Ada Zehra Anlatıcı
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| Nationality | Turkish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 2007 (age 16–17) Turkey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.55 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 42 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Breaststroke, backstroke, freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Adapazarı Belediye Spor Klübü | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Halil İbrahim Aydın | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ada Zehra Anlatıcı (born 2007) is a Turkish World-champion swimmer with Mosaic Down syndrome. She is the holder of several world records.
Sport career
[edit]Anlatıcı started swimming sport at the age of ten inspired by her coach Halil İbrahim Aydın. Besides swimming, she took gymnastics exercise course twice a week. In swimming, she trains five days a week in the pool and two days on ground. She debuted internationally in 2019 at the 5th Open European DSISO Swimming Championships on Sardinia, Italy.[1]
She won two silver medals in the 50 m and 100 m breaststroke as well as two bronze medals in the 50 m and 100 m backstroke events at the SUDS Open Euro Trigames 2021 held in Ferrara, Italy. She broke also four world records in the 50 m, U16 100 m freestyle and open age 200 m breaststroke.[1][2] In 2023, she took the gold medal in the 200 m breaststroke, the silver medal in the 100 m freestyle and the bronze medal in the 50 m backstroke events at the 7th European Down Syndrome Swimming Championship in Padova, Italy.[3]
Personal life
[edit]Ada Zehra Anlatıcı was born in 2007 at Ankara Turkey.[1] She lives in Adapazarı and is a student of high school at the Doğa Koleji in Sakarya.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Rekortmen yüzücümüz anlatıyor: Suda olmak uçmak gibi..." Hürriyet (in Turkish). 24 October 2021. Retrieved 7 September 2023.
- ^ "Milli yüzücü Ada Zehra Anlatıcı'dan 4 dünya rekoru". TRT Haber (in Turkish). 14 October 2021. Retrieved 7 September 2023.
- ^ "Ada Zehra Anlatıcı dünya rekorunun sahibi oldu". TRT Haber (in Turkish). 6 September 2023. Retrieved 7 September 2023.
- ^ "Öğrencimiz Ada Zehra Anlatıcı, İtalya'da Dünya Rekoru Kırdı" (in Turkish). Doğa Koleji. Retrieved 7 September 2023.
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