National swimmer Mohamed Painter from Turkey was chosen role model Barbie 2020

BOTH SPORTSBOR AND ARTIST

“I have no arms, but I have wings that no one has ever seen,” said the national swimmer. Sümeyye BoyacıThis year, he was chosen as a role model for Turkey and the Barbie doll was made. Born in 2003, Boyacı represents our country as a paralympic swimmer. Specializing in the events of the departation, freestyle, backstroke and butterfly swimming also compete in the S5 handicapped category. Boyacı, who has a congenital hip dislocation with no arms, learned to write with his feet in the first grade. As he carefully watched the fish in the aquarium, he discovered that they were swimming without sleeves and decided to start swimming.

In the European Paralympic Swimming Championship hosted by Dublin in 2018, he won a gold medal in the 50-meter backstroke S5 category with a degree of 45.21. At the World Paralympic Swimming Championship held in London, the 50-meter backstroke reached the silver medal with a 44.74 degree in the S5 category.

Sümeyye Boyacı, who started painting with her feet at the age of four and a half, painted for Altın Balık, a Turkish translation of a Russian fairy tale book written by Alexander Pushkin. In April 2009, her watercolor paintings took part in a personal exhibition held in Moscow. Boyacı presented one of his paintings to Svetlana Medvedeva, First Lady of Russia in 2010. She participated in the traditional Turkish handicrafts exhibition in Eskişehir with her marbling art in 2014.