Öznur Cüre
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| Full name | Öznur Cüre Girdi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Turkish | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Öznur Cüre 1 October 1997 Kağıthane, Istanbul, Turkey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Education | Sport management | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Istanbul Aydın University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 78 kg (172 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Turkey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Paralympic archery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Compound bow W2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Okçuluk Vakfı SK | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Elanur Karakoç and Hasan Basri Hancı | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Öznur Cüre Girdi (née Öznur Cüre, born 1 October 1997) is a Turkish Paralympian archer competing in the women's compound bow W2 event. She is Paralympics, world and European champion, and holds a world record.
Sport career
During her physical therapy for paralysis in hospitals away from home, Cüre started playing sitting volleyball. She did not continue with this sport, however. After completing her physical therapy, she returned to Istanbul, and started her sport career in para archery in 2019, when she met para archer Bahattin Hekimoğlu, who invited her to join the Okçuluk Vakfı Sports Club.[1][2][3]
She is 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) tall at 78 kg (172 lb). She competes in the W2 wheelchair disability class of compound bow events. She is coached by Elanur Karakoç and Hasan Basri Hancı.[2]
2020
Cüre ranked fourth in the Compound Women Open Individual and Compound Open Mixed Team event with her teammate Murat Turan at 6th Fazza Para Archery World Ranking Tournament in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.[2][4]
She competed at the 2020 World Qualification Tournament in Nové Město nad Metují, Czech Republic, and qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.[1]
2021
At the 7th Fazza Para Archery World Ranking Tournament in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, she ranked fifth in the Compound Women Open Individual, and took the fourth place in the Compound Open Mixed Team event with Murat Turan.[5]
She represented Turkey at the delayed 2020 Summer Paralympics in the Individual compound open and Mixed team compound events.[6] She won the silver medal with her teammate Bülent Korkmaz in the Mixed team compound event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.[7]
2022
She and her teammate Sevgi Yorulmaz set a new world record with 1,344 points in the Compound Women Open Doubles event of the Ranking round at the 2022 World Para Archery Championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates[1] and won the gold medal in the final.[8]
2023
She clinched the world champion title in the Compound Women Open event at the 2023 World Para Archery Championships in Plzeň, Czech Republic.[1]
2024
She won a gold medal with her teammate Abdullah Yorulmaz in the mixed team event at the 8th Fazza Para Archery World Ranking Tournament in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in March 2024.[9] Cüre set a new world record with 704 points in the Ranking round of the Women's individual compound open event at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France, and qualified for the Elimination rounds taking the first place.[10] She claimed the gold medal in the Women's individual event at the 2024 Paris Paralympics[11] beating the Iranian Fatemeh Hemmati.
2025
She won the gold medal with her teammate Büşra Ün in the doubles open event at the 2025 World Para Archery Championships in Gwangju, South Korea.[12]
Personal life
Öznurr Cüre was born in Kağıthane district of Istanbul, Turkey on 1 October 1997.[1] She has two older sisters and a young brother.[3]
In 2014 returning from Ordu to Istanbul, her father Kasım Cüre caused a traffic accident with the car roll-over. Her mother was paralyzed down the neck, and she from the waist down.[1][2] She received physical therapy in Bolu and later in Düzce.[3]
She attended Istanbul Aydın University studying Sport management in the Faculty of Sports science.[1]
In February 2023, she married Fatih Girdi from Zonguldak,[13] and appended her spouse's family name Girdi to her surname.[1] The couple lives in Istanbul.[13]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Öznur Cüre Girsi" (in Turkish). Uludağ Ekonomi Zirvesi. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
- ^ a b c d "Öznur Cüre" (in Turkish). Türkiye Milli Paralimpik Komitesi. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
- ^ a b c "Öznur Cüre". Motto (in Turkish). Retrieved 1 September 2024.
- ^ "6th Fazza Para Archery World Ranking Tournament - Summary". World Atchery. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
- ^ "7th Fazza Para Archery World Ranking Tournament - Summary". World Atchery. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
- ^ "Cure, Oznur". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 29 August 2021. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
- ^ "Öznur Cüre ve Bülent Korkmaz'dan gümüş madalya". NTV Spor (in Turkish). 29 August 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
- ^ Tiryaki, Erkan (25 February 2022). "Para Okçuluk Dünya Şampiyonası'nda Öznur Cüre ve Sevgi Yorulmaz altın madalya kazandı". Anadolu News Agency (in Turkish). Retrieved 4 March 2022.
- ^ "Büyükşehir sporcusu Abdullah, Altın madalyanın sahibi oldu" (in Turkish). Denizli Büyükşehir Belediyesi. Retrieved 28 September 2025.
- ^ Tiryaki, Erkan (29 August 2024). "Milli para okçu Öznur Cüre Girdi, dünya ve paralimpik oyunlar rekoru kırarak birinci oldu". Anadolu News Agency (in Turkish). Retrieved 1 September 2024.
- ^ "Para Archery - Women's Individual Compound Open Gold Medal Match 57 CURE GIRDI Oznur vs HEMMATI Fatemeh Results". Paris 2024 Paralympics. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
- ^ "Okçulukta Makaralı Yay Kadın Takımı dünya şampiyonu! Gururlandırdılar". Fanatik (in Turkish). 27 September 2025. Retrieved 27 September 2025.
- ^ a b "Zonguldak'in gururu oldu". Aba Medya (in Turkish). 31 August 2024. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
External links
- Öznur Cüre at World Archery
- Öznur Cüre at the International Paralympic Committee
- Öznur Cüre at the Türkiye Milli Paralimpik Komitesi (in Turkish)