is a student of sport coaching at Gazi University in Ankara.[2]
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