Havva Elmalı

Havva Elmalı (born 12 August 2003) is a Turkish female para athlete competing in the T11 disability class middle-distance events of 400m and 1500m.

The foster family became impressed when they watched a visually impaired athlete became a world champion.

[2] Three months after she started wit athletics, Elmalı participated in a competition, and finished first, which motivated her for further training.

[3] Elmalı became champion in the 1500m T11 event at the 2019 IPC World Junior APara Athletics Championships held in Notvil, Switzerland.

[2][3][4] She won the bronze medal in the 400m T11 event of the 2021 World Para Athletics European Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland.