Taner Sağır

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Taner Sağır
Personal information
NationalityTurkish
Born (1985-03-13) 13 March 1985 (age 39)
Kardzhali, Bulgaria
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Sport
CountryTurkey
SportWeightlifting
Event–77 kg
ClubDemirspor Club, Ankara
Coached byMuharrem Süleymanoğlu and Osman Nuri Vural
Medal record
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens –77 kg
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2006 Santo Domingo –77 kg
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2004 Kyiv –77 kg
Gold medal – first place 2005 Sofia –77 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2007 Strasbourg –77 kg

Taner Sağır (born 13 March 1985 in Kardzhali, Bulgaria) is a Turkish world and Olympic weightlifting champion. Coming into Athens as holder of all the junior world records at the age of only 19, he broke the Olympic records in the category –77 kg snatch, clean and jerk and total. He is seen as a great talent by authorities.

Early years[edit]

He was born in Bulgaria to parents of Turkish ethnicity. In 1989, the family emigrated to Turkey where they settled first in the Batıkent neighborhood of Yenimahalle, Ankara before later moving to Pursaklar, Ankara. In 1994, Taner began weightlifting in Pursaklar. Taner Sağır is the younger brother of Olympic weightlifter Nezir Sağır.[1]

Sports career[edit]

Sağır, 1.70 m tall, is a student of physical education and sports. Muharrem Süleymanoğlu and Osman Nuri Vural coach him at the Demirspor Club in Ankara, Turkey.

As he is somewhat baby-faced, he was in a few commercials at the Athens Olympics in 2004.

He did not finish after three failures in the snatch event at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

He has not competed in a major event since 2008, owing to a spinal disc injury. [1]

Family life[edit]

On 30 August 2008 he married Sibel Güler, a two-time European taekwondo champion and also an immigrant from Bulgaria. The couple has a child. The family resides in Ankara on a street named after him.[2]

Medals[edit]

Olympics

Rank Discipline Snatch Clean and jerk Total Place Date
 Gold –77 kg 172.5 202.5 375.0 Athens, GRE 19 August 2004

World Championships

Rank Discipline Snatch Clean and jerk Total Place Date
 Gold –77 kg 166.0 195.0 361.0 Santo Domingo, DOM 3 October 2006
 Gold J –77 kg 160.0 195.5 JWR 355.0 JWR Hermosillo, MEX 1 June 2003

European Championships

Rank Discipline Snatch Clean and jerk Total Place Date
 Gold –77 kg 167.5 192.5 360.0 Sofia, BUL 22 April 2005
 Gold –77 kg 167.5 200.0 367.5 Kyiv, UKR 20 April 2004
 Gold J –69 kg 147.5 175.0 322.5 Havířov, CZE 29 May 2002
 Gold Y –69 kg Stavanger, NOR 30 July 2001
 Silver Y –59 kg Košice, SVK 24 August 2000
  • Y: Youth (under 16)
  • J: Junior
  • JWR: Junior World record

World rank[edit]

2004 World ranking list for the category "Men 77 kg" is as following:

Rank Discipline Snatch Clean and jerk Total Place Date
1 Taner Sağır, TUR 172.5 202.5 375.0 Athens, GRE 19 August 2004
2 Sergey Filimonov, KAZ 172.5 200.0 372.5 Athens, GRE 19 August 2004
3 Oleg Perepetchenov, RUS 170.0 195.0 365.0 Athens, GRE 19 August 2004

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Taner Sağır: Olimpiyatlar her şeyi değiştirdi". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2008-12-09. Retrieved 2012-07-31.
  2. ^ "Şampiyonlar evlendi". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2008-08-30. Retrieved 2012-12-15.

External links[edit]

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