29 Women Win Medal in Deaflympics

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Ranking fourth with 46 medals in 2017 Deaflympics, Turkey holds 128 gold medals in total so far. 29 women athletes from Turkey won medals this year.

In the games of 23rd Summer Deaflympics, the olympics for athletes with impaired hearing founded by The International Committee of Sports for the Deaf played between July 18 - 30 in Samsun province, Turkey has ranked fourth winning 46 medals in total including 17 gold, 7 silver and 22 bronze medals.

Russia has ranked first in the Deaflympics with 199 medals including 856 gold medals, followed by Ukraine with 99 medals 22 of which are gold medals and South Korea with 52 medals 18 of which are gold medals.

29 women athletes won medals

In Turkey, nine women won medals in individual games and 20 women in team-games.

Individual games:

Gamze Keresteci in Karate (Gold)

Selver Şeker in Tae kwon do (Gold)

Merve Yazıcı in Tae kwon do (Gold)

Ayşe Gül Gökkaya in Tae kwon do (Silver)

Ayşe Kesiktaş in Judo (Bronze)

Rümeysa Akyüzlü Karate (Bronze)

Melek Dereköy Karate (Bronze)

Kader Işık Karate (Bronze)

Aslıhan Savan in Tae kwon do (Bronze)

Team games:

Ayşe Gül Gökkaya / Aslıhan Savan / Elif Yenigün Tae kwon do (Gold)

Dilek Altın / Münife Aydın / İpek Erçin / Didem Erel / Ayşe Kesiktaş / Zehra Özbey / Serpil Yavuz in Judo (Bronze)

Kader Işık / Rezzan Işık / Zeliha Işık; Rümeysa Akyüzlü / Melek Dereköy / Melek Morgil / Sena Sönmez / İrem Topaloğlu in Karate (Bronze)

Tutem Banguoğlu / Asuman Şakı in Tennis (Bronze).

(NV/DG)