Yiğit Caner Aydın

Yiğit Caner Aydın — Biography

Yiğit Caner Aydın was born on 23 August 1992 in Trabzon and moved to Istanbul with his family at the age of three. He began developing web projects in 2006 and earned a living from them, and in 2010 he enrolled in astronomy and space sciences at Istanbul University. In 2013 he suffered a neck injury in an accident at a university and has used a wheelchair since.

In 2016, on the recommendation of a fellow para archer, he took up archery and trained five to six hours a day at the Archery Foundation. Competing with the compound bow in the W1 category, he became a world champion with the Turkish team at the 2017 Beijing World Championships, won individual and team gold at the 2019 European Cup leg in Olbia, and repeated the team world title in 's-Hertogenbosch that year. At the 2022 Dubai World Championships he won both the individual title and the doubles title with Nihat Türkmenoğlu; the same year he took individual silver and doubles gold at the European Championships in Rome and individual gold at the Islamic Solidarity Games in Konya. In 2024 he secured a Paris Paralympic quota with Nil Mısır and took part in the Games. In 2025 he won silver at the world championships with Türkmenoğlu.

Away from the range, he presented Premier Panorama on S Sport from 2019, becoming Turkey's first television presenter who uses a wheelchair. In 2026 he became President of the Paralympic Athletes Council and gained sponsorship support from Tam Finans.