Nationality Turkish Sport Para table tennis Coached by Ilhami Kilinckaya | Country Turkey Club Diyanet Sport Club Name Kubra Ocsoy | |
Born 20 January 1994 (age 30) ( 1994-01-20 ) Sorgun, Yozgat Province, Turkey | ||
Kübra Öçsoy Korkut Documentary
Kübra Öçsoy Korkut, aka Kübra Korkut, (born Kübra Öçsoy on 20 January 1994 in Sorgun, Yozgat Province, Turkey) is a Turkish female para table tennis player of class 7 and Paralympian.
She lost one arm and both legs due to injuries sustained from an electric shock accident, which occurred as she was four years old. Since her age of eight, Korkut has prosthesis in her legs. Encouraged by her teachers, she began para table tennis playing.
Korkut took part at the 2012 Summer Paralympics competing in the women's individual class 7 event, at which she became 4th after losing 1–3 to her opponent from Ukraine in the bronze medal match. Furthermore, she was part of the Turkish team with her teammate Neslihan Kavas, who became silver medalist in the women's team class 6–10 event after losing to the Chinese team in the final.
She captured the silver medal in the individual C7 event at the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.