Cansel Özkan (born 2003) 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 59 kg.

Personal life

Cansel Özkan was born in 2003. She has a one-year older sister Aysel. The sisters grew up in the Children's Home Coordination Center ( tr, Çocuk Evi Koordinasyon Merkezi, ÇEKOM) in

Niğde Niğde (; grc, Νίγδη; Hittite: Nahita, Naxita) is a city and the capital of Niğde province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey at an elevation of 1,299 m. In 2017 the city population was 141,010 people. The city is small with plenty ...

. After their father's death in 2009, the girls moved to

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 ...

following the mother. One year later, they returned to Niğde due to family problems. They were placed in the ÇEKOM again.

Sport career

Özkan started weightlifting together with her sister. She participated at the 2019 Youth World Weightlifting Championships in

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, United States, where she won the gold medal in the 55 kg snatch event. The same year, she won the bronze medal in the snatch, the silver medal in the clean & jerk event and the bronze medal in total, competing in the same 59 kg division with her sister,at the European Youth Weightlifting Championships in

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, Israel. She took the silver medals in the 59 kg snatch event and in total at the

2021 Junior World Weightlifting Championships The 2021 Junior World Weightlifting Championships were held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan from 23 to 31 May 2021. Medal table Ranking by Big (Total result) medals Ranking by all medals: Big (Total result) and Small (Snatch and Clean & Jerk) Meda ...

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, Uzbekistan. At the 2021 European Junior & U23 Weightlifting Championships in

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, Finland, she received the silver medal in the 59 kg snatch event and the bronze medal in total. She was not successful at the

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in Tashkent, Uzbekistan as well as at the 2022 Junior World Weightlifting Championships in

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, Greece. In the 59 kg snatch event at the

2022 Mediterranean Games The 2022 Mediterranean Games ( ar, ألعاب البحر الأبيض المتوسط 2022, links=, lit=, translit=ʾAlʿāb al-Baḥr al-ʾAbyaḍ al-Mutawassiṭ 2022), officially known as the XIX Mediterranean Games and commonly known as Oran ...

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, Algeria, she took the bronze medal. Özkan won the bronze medal in the snatch event of the 59 kg division at the

2021 Islamic Solidarity Games ‌The 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games ( tr, 2021 İslami Dayanışma Oyunları) were the 5th edition of the event held from 9 to 18 August 2022 at Konya, Turkey under the aegis of Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation (ISSF). It was the first time ...

Konya Konya () is a major city in central Turkey, on the southwestern edge of the Central Anatolian Plateau, and is the capital of Konya Province. During antiquity and into Seljuk times it was known as Iconium (), although the Seljuks also called it D ...

, Turkey.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ozkan, Cansel 2002 births Living people Sportspeople from Niğde Turkish female weightlifters Islamic Solidarity Games medalists in weightlifting Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Turkey Medalists at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games Islamic Solidarity Games bronze medalists for Turkey