Taner Sağır

Taner Sağır
Personal information
Nationality Turkish
Born March 13, 1985 (1985-03-13) (age 26)
Kardzhali, Bulgaria
Height 1.70 m (5.6 ft)
Sport
Country Turkey
Sport Weightlifting
Event(s) –77 kg
Club Demirspor Club, Ankara
Coached by Muharrem Süleymanoğlu and Osman Nuri Vural

Taner Sağır (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.

He did not finish after three failures in the snatch event at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

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Highlights

Medals

Olympics

Rank Discipline Snatch Clean and jerk Total Place Date
 Gold –77 kg 172.5 COR 202.5 375.0 COR Athens, GRE Aug 19, 2004

World Championships

Rank Discipline Snatch Clean and jerk Total Place Date
 Gold –77 kg 166.0 195.0 361.0 Santo Domingo, DOM Oct 3, 2006
 Gold J –77 kg 160.0 195.5 JWR 355.0 JWR Hermosillo, MEX Jun 1, 2003

European Championships

Rank Discipline Snatch Clean and jerk Total Place Date
 Gold –77 kg 167.5 192.5 360.0 Sofia, BUL Apr 22, 2005
 Gold –77 kg 167.5 200.0 367.5 Kiev, UKR Apr 20, 2004
 Gold J –69 kg 147.5 175.0 322.5 Havířov, CZE May 29, 2002
 Gold Y –69 kg Stavanger, NOR Jul 30, 2001
 Silver Y –59 kg Košice, SVK Aug 24, 2000

World rank

2004 World ranking list for the category "Men 77 kg" is as following:

Rank Discipline Snatch Clean and 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

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