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Åžaziye ErdoÄŸan-Okur (born February 23,1992) is a
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weightlifter competing in the Women's −45 kg division. Okur is the current world record holder in the −44 kg division of youth category with 77 kg in the snatch, 92 kg in the clean & jerk events and 169 kg in total.


Career

She was born to a poor family in
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, where her father was a construction worker. Already at the age of 11, she started with weightlifting in the primary school in
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, Ankara. At the 2009 European Weightlifting Junior Championships held in
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, on 28 July, she broke four European youth records lifting 79.0 kg in snatch, 97.0 kg in clean&jerk and 172.0 and then 176.kg in total. She is trained by Talat Ãœnlü, Mustafa DoÄŸan, Erkan Kayır and Nurcihan Gönül. In 2013, Okur was banned from international competition by the International Weightlifting Federation for 2 years for use of anabolic steroid Stanozolol. She won the bronze medal in the women's 45 kg event at the
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held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. She won the gold medal in the women's 45 kg event at the
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held in Tirana, Albania.


Major results


References


External links


Åžaziye Okur at IWFÅžaziye Okur at Weightlifting Database
{{DEFAULTSORT:ErdoÄŸan, Saziye 1992 births Sportspeople from Ankara Living people Turkish female weightlifters Doping cases in weightlifting Competitors at the 2018 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Turkey Mediterranean Games medalists in weightlifting World Weightlifting Championships medalists European Weightlifting Championships medalists 21st-century Turkish women