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Nationality | Turkish | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Ağrı, Turkey | March 2, 1992||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Turkey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Para table tennis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Lider Engellier SC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Ilhami Kilinckaya | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Updated on 8 April 2019. |
Nesim Turan (born March 2, 1992) is a Turkish para table tennis player of class 4 and Paralympian. [1]
In 2014, he won the gold medal in the Individual C4 event and silver medal along with his teammates Abdullah Öztürk and Ali Öztürk in the Team C5 event at the World Para Table Tennis Championships in Beijing, China. [2] [3]
He took the gold medal with his teammates Ali Öztürk and Abdullah Öztürk in the Team C4 event at the 2016 Lignano Master Open in Italy. [4] [5]
He won the bronze medal in the Team C4–5 event at the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil along with Abdullah Öztürk and Ali Öztürk. [6]
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