Çiğdem Dede
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Nationality | Turkish | ||||||||||||||
Born | Gaziantep, Turkey | 27 February 1980||||||||||||||
Weight | 43 kg (95 lb) (2012) | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Powerlifting | ||||||||||||||
Event | 44 kg | ||||||||||||||
Club | Ankara Guven Spor | ||||||||||||||
Coached by | Emrah Arslan | ||||||||||||||
Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
Paralympic finals | 2012 | ||||||||||||||
Personal best | 106.0 kg (2012) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Çiğdem Dede (born 27 February 1980, in Gaziantep, Turkey) is a Turkish powerlifter competing in the −44 kg division. She won the silver medal at the 2012 Paralympics. She is a dwarf athlete of Ankara Guven Spor, where she is coached by Mustafa Doğan.[1][2]
She became paralyzed at the age of six due to wrong injection given to her leg.[3]
Career history
[edit]Çiğdem Dede is high school graduate.[1] She began powerlifting by chance, encouraged by a weightlifting coach in 2009, and then received the support of her family. That year, Dede ranked fourth at the IPC World Championship. She became national champion in 2010 and 2011. At the 2011 Fazaa International Powerlifting Tournament in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, she took the gold medal lifting 100.0 kg.[2][4][5]
Achievements
[edit]Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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2011 | Fazaa International Powerlifting Tournament | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 1st | −44 kg | 100 kg |
2012 | Summer Paralympics | London, United Kingdom | 2nd | −44 kg | 100 kg |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Paralimpik/Halter-Çiğdem Dede" (in Turkish). GSB. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
- ^ a b "Çiğdem Dede". BP Londorn 2012. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
- ^ Özdil, Yılmaz (29 August 2012). "Eli ayağı tutan acizler ülkesinin... İnsanüstü yetenekli milli takımı". Hürriyet (in Turkish). Retrieved 6 September 2012.
- ^ "Engelli halterciler, Dubai'den madalyalarla döndü". Zaman Spor (in Turkish). 16 March 2011. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
- ^ "IPC Powerlifting Rankings Official World Rankings 2012 Period: 2012-01-01 to 2012-12-31 Women's Up to 44.00kg". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
External links
[edit]- Çiğdem Dede at the International Paralympic Committee
- Çiğdem Dede at the Türkiye Milli Paralimpik Komitesi (in Turkish)
- 1980 births
- Living people
- Turkish powerlifters
- Female powerlifters
- Paralympic powerlifters for Turkey
- Paralympic medalists in powerlifting
- Paralympic silver medalists for Turkey
- Powerlifters at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Sportspeople with dwarfism
- Sportspeople from Gaziantep
- 21st-century Turkish sportswomen
- European Paralympic medalist stubs
- Turkish sportspeople stubs
- European weightlifting biography stubs
- Asian weightlifting biography stubs