Gamze Altun (born 29 July 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 45 kg division. She is a native of

Tarsus, Mersin Tarsus (Hittite language, Hittite: 𒋫𒅈𒊭 ; grc, Ταρσός, label=Ancient Greek, Greek ; xcl, Տարսոն, label=Old Armenian, Armenian ; ar, طَرسُوس ) is a historic city in south-central Turkey, inland from the Mediterranea ...

, southern Turkey.

Sport career

Altun took the siver medal in the 45 kg clean&jerk event at the 2023 European Weightlifting Championships in

Yerevan Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Y ...

, Armenia. At the 2024 European Weightlifting Championships in

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, Bulgaria, she won the gold medal in the Clean & Jerk event with 92 kg and the silver medal in total with 157 kg. Her lift in Clean & Jerk became the new European U23 record.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Altun, Gamze 2003 births Living people People from Tarsus, Mersin Sportspeople from Mersin Turkish female weightlifters European Weightlifting Championships medalists 21st-century Turkish sportswomen