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| Born | 27 June 2002 (age 22) Yenimahalle, Ankara, Turkey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Şafaktepe GSK | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ebru Acer (born 27 June 2002) is a Turkish European champion para table tennis player competing in the C11 disability class. Acer is the first ever Turkish para table tennis player to become a Paralympian. [1] She participated at the 2024 Paralympics in Paris, France, and won a bronze medal. [2]
Acer started para table tennis playing with her family's encouragement in 2017. [3] [1] She is a member of Şafaktepe GSK in Ankara. [3]
In 2019, she took the silver medal in the singles C11 event at the European Para Table Tennis Championships in Helsingborg, Sweden. [4]
She received the bronze medal with her teammate Sümeyra Türk in the doubles C11 event at the 2022 World Tennis Championships in Granada, Spain. [5] In June, she won gold medal at the 2022 ITTF Czech Para Open in Ostrava. [6] In July 2022, Acer took won two gold medal in the women's singles and women's open events at the VIRTUS European Summer Games held in Kraków, Poland. [7]
In 2023, she took the silver medal at the 2023 ITTF Thailand Open Tennis Tournament in Bangkok. [8] She claimed the gold medal in the singles C11, [9] and another gold medal with her teammate Sümeyra Türk in the doubles C11 event at the 2023 Virtus Global Games in Vichy, France. [10] In the same year, she became champion at the 2023 European Para Table Tennis Championships in Sheffield, England. [11]
In 2024, she took the silver medal at the 2024 ITTF Egypt Para Open in Giza, [12] the gold medal in the singles C11 event at the ITTF Slovenia Para Open Thermana Laško in Laško, Slovenia, [13] and another gold medal in the singles C11 event at the 2024 ITTF Czech Para Open in Ostrava, Czech Republic. [14]
Acer's champion title at the 2023 Global Games brought her the qualification to represent her country at the 2024 Paralympics in Paris, France. [15] She participated at the 2024 Paralympics in Paris, France, and won a bronze medal. [2] Acer is the first ever Turkish para table tennis player to become a Paralympian. [1]
Acer was born in 2002 into a family in poverty living in a slum of Ankara's Yenimahalle district. [3] [1] In her school years, she was not successful. Currently, she is a student of sport coaching at Gazi University in Ankara. [1]
