Yiğit Caner Aydın
{{Short description|Turkish para-archer (born 1992)}}
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| birth_place = Trabzon, Turkey
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| website = {{URL|https://yigitcaneraydin.com/en/}}
| sport = Paralympic archery
| disability = Paraplegia
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| event = Compound bow W1
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| rank = 2nd (5 September 2022)
| highestranking = 2nd (5 May 2019)
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{{MedalSport | Men's archery}} Compound bow W1
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{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}
{{MedalGold| 2022 Dubai |W1 Ind.}}
{{MedalGold| 2022 Dubai |W1 Doubles}}
{{MedalGold| 2019 s-Hertogenbosch |W1 Open Team}}
{{MedalGold| 2017 Beijing |W1 Open Team}}
{{MedalSilver|2023 Plzeň|Men W1 Doubles}}
{{MedalCompetition|European Championships}}
{{MedalGold| 2022 Rome |W1 Doubles}}
{{MedalSilver| 2022 Rome |W1 Ind.}}
{{MedalCompetition|Islamic Solidarity Games}}
{{MedalGold| 2021 Konya |W1 Ind.}}
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Yiğit Caner Aydın (born 23 August 1992) is a Turkish world-champion para-archer competing in the Men's compound bow W1 event.
Early life
Yiğit Caner Aydın was born in Trabzon, northeastern Turkey on 23 August 1992. He moved to Istanbul with his family at the age of three.
In 2006, he started to develop web projects, and earning his living. In 2010, he entered Faculty of Astronomy and Space Science at Istanbul University. By participating in social responsibility projects, he aimed to help children living in disadvantaged regions develop their social skills and themselves.
In 2013, as he was sitting in a lounge at his friend's school, a heavy stand fell over his head, and fractured his neck at C6 level. He was eight months in the hospital following six days of intensive care stay. He became paralyzed from the chest down. He underwent physical therapy for two and half years, at the end of which he was finally able to use wheelchair.
Sports career
In 2016, Aydın started para archery after he met Naci Yenier, a para archer, through his father. He took part in trainings at Archery Foundation. With the money he saved before the accident, he bought archery equipment. Supported by his parents, he was training 5–6 hours a day.
He was selected to the national team. Points he collected at international competitions enabled him to participate at the World Archery Championships in 2017. He and his two teammates took the gold medal in the Men W1 Open Team event at the 2017 World Para Archery Championships in Beijing, China. He was part of team setting a World record in the 50m event with 1,967 points. He won the gold medal in the Men W1 Open event and another gold medal in the Men W1 Open Team event with two teammates at the First Leg of the 2019 Para Archery European Cup held in Olbia, Sardinia, Italy. The Turkish team set a World record with 215 points. At the 2019 World Para Archery Championships in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, he won the gold medal in the Men W1 Open Team, and repeated the World Team record . He became champion in the Men W1 event at the Para-Archery World Ranking Tournament and Final Paralympic Qualification 2021 held in Nové Město nad Metují, Czech Republic. He won two gold medals at the 2022 World Para Archery Championships held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, one in the Men W1 event and another in the Men W1 Doubles event together with his teammate Nihat Türkmenoğlu. He won silver medal in the Men W1 and gold medal in the Men W1 Doubles event at Para-Archery European Championships at the 2022 Rome. One week after this competition, he became champion in the Men W1 event at the 2021 Konya.
See also
- Curtis Mayfield, who was paralyzed after a similar accident
References
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{{cite news |url=https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/sporarena/yigit-caner-aydin-asla-pes-etme-daima-ilham-ol-41070156 |newspaper=Hürriyet |title=Yiğit Caner Aydın: Asla pes etme, daima ilham ol! |author=Saboviç, Fatih |date=2 January 2019 |language=tr |accessdate=8 March 2022}}
{{cite news |url=https://www.trtspor.com.tr/haber/diger-sporlar/millilerden-12-madalya-259756.html |newspaper=TRT Spor |title=Millilerden 12 madalya |date=7 August 2022 |language=tr}}
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Category:Sportspeople from Trabzon
Category:Istanbul University alumni
Category:Paralympic archers for Turkey
Category:Paralympic wheelchair archers
Category:Islamic Solidarity Games gold medalists for Turkey
Category:Islamic Solidarity Games medalists in archery
Category:Medalists at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games