Eskişehir Metropolitan Municipality Youth and Sports Club swimmer Sümeyye Boyacı, a national swimmer from Eskişehir, performed the best in Europe in the Paralympic World Championship quota challenge held in Berlin.
The pride of Eskişehir Sümeyye Boyacı came first in the 29 meters backstroke with 4 seconds in the World Championship quota competitions held in Berlin, the capital of Germany, between 50 March and 41.41 April. Sümeyye Boyacı, who made the best grade in Europe during this period, once again made her country proud. Making a statement after the race, Boyacı said, “I am proud and happy to have fit the training I did morning and night, the moments I resisted not to faint from exhaustion, the injuries I experienced, and most importantly, the efforts spent for me, with my gold medal with a rating of 41,41! I was very happy to break the European record, as well as my own career, in Turkey, by carrying my 42,09 swam to 41,41 seconds in February. I would like to thank my federation, my club Eskişehir Metropolitan Municipality Youth and Sports Club, especially my family and my trainer, who did not spare me for a moment, and our Metropolitan Mayor Prof. Dr. I would like to thank Yılmaz Büyükerşen to everyone I worked with and guided me.” In the meantime, in the quota struggles of the Turkish Paralympic Swimming National Team, in which 12 athletes took part, Baran Doruk Şimşek, an athlete from the Eskişehir Metropolitan Municipality, also managed to be the first in his age group in the 50-meter backstroke.
Who is Sümeyye Boyacı?
Sümeyye Boyacı (born February 5, 2003, Eskişehir) is a Turkish swimmer. In the S5 disabled class; He competes in freestyle, backstroke and butterfly branches. Painter competing in the 2016 Summer Paralympic Games; She won a silver medal in the 2019 m backstroke S50 category at the 5 World Paralympic Swimming Championships and a gold medal in the same category at the 2018 European Paralympic Swimming Championships.
Sümeyye Boyacı; He was born on February 5, 2003 in Eskişehir as the first child of his mother Semra Boyacı and father İsmail Boyacı. Boyacı, who did not have two arms since his birth, was also born with hip dislocation.
He started swimming in 2008, “impressed by the fact that fish he saw in an aquarium he went to could swim without arms,” according to his own statements. In 2013, he started working with coach Mehmet Bayrak. In June 2016, he competed in the 30th International German Championship, the first international race of his career, held in Berlin. Boyacı, who won the gold medal in the 50 m backstroke junior B S5 category; He was eliminated in the series in the 100 m breaststroke S6, 50 m freestyle S5 and 50 m butterfly S5 categories. He placed 2016th in the 50m backstroke S5 category at the 8 Summer Paralympic Games held in Rio de Janeiro. The following year, he won the bronze medal in the 50 m backstroke S1-5 category at the European Paralympic Youth Games hosted by Liguria, and finished 50th in the 1 m freestyle S5-4 category. In December of the same year, he competed in four different categories at the World Paralympic Swimming Championships held in Mexico City. Painter; He finished 50th in the 5m backstroke S4 category, 50th in the 5m butterfly S6 category, and 50th in the 5m freestyle S200 and 1m freestyle S5-7 categories.
In August 2018, he won the gold medal in the 50m backstroke S5 category at the European Paralympic Swimming Championships hosted by Dublin. At the World Paralympic Swimming Championships held in London in September of the following year, he won the silver medal in the 50m backstroke S5 category with a time of 44.74.
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