Taner Sağır

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.

Taner Sağır
Personal information
NationalityTurkish
Born (1985-03-13) 13 March 1985
Kardzhali, Bulgaria
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Sport
CountryTurkey
SportWeightlifting
Event(s)–77 kg
ClubDemirspor Club, Ankara
Coached byMuharrem Süleymanoğlu and Osman Nuri Vural
Medal record
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2004 Athens–77 kg
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2006 Santo Domingo–77 kg
European Championships
Gold medal – first place2004 Kyiv–77 kg
Gold medal – first place2005 Sofia–77 kg
Bronze medal – third place2007 Strasbourg–77 kg

Early years

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

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.

Family life

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

Olympics

RankDisciplineSnatchClean and jerkTotalPlaceDate
 Gold–77 kg172.5202.5375.0Athens, GRE19 August 2004

World Championships

RankDisciplineSnatchClean and jerkTotalPlaceDate
 Gold–77 kg166.0195.0361.0Santo Domingo, DOM3 October 2006
 GoldJ –77 kg160.0195.5 JWR355.0 JWRHermosillo, MEX1 June 2003

European Championships

RankDisciplineSnatchClean and jerkTotalPlaceDate
 Gold–77 kg167.5192.5360.0Sofia, BUL22 April 2005
 Gold–77 kg167.5200.0367.5Kyiv, UKR20 April 2004
 GoldJ –69 kg147.5175.0322.5Havířov, CZE29 May 2002
 GoldY –69 kgStavanger, NOR30 July 2001
 SilverY –59 kgKošice, SVK24 August 2000
  • Y: Youth (under 16)
  • J: Junior
  • JWR: Junior World record

World rank

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

RankDisciplineSnatchClean and jerkTotalPlaceDate
1Taner Sağır, TUR172.5202.5375.0Athens, GRE19 August 2004
2Sergey Filimonov, KAZ172.5200.0372.5Athens, GRE19 August 2004
3Oleg Perepetchenov, RUS170.0195.0365.0Athens, GRE19 August 2004

References
  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.
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