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
Nationality	Turkish
Born	13 March 1985 Kardzhali, Bulgaria
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Sport
Country	Turkey
Sport	Weightlifting
Event(s)	–77 kg
Club	Demirspor Club, Ankara
Coached by	Muharrem 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 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

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	Kiev, 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

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

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

• Taner Sağır at Lift Up