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Zeliha Ağrıs
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Zeliha Ağrıs (2020)
Personal information
Born (1998-01-20) 20 January 1998 (age 26)
Beyşehir, Konya Province, Turkey
EducationSports science
Alma materSelçuk University
Years active2008–
Height1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Sport
CountryTurkey
SportTaekwondo
EventBantamweight
Medal record
Women's taekwondo
Representing  Turkey
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2017 Muju 53 kg
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 2021 Sofia 53 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Montreux 53 kg
Islamic Solidarity Games
Silver medal – second place 2017 Baku 53 kg
World Grand Prix
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Rome 49 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Moscow 49 kg
European U21 Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Warsaw 53 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Sofia 53 kg
European Junior Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Porto 55 kg

Zeliha Ağrıs (born 20 January 1998) is a Turkish taekwondo practitioner who became a world champion in the bantamweight category in 2017.

Private life

Zeliha Ağrıs was born in Beyşehir, Konya Province, Turkey, on 20 January 1998.[1][2][3] She grew up in Konya, where her father runs a restaurant.[4]

She was a very energetic girl in her childhood.[5] She was impressed by taekwondo practitioners performing in a nearby gym. In the beginning, her father was not willing to let her daughter perform taekwondo. A trainer in the gym persuaded her father.[4] She started performing taekwondo at age ten.[4][5] Her parents supported her later on.[5]

She is a student in the School of Sports science at Selçuk University in Konya.[6]

Sport career

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Zeliha Ağrıs (blue) vs Ganna Soroka UKR (red) at the Sofia Open 2018 G1 International Taekwondo Tournament.

She debuted internationally at the 2011 European Cadets Taekwondo Championships held in Tbilisi, Georgia, competing in the -41 kg event.[7]

She won her first international medal at the 2013 European Junior Taekwondo Championships in Porto, Portugal, reaching bronze in the -55 kg event.[8] In 2014, she took the silver medal in the -55 kg event at the Telleborg Open in Sweden.[9] Ağrıs received the gold medal at the 2015 European Junior Taekwondo Championships in Daugavpils, Latvia.[4] She captured the bronze medal at the 2016 European Taekwondo Championships in Montreux, Switzerland.[10] She took the bronze medal at the ETU European Under 21 Taekwondo Championships 2017 in Sofia, Bulgaria,[11] the silver medal at the 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games in Baku, Azerbaijan,[12] and the gold medal at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships in Muju, South Korea, in the bantamweight category when she was 19 years of age.[13] She had beaten the bronze medallist, Dinorahon Mamadibragimova, in the semi final before beating Tatiana Kudashova 11-8 in the final.[14]

Ağrıs won a bronze medal in Rome,[15] another in Moscow at the 2018 World Taekwondo Grand Prix.[16] The same year, she won another bronze medal at the European Taekwondo Under 21 Championships in Warsaw.[17] At the G4 Extra European Taekwondo Championships held in Bari, Italy, in 2019, she captured the silver medal in the -53 kg event.[18] In 2020, she won the gold medal at the 8th Open European Clubs Championships in Zagreb, Croatia.[19] She won the silver medal in the -53 kg event at the 2021 European Taekwondo Championships in Sofia.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Zeliha Ağrıs" (in Turkish). Türkiye Milli Olimpiyat Komitesi. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  2. ^ Aslan, Erkan (13 December 2018). "Güçlü Tekmeleriyle Rakiplerini Dize Getiren Dünya Şampiyonu Milli Tekvandocumuz Zeliha Ağrıs". listelist (in Turkish). Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Beyşehir'in Gururu Zeliha Ağrıs, Avrupa İkincisi oldu". BGRT (in Turkish). 10 April 2021. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d "Babası ile antrenörüne oyun kurdu, dünya şampiyonu oldu". Cumhuriyet (in Turkish). 20 February 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  5. ^ a b c "Milli tekvandocu Zeliha Ağrıs: Totemim yok, duam var benim". Anadolu News Agency (in Turkish). 23 January 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  6. ^ "Zeliha Ağrıs Avrupa şampiyonu". Yeni Meram (in Turkish). Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  7. ^ "Yıldızlarda Avrupa Şampiyonu Türkiye" (in Turkish). Türkiye Taekwondo Federasyonu. 9 July 2011. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  8. ^ "Türkiye, Avrupa Gençler Tekvando Şampiyonası'nda 10 madalya topladı". TRT Haber (in Turkish). 28 September 2013. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  9. ^ "Trelleborg Open 2014 Tamamlandı" (in Turkish). Türkiye Taekwondo Federasyonu. 5 February 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  10. ^ "Servet Tazegül 5. kez Avrupa şampiyonu". Anadolu News Agency (in Turkish). 20 May 2016. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  11. ^ "Turkish Taekwondo Team Returns from Sofia with 10 Medals". Turkish Olympic Committee. 10 April 2017. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  12. ^ "Kadın tekvandoculardan Bakü'de büyük başarı". Sözcü (in Turkish). 19 May 2017. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  13. ^ < "Zeliha Ağrıs Dünya Şampiyonu". Milliyet (in Turkish). 28 June 2017. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  14. ^ "Turkey's Agris bags gold in women's Taekwondo". www.aa.com.tr. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  15. ^ "Zeliha Ağrıs, Roma'dan madalya ile dönüyor". Sözcü (in Turkish). 3 June 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  16. ^ "Zeliha Ağrıs'tan bronz madalya!". Milliyet (in Turkish). 12 August 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  17. ^ "Türkiye tekvandoda Avrupa ikincisi". Cumhuriyet (in Turkish). 2 November 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  18. ^ "Tekvando Avrupa Şampiyonası'nda İrem Yaman'dan Türkiye'ye altın madalya". euronews (in Turkish). 2 November 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  19. ^ "Altın madalya Zeliha Ağrıs'ın". Habrtürk (in Turkish). 25 November 2020. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
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