Taner Sağır

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.

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

*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:

External links

* [http://www.iwf.net/ International Weightlifting Federation]
* [http://www.weightliftingexchange.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=39&topic=2471.0 Taner Sagir - Hall of Fame at Weightlifting Exchange]
* [http://www.bursahalter.com/busan1.jpgTaner Sagir's photo]
* [http://www.bursahalter.com/pages/turkhalteri.htm Taner Sagir's biyography]