Nationality Turkish Event(s) –77 kg Name Taner Sagir Height 1.70 m | Country Turkey Club Demirspor Club, Ankara Role Olympic athlete Siblings Nezir Sagir | |
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Born March 13, 1985 (age 39) ( 1985-03-13 ) Kardzhali, Bulgaria Coached by Muharrem Suleymanoglu and Osman Nuri Vural Olympic medals Weightlifting at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men\'s Middleweight 69-77 kg Nominations Milliyet Sports Award for Athlete of the Year People also search for Nezir Sagir, Oleg Perepetchenov, Sergey Filimonov | ||
Taner sagir 172 5kg snatch 2004 olympic champion
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.
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- Taner sagir 172 5kg snatch 2004 olympic champion
- Taner sagir clean and jerk 195kg
- Early years
- Sports career
- Family life
- Medals
- World rank
- References
Taner sagir clean and jerk 195kg
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]
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.
Medals
Olympics
World Championships
European Championships
World rank
2004 World ranking list for the category "Men 77 kg" is as following: