Taner Sağır

Taner Sağır

Personal information
Nationality	Turkish
Born	March 13, 1985 (1985-03-13) 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
Medal record Olympic Games Gold 2004 Athens –77 kg World Championships Total Gold 2006 Santo Domingo –77 kg European Championships Total Gold 2005 Sofia –77 kg Gold 2004 Kiev –77 kg Bronze 2007 Strasbourg –77 kg

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.

He has not competed in a major event since 2008, owing to a spinal disc injury. [1]

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

Medals

Olympics

Rank	Discipline	Snatch	Clean and jerk	Total	Place	Date
1 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
1 Gold	–77 kg	166.0	195.0	361.0	Santo Domingo, DOM	Oct 3, 2006
1 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
1 Gold	–77 kg	167.5	192.5	360.0	Sofia, BUL	Apr 22, 2005
1 Gold	–77 kg	167.5	200.0	367.5	Kiev, UKR	Apr 20, 2004
1 Gold	J –69 kg	147.5	175.0	322.5	Havířov, CZE	May 29, 2002
1 Gold	Y –69 kg				Stavanger, NOR	Jul 30, 2001
2 Silver	Y –59 kg				Košice, SVK	Aug 24, 2000

• Y: Youth (under 16)
• J: Junior
• COR: Current Olympic record
• JWR: Junior World record

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

External links

• Taner Sağır at Lift Up