Nezir Sağır (born October 19, 1983 in

Isperih Isperih ( bg, Исперих ; tr, Kemallar) is a town in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Razgrad Province, situated in the central part of the Ludogorie region. It is the administrative centre of the eponymous Isperih Municipality. As of December ...

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) 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 lif ...

competing in the –85 kg division. The tall athlete at is a member of Ankara Demir Spor, where he is coached by Osman Nuri Vural.

Early years

He was born in Bulgaria to parents of Turkish ethnicity. The family emigrated in 1989, to Turkey, settled first in the Batıkent neighborhood of

Yenimahalle, Ankara Yenimahalle is a metropolitan district of Ankara Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey, a fast-growing urban residential district of the city of Ankara, Turkey's capital. According to 2010 census, population of the urban center is 64 ...

, and moved later to

Pursaklar, Ankara Pursaklar is a metropolitan district in the province of Ankara, the capital of Turkey. It became a town municipality in 1987, and a district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local gove ...

. He began in 1994, with weightlifting in Pursaklar. Nezir Sağır is the older brother of Olympic, world and European weightlifting champion

Taner Sağır Taner Sağır (born 13 March 1985 in Kardzhali, Bulgaria) is a Turkish world and Olympic weightlifting champion. Coming into Athens as holder of all the junior world records at the age of only 19, he broke the Olympic records in the category &nda ...

Sports career

He participated at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He was included into the Turkish Olympics team as a placeholder after European champion in the -85 kg division.

Fatih Baydar Fatih Baydar (; born November 25, 1983) is a Turkish weightlifter competing in the –85 kg division. At the 2012 European Championships held in Antalya, Turkey, he became silver medalist. He was due to compete at the 2012 Olympic G ...

tested positive in a doping check made on July 3, of which result was notified on July 23, shortly before the departure of the Turkish athletes to London. At the

2013 Mediterranean Games The 2013 Mediterranean Games ( tr, 2013 Akdeniz Oyunları), officially known as the XVII Mediterranean Games ( tr, XVII Akdeniz Oyunları) and commonly known as Mersin 2013, was an international multi-sport event held from 20 to 30 June 2013 i ...

held in Mersin, Turkey, he won the silver medal in the –85 kg Clean&Jerk division. Sağır took the silver medal in the -85 kg division at the

2013 Islamic Solidarity Games The 3rd Islamic Solidarity Games was an international sporting event held in Palembang, Indonesia from 22 September to 1 October 2013. The 2009 event, originally scheduled to take place in Iran, and later re-scheduled for April 2010, was cancelle ...

in Palembang, Indonesia.

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International Weightlifting Federation Start List Men's -85kg
1983 births People from Isperih Bulgarian Turks in Turkey Bulgarian emigrants to Turkey Living people Turkish male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters for Turkey Weightlifters at the 2012 Summer Olympics {{Turkey-weightlifting-bio-stub Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Turkey Competitors at the 2013 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in weightlifting Islamic Solidarity Games silver medalists for Turkey Www.bangbros.com