Taner Sağır

Taner Sağır (born March 13, 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) March 13, 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
2004 Athens–77 kg
World Championships
2006 Santo Domingo–77 kg
European Championships
2004 Kiev–77 kg
2005 Sofia–77 kg
2007 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 August 30, 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, GREAug 19, 2004

World Championships

RankDisciplineSnatchClean and jerkTotalPlaceDate
 Gold–77 kg166.0195.0361.0Santo Domingo, DOMOct 3, 2006
 GoldJ –77 kg160.0195.5 JWR355.0 JWRHermosillo, MEXJun 1, 2003

European Championships

RankDisciplineSnatchClean and jerkTotalPlaceDate
 Gold–77 kg167.5192.5360.0Sofia, BULApr 22, 2005
 Gold–77 kg167.5200.0367.5Kiev, UKRApr 20, 2004
 GoldJ –69 kg147.5175.0322.5Havířov, CZEMay 29, 2002
 GoldY –69 kgStavanger, NORJul 30, 2001
 SilverY –59 kgKošice, SVKAug 24, 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, GREAug 19, 2004
2Sergey Filimonov, KAZ172.5200.0372.5Athens, GREAug 19, 2004
3Oleg Perepetchenov, RUS170.0195.0365.0Athens, GREAug 19, 2004
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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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