Taner Sağır

Taner Sağır

Personal information
Nationality	Turkish
Born	(1985-03-13) March 13, 1985 Kardzhali, Bulgaria
Height
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 2005 Sofia –77 kg 2004 Kiev –77 kg 2007 Strasbourg –77 kg

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 to became the youngest Olympic champion in weightlifting history. He is seen as a great talent by authorities.

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.

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. [1]

Famiy 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.

Medals

Olympics

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

World Championships

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

European Championships

Rank	Discipline	Snatch	Clean and jerk	Total	Place	Date
Gold	–77 kg	167.5	192.5	360.0	Sofia, BUL	Apr 22, 2005
Gold	–77 kg	167.5	200.0	367.5	Kiev, UKR	Apr 20, 2004
Gold	J –69 kg	147.5	175.0	322.5	Havířov, CZE	May 29, 2002
Gold	Y –69 kg				Stavanger, NOR	Jul 30, 2001
Silver	Y –59 kg				Košice, SVK	Aug 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:

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

External links

• Taner Sağır at Lift Up