Nurcan Taylan

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Medal record
Women's Weightlifting
Olympic Games
Gold 2004 Athens 48 kg
World Championships
Silver 2003 Vancouver, B.C., Canada 48 kg
Bronze 2002 Warsaw, Poland 48 kg
European Championships
Gold 2004 Kiev, Ukraine 53 kg
Mediterranean Games
Gold 2005 Almería, Spain 53 kg
European Junior Championships
Gold 2003 Loutraki, Greece 53 kg
Gold 2002 Warsaw, Poland 48 kg

Nurcan Taylan (born October 29, 1983 in Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish Alevi Olympic and European champion in weightlifting. She holds six European and one world record (and tied two more world records).

She was born in Mamak, Ankara as the third child of a poor family originating from the town of Zara in Sivas, eastern Central Anatolia. Taylan was discovered at age of eleven by the Turkish national athlete and her later coach Mehmet Üstündağ as he was her teacher in physical education at the Mamak Secondary School in Ankara.

Only 1.52 m tall, she lifted two World and five Olympic records in the women’s 48 kg category at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Nurcan Taylan is Turkey's first ever female Olympic gold medalist.[1]

She is student of physical education and sports and member of the Yenimahalle Club in Ankara.

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[edit] Medals

Olympics

Rank Discipline Snatch Clean&Jerk Total Place Date
1 48 kg 97.5 CWR 210.0 CWR Athens, GRE Aug 14, 2004
2 48 kg 112.5 Athens, GRE Aug 14, 2004

World Championships

Rank Discipline Snatch Clean&Jerk Total Place Date
2 48 kg 87.5 105.0 192.5 Warsaw, POL Nov 19, 2002
3 48 kg 85.0 187.5 Vancouver, B.C., CAN Nov 18, 2003
5 48 kg 102.5 Vancouver, B.C., CAN Nov 18, 2003

European Championships

Rank Discipline Snatch Clean&Jerk Total Place Date
1 53 kg 95.5 ER 115.5 ER 210.0 Kiev, UKR Apr 20, 2004
1 J 53 kg 95.0 ER 115.0 ER 210.0 ER Loutraki, GRE Apr 15, 2003
1 J 48 kg 87.5 ER 105.0 ER 192.5 ER Warsaw, POL Nov 19, 2002

Mediterranean Games

Rank Discipline Snatch Clean&Jerk Total Place Date
1 53 kg 87.0 MR 108.0 MR Almería, ESP Jun 26, 2005
  • J: Junior
  • CWR: Current world record
  • ER: European record
  • MR: Mediterranean record

[edit] World rank

2004 World ranking list for the category "Women 48 kg" is as following:

Rank Athlete Snatch Clean&Jerk Total Place Date
1 Nurcan Taylan, TUR 97.5 112.5 210.0 Athens, GRE Aug 14, 2004
2 Zhuo Li, CHN 90.0 115.0 205.0 Almaty, Kazakhstan Apr 7, 2004
3 Wei Gao, CHN 90.0 110.0 200.0 Minsk, BLR May 24, 2004
3= Aree Wiratthaworn, THA 85.0 115.0 200.0 Athens, GRE Aug 14, 2004

[edit] Her coach’s scandal

A Turkish court in September 2004 ordered the arrest of the coach of the Turkish women’s weightlifting team Üstündağ after three women athletes filed complaints of sexual harassment against him. Ustundag denied in court allegations of repeated physical sexual molestation going back several years, fielded by Sibel Şimşek, Aylin Daşdelen and Şule Şahbaz, all members of the Turkish women's team at the Athens Olympics.

But the court ordered him to be placed under detention in view of the "alleged crime's nature, the evidence collected and feelings of anger it has inspired in the public". The allegations first hit the media in early September when the three athletes gave extensive interviews to newspapers and television channels. Daşdelen told a television news program that Üstündağ also made it a habit of "beating" his charges, going so far as to blame the trainer for the 1999 suicide of teammate Esma Can. The only support for Üstündağ came from Taylan, who in turn accused her three teammates of being "lesbians". Turkish sports officials immediately launched an official investigation. Üstündağ came under investigation on similar charges four years ago, but the evidence was inconclusive.

The Turkish Weightlifting Federation did not allow Taylan to participate at the 2005 European Weightlifting Championship held in Sofia, Bulgaria between April 17 and April 25.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ BIA Net August 16, 2004 (Turkish)