Taner Sagir

Taner Sağır

Personal information

Nationality

Turkish

Born

March 13, 1985 (age 32)
Kardzhali, Bulgaria

Height

1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)

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
	2004 Athens	–77 kg
World Championships
	2006 Santo Domingo	–77 kg
European Championships
	2004 Kiev	–77 kg
	2005 Sofia	–77 kg
	2007 Strasbourg	–77 kg

Taner Sağır (born March 13, 1985 in Kardzhali, Bulgaria) is a Turkish world and Olympic weightlifting champion. Coming into Athens as holder of all the junior world records at the age of only 19, he broke the Olympic records in the category –77 kg snatch, clean and jerk and total. He is seen as a great talent by authorities.

He was born in Bulgaria to parents of Turkish ethnicity. In 1989, the family emigrated to Turkey where they settled first in the Batıkent neighborhood of Yenimahalle, Ankara before later moving to Pursaklar, Ankara. In 1994, Taner began weightlifting in Pursaklar. Taner Sağır is the younger brother of Olympic weightlifter Nezir Sağır.

Sağır, 1.70 m tall, is a student of physical education and sports. Muharrem Süleymanoğlu and Osman Nuri Vural coach him at the Demirspor Club in Ankara, Turkey.

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]

On August 30, 2008, he married Sibel Güler, a two-time European taekwondo champion and also an immigrant from Bulgaria. The couple has a child. The family resides in Ankara on a street named after him.

Olympics

World Championships

European Championships

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

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