Taner Sağır
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| Medal record | |||
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 Taner Sağır |
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| Men's Weightlifting | |||
Competitor for  Turkey |
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| Olympic Games | |||
| Gold | 2004 Athens | – 77 kg | |
| World Championships | |||
| Gold | 2006 Santo Domingo | – 77 kg | |
Taner Sağır (Bulgarian: ?, born March 13, 1985 in Kardzhali, Bulgaria) 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 years 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.
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[edit] Highlights
- Records: 13 Junior World records, 13 Junior European records and 3 Youth European records.
- 18th best lifter of 100 years
- 3rd best lifter of 2004
[edit] Medals
Olympics
| Rank | Discipline | Snatch | Clean&Jerk | Total | Place | Date |
| 1 | 77 kg | 172.5 COR | 202.5 | 375.0 COR | Athens, GRE | Aug 19, 2004 |
World Championships
| Rank | Discipline | Snatch | Clean&Jerk | Total | Place | Date |
| 1 | 77 kg | 166.0 | 195.0 | 361.0 | Santo Domingo, DOM | Oct 3, 2006 |
| 1 | J 77 kg | 160.0 | 195.5 JWR | 355.0 JWR | Hermosillo, MEX | Jun 1, 2003 |
European Championships
| Rank | Discipline | Snatch | Clean&Jerk | Total | Place | Date |
| 1 | 77 kg | 167.5 | 192.5 | 360.0 | Sofia, BUL | Apr 22, 2005 |
| 1 | 77 kg | 167.5 | 200.0 | 367.5 | Kiev, UKR | Apr 20, 2004 |
| 1 | J 69 kg | 147.5 | 175.0 | 322.5 | Havířov, CZE | May 29, 2002 |
| 1 | Y 69 kg | Stavanger, NOR | Jul 30, 2001 | |||
| 2 | Y 59 kg | Košice, SVK | Aug 24, 2000 |
- Y: Youth (under 16)
- J: Junior
- COR: Current Olympic record
- JWR: Junior World record
[edit] World rank
2004 World ranking list for the category "Men 77 kg" is as following:
| Rank | Athlete | Snatch | Clean&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 |
