Nationality Turkish Event(s) 48 kg Sport Weightlifting | Country Turkey Weight 48 kg (106 lb) Name Saziye Okur | |
Born February 23, 1992 (age 32) ( 1992-02-23 ) Ankara Coached by Talat Unlu, Mustafa Dogan, Erkan Kayir and Nurcihan Gonul | ||
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Şaziye Erdoğan-Okur (born February 23, 1992 in Ankara) is a Turkish female weightlifter competing in the Women's –48 kg division. Okur is the current world record holder in the -44 kg division of youth category with 77 kg in the snatch, 92 kg in the clean&jerk events and 169 kg in total.
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She was born to a poor family in Ankara, where her father is a construction worker. Already at the age of 11, she started with weightlifting in the primary school in Keçiören, Ankara.
At the 2009 European Weightlifting Junior Championships held in Landskrona, Sweden, she broke on July 28 four European youth records lifting 79.0 kg in snatch, 97.0 kg in clean&jerk and 172.0 and then 176.kg in total.
She is trained by Talat Ünlü, Mustafa Doğan, Erkan Kayır and Nurcihan Gönül.
In 2013, Okur was banned from international competition by the International Weightlifting Federation for 2 years for use of anabolic steroid Stanozolol.