Taner Sağır Athlete

Taner Sağır is a Turkish world and Olympic weightlifting champion. Coming to Athens as holder of all the junior world records, he broke, at age of 19 only, Olympic records in the category –77 kg snatch, clean and jerk and total, and became so the youngest Olympic champion in the weightlifting history. He is seen as a great talent by authorities. Sağır, 1.70 m tall, is student of physical education and sports. Muharrem Süleymanoğlu and Osman Nuri Vural coach him at Demirspor Club in Ankara, Turkey. His two-year-older brother Nezir Sağır is also a famous international lifter. 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. http://www. sabah. com. tr/SabahSpor/TumSporlar/2011/10/10/taner-sagirdan-haltere-veda

Personal facts

Birth dateMarch 13, 1985
Birth place
Bulgaria , Kardzhali
Nationality
Turkey
Height (meters)1.7

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External resources

  1. http://www.chidlovski.net/liftup/l_athleteStatsResult.asp?a_id=599
  2. http://www.sabah.com.tr/SabahSpor/TumSporlar/2011/10/10/taner-sagirdan-haltere-veda