Duygu Alıcı (born 14 January 2001) is a Turkish

weightlifter Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lift ...

competing in the 55 kg division.

Sports career

Alıcı started performing weightlifting at the age of twelve in the middle school with the encouragement of her art teacher. She won several competitions in her country, such as the first place in Interscholastic championship, first places in U15 and U17 divisions, and broke the youth record in the Clean & Jerk event with 55 kg. She became champion in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2022, she competed in the 55 kg division at the Turkish Senior Weightlifting Championships, and lifted 80 kg in the Snatch and 105 kg in the Clean & Jerk event. Alıcı won two bronze medals, in the 55 kg Snatch event with 85 kg and in the Clean & Jerk event with 105 kg at the 2024 European Weightlifting Championships held in

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, Bulgaria. She renewed her own record in 55 kg Snatch with 85 kg.

Personal career

Duygu Alıcı was born in

Gaziantep Gaziantep (), previously and still informally called Aintab or Antep (), is a major city and capital of the Gaziantep Province, in the westernmost part of Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Region and partially in the Mediterranean Region, approximat ...

, Turkey on 14 January 2001. She has a twin sister Duygu, and a two-year younger sister Züleyha, who also perdorm weightlifting. Alıcı is a student of

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in the School of Physical Education and Sport at

Istanbul Gelişim University Istanbul Gelisim University ( tr, İstanbul Gelişim Üniversitesi) is a private non-profit university in Istanbul, Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list o ...

References

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