Taner Sağır

Taner Sagir ( born March 13, 1985 in Kardzhali, Bulgaria) is a Turkish weightlifter.

Sporting career

Sagir began his international career with a body weight of 53.1 kg at the age of 15 years at the European Youth Championships in Lignano Sabbiadoro, where he managed 82.5 kg in the snatch and 85 kg in the jerk and thus in 15th.

In the next few years Sagir started coming back to youth and junior competitions and reached there again top rankings. By the year 2003, he increased his body weight, so that he now started at middleweight to 77 kg. His duel power he increased and achieved at the Junior European Championships in Valencia 365.0 kg in single combat, consisting of 165.5 kg in the snatch and 200.0 kg in bumping.

2004 in Kiev, he was then first used at a European Championship and won with 367.5 kg of gold in all three disciplines. At the Olympic Games in the same year he was able to again increase to 375.0 kg and won Olympic gold before Sergey Filimonov and Oleg Perepetschenow.

In the following year, Sagir won the European Championship for himself and won in Sofia his second European title. Although he did not present himself at the Senior World Championships in Doha, but he was again at the Junior World Championships in Busan First.

In 2006 he then started for the first time at a Senior World Championship in Santo Domingo and won with 361.0 kg the title ahead of Li Hongli with 359.0 kg and 357.0 kg Ara Khachatryan with.

At the European Championships in 2007 in Strasbourg, Sagir had the two Armenieren Gevorg Khachatryan Dawtjan and beaten and ended up in third place.

In 2008, for him no success to choose. After he was able to bring a valid attempt at the European Championships in Lignano Sabbiadoro neither in the snatch, still thrusting, this fate repeated at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, where he had to finish as tournament favorites after three invalid attempts in the snatch the competition.

Others

  • Sagir is like Halil Mutlu and Naim Suleymanoglu born as a member of the Turkish minority in Bulgaria and applied at a young age for Turkish citizenship.

Personal best

  • Tear: 172.5 kg in class to 77 kg in Athens in 2004.
  • Launched: 202.5 kg in class to 77 kg in Athens in 2004.
  • Duel: 375.0 kg ( 172.5 / 202.5 kg ) in the class up to 77 kg in Athens in 2004.
Olympic weightlifting 2006 World Weightlifting Championships Oleg Perepetchenov Carlo Galimberti Rudolf Ismayr Frank Spellman Pete George Yordan Mitkov Karl-Heinz Radschinsky Pablo Lara Zhan Xugang
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