Zeliha Ağrıs (born 20 January 1998) is a

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practitioner who became a world champion in the bantamweight category in 2017.

Private life

Zeliha Ağrıs was born in

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, Turkey, on 20 January 1998. She grew up in

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, where her father runs a restaurant. She was a very energetic girl in her childhood. She was impressed by taekwondo practitioners performing in a nearby gym. In the beginning, her father was not willing to let his daughter perform taekwondo. A trainer in the gym persuaded her father. She started performing taekwondo at age ten. Her parents supported her later on. She is a student in the School of

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Selçuk University Selçuk University ( tr, Selçuk Üniversitesi) is a state-owned higher educational institution which was founded 1975 in Konya, Turkey. It is one of the largest universities in Turkey with a student body of 63,000 of which 2,200 are foreign stu ...

in Konya.

Sport career

She debuted internationally at the 2011 European Cadets Taekwondo Championships held in

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, Georgia, competing in the -41 kg event. She won her first international medal at the 2013 European Junior Taekwondo Championships in

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, Portugal, reaching bronze in the -55 kg event. In 2014, she took the silver medal in the -55 kg event at the Telleborg Open in Sweden. Ağrıs received the gold medal at the 2015 European Junior Taekwondo Championships in

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, Latvia. She captured the bronze medal at the

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, Switzerland. She took the bronze medal at the ETU European Under 21 Taekwondo Championships 2017 in

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, Bulgaria, the silver medal at the

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, Azerbaijan, and the gold medal at the

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in Muju, South Korea, in the bantamweight category when she was 19 years of age. She had beaten the bronze medallist, Dinorahon Mamadibragimova, in the semi-final before beating

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11–8 in the final. Ağrıs won a bronze medal in

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, another in

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at the

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. The same year, she won another bronze medal at the European Taekwondo Under 21 Championships in

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. At the G4 Extra European Taekwondo Championships held in

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, Italy, in 2019, she captured the silver medal in the -53 kg event. In 2020, she won the gold medal at the 8th Open European Clubs Championships in

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, Croatia. She won the silver medal in the -53 kg event at the

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Tournament record

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Agrıs, Zeliha 1998 births Living people People from Beyşehir Sportspeople from Konya Turkish female taekwondo practitioners World Taekwondo Championships medalists European Taekwondo Championships medalists Selçuk University alumni Islamic Solidarity Games medalists in taekwondo Islamic Solidarity Games competitors for Turkey 21st-century Turkish sportswomen Islamic Solidarity Games bronze medalists for Turkey