Residence Antalya, Turkey Club Vedat Erbay SK Event Recurve bow | Sport Paralympic archery Coached by Vedat Erbay | |
Born September 7, 1982 (age 34) ( 1982-09-07 ) | ||
Zehra Özbey Torun (born September 7, 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.
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Early life
Zehra Özbay Torun was born with disability on September 7, 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.