'Golden girl' of gymnastics sets bar higher after World Cup debut

Ayşe Begüm Onbaşı, named the "Brilliant Girl" for her achievement in acrobatic, is presently all adult and made her World Cup debut a month ago. It was a smooth and effective progress that brought the 18-year-old national acrobat her first gold decoration in the competition in Portugal. Onbaşı is currently hoping to secure a second gold in her global youngster vocation - this time at the European Gymnastics Championship to be held in Azerbaijan one month from now.

The youthful competitor prepares hard in the place where she grew up in western Turkey's Manisa with the goal that she "can wave the Turkish banner" again at a universal competition. Onbaşı took up vaulting at 6 years old and was 8 years of age when she began getting decorations from neighborhood competitions. She made her universal introduction two years after the fact and has collected in excess of 100 decorations, generally gold, in her short vocation from that point forward. Her genuine leap forward, however, came in Portugal's Cantanhede in March when she outscored the field for imaginativeness and execution and piled on 20.70 focuses in the last, in the wake of fixing in the capability round. Addressing Anadolu Agency (AA), Onbaşı said for the current year was significant in light of the fact that she did the change to the senior class. "This offers me a chance to contend in progressively global and European occasions. I have new opponents and new difficulties and this energizes me," she said. She is upbeat for her "great begin" in Portugal however lets it be known was "unforeseen" however she "buckled down."

The youthful acrobat says she is still "toward the start of a lengthy, difficult experience" including that severe preparing and high inspiration figured in her prosperity. "My age is additionally a major preferred standpoint and I expect more titles on the off chance that I can keep my dimension of preparing," she included. "My family and companions are strong. I am as yet a secondary school understudy and am concentrating for college confirmation tests. I need to study and prepare in the meantime. The vaulting gave me a method for control and it causes me juggle studies and preparing," Onbaşı said. The European title in Azerbaijan will be a test and an open door for Onbaşı as she will contend in two distinct classes, ladies' and sets with individual tumbler Mehmet Ercoş. "I have raised my desires high and need to achieve the finals in any event," she said. Mehmet Ali Ekin filled in as her coach for a long time and recalls the time they initially met. "I saw something in Ayşe Begüm when she was 10. I saw she had a brilliant future in front of her," he said. "It is a significant achievement to win in excess of 100 decorations at such a youthful age. She used to contend with her friends however at this point she has achieved the alliance of monsters. It is unquestionably progressively troublesome, with all the more testing moves. She will go up against a lot more seasoned, experienced adversaries. In any case, she substantiated herself [in Portugal]. She has an exceptionally uncommon range of abilities and I trust we will see increasingly Turkish gymnasts acquiring decorations to our nation the future," said Ekin.