Büşra Ün
| Full name | Büşra Fatma Ün | ||||||||||||||
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| Country (sports) | Turkey | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 May 1994 İzmir, Turkey | ||||||||||||||
| Plays | Right handed | ||||||||||||||
| Official website | www | ||||||||||||||
| Singles | |||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | 30 (29 April 2013) | ||||||||||||||
| Current ranking | 33 | ||||||||||||||
| Doubles | |||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | 26 (13 May 2013) | ||||||||||||||
| Current ranking | 35 | ||||||||||||||
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Büşra Fatma Ün (born 19 May 1994) is a Turkish female wheelchair archer and former Paralympic wheelchair tennis player.[1][2][3]
Early years
Büşra Ün was born in İzmir. At the age of six-and-half-months, her parents noticed that she has no feeling at her feet. She was diagnosed with neuroblastoma having a malignant tumor in her right abdomen. After one-and-half-year-long chemotherapy and two surgeries, the tumor was removed. However, due to damaged nerves, she became paraplegic.[4][5]
Currently, she is a student of sport management at Ege University in İzmir.[5]
Wheelchair tennis career
She began with table tennis playing, and then switched over to wheelchair tennis in February 2009 as she was studying in the high school's fourth grade in Buca.[4][5][6] She plays right handed.[1]
She is Turkish champion in the women's and junior's category. In 2010, she won the Balkan Championship. She is on the third place in the world's under-18 ranking. In the world's list, she climbed up to the 30th place.[4]
Ün obtained a quota spot at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is so the first ever Turkish wheelchair tennis player to represent her country at the Paralympics.[5][6]
After the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, she announced that she ended her wheelchair tennis career.[7]
Wheelchair archery career
After quitting wheelchair tennis playing, Ün got interested in wheelchair archery, and started her new career in 2022.[7] In April 2025, she competed at the 2nd leg of the Turkish Para Archery Cup in Antalya, and captured the gold medal defeating Öznur Cire in the finals of the individual compound open event.[7][8][9]
She won the gold medal with her teammate Öznur Cüre in the doubles open event at the 2025 World Para Archery Championships in Gwangju, South Korea.[3]
References
- ^ a b "Busra Un". ITF Tennis. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
- ^ "Büşra Ün Yeri geldi duvara karşı tek başıma oynadım". Cumhuriyet (in Turkish). 9 August 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
- ^ a b "Okçulukta Makaralı Yay Kadın Takımı dünya şampiyonu! Gururlandırdılar". Fanatik (in Turkish). 27 September 2025. Retrieved 27 September 2025.
- ^ a b c "Milli tenisçimiz" (in Turkish). Büşra Ün. Archived from the original on 20 September 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
- ^ a b c d Çiftdalöz, Serhan (7 July 2016). "Fıtratında pes etmek yok". Sabah (in Turkish). Retrieved 26 August 2016.
- ^ a b "Büşra Ün, Rio Paralimpik Oyunlarında". Milliyet (in Turkish). 20 June 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
- ^ a b c Korkmaz, Ali (14 October 2024). "Paralimpik sporcu Büşra Ün, tenisin ardından başladığı okçulukta Türkiye şampiyonluğuna ulaştı". Anadolu News Agency (in Turkish). Retrieved 27 September 2025.
- ^ "Büşra Ün Türkiye Şampiyonu" (in Turkish). Göztepe SK. 23 April 2025. Retrieved 27 September 2025.
- ^ Avşar, Halil İbrahim (30 April 2025). "Para Okçuluk Türkiye Kupası'nın 2. ayağı Antalya'da düzenlendi". Anadolu News Agency (in Turkish). Retrieved 27 September 2025.
External links
- Busra Un at the International Paralympic Committee
- Büşra Fatma Ün at the Türkiye Milli Paralimpik Komitesi (in Turkish)