Öznur Cüre, who was paralyzed from the waist down after her father's car crashed, said, "Thanks to the archery I took up at the invitation of Bahattin Hekimoğlu, who was also paralyzed, I became a national athlete, graduated from high school, and was accepted into university."

National archer Öznur Cüre, who won silver in the compound bow open class mixed team category at the Tokyo Paralympics with her partner Bülent Korkmaz, told Hürriyet how she brightened her darkened world with sport in a single day. Cüre, who explained that they had an accident while returning to Istanbul from Ordu in 2014 in a car driven by her father, Kasım Cüre, said, "Six people were traveling at 120 kilometers per hour when the car lost control, flipped, and we rolled into a ditch. The tire blew out. No one died, but I was paralyzed from the waist down, and my mother was paralyzed from the neck down. When I was 17, my world went black in a second." I cried a lot, but now I'm happy.
Öznur Cüre, who stated that she found herself in a completely different life the day after that, said, "I was now a girl with spinal cord paralysis, unable to walk. I had to learn to crawl from scratch, like a baby. My mother's condition was much worse than mine; she couldn't move at all. We were no longer mother and daughter, but companions in fate. She would tell me, 'Never give up. Achieve things that will be a light for others like us.' I wiped my tears and promised her, 'I will succeed.' Now I feel the pride of having succeeded. I cried a lot, but now I'm happy." Öznur Cüre, who won a silver medal at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games: "That invitation changed my life. My father carried me to training on his back." Öznur Cüre explained that being disabled doesn't mean being confined to the house, continuing: "I didn't want to be stuck at home; I was looking for something to do, but I didn't know what to do. National archer Bahattin Hekimoğlu, who, like me, was paralyzed after hitting his head on a rock while diving, invited me to the Archers' Foundation. That's how I started archery. My father carried me on his back for a year to training. It was a struggle, but that invitation revitalized my life. I became a national archer, finished my unfinished high school education, got into university, and I'm studying sports management."