Education
After all, she completed her education with honors in business administration from the Bilkent University in 2004.
After all, she completed her education with honors in business administration from the Bilkent University in 2004.
In 1992, at the age of eleven, she was paralyzed following a traffic accident. In the same year, she was invited to an archery competition where she got interested and decided soon to practice that sport. She practised in the basement garage of her apartment building, with the permission of the neighbors.
Only two years of practice and competition experience in national tournaments, Gizem Girişmen had 3rd place (ARW2 Recurve Female) at 2006 EPC Archery European Championships held in the Czechoslovakian Republic, which was her first international tournament.
Following year, she got the first place (FITA Round) at the 2007 IPC Archery World Championships in Cheongju, South of Korea. In 2008, she became second in the European Disabled Archery Grand Prix held between July 12–18 in the United Kingdom.
She has been ranked Number One Archer in the World for Women"s Indiana. Recurve-W1/W2 since 2007.
Gizem Girişmen is also the Turkish record holder of 30-50-60-70 meters, FITA, 70 mt round and Olymp R Match for ARW2 female category.
She competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in the women"s individual recurve W1/W2 event, where she lost to her Iranian opponent in the quarterfinals. She was also part of the Turkish team at the women"s team recurve event, which became 5th losing to the team from Italy in the quarterfinals.