Åžaziye ErdoÄŸan
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Åžaziye ErdoÄŸan-Okur (born February 23,1992) is a Turkish
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competing in the Women's −45 kg division. Okur is the current world record holder in the −44 kg division of youth category with 77 kg in the snatch, 92 kg in the clean & jerk events and 169 kg in total.


Career

She was born to a poor family in
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, where her father was a construction worker. Already at the age of 11, she started with weightlifting in the primary school in
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, Ankara. At the 2009 European Weightlifting Junior Championships held in
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,
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, on 28 July, she broke four European youth records lifting 79.0 kg in snatch, 97.0 kg in clean&jerk and 172.0 and then 176.kg in total. She is trained by Talat Ünlü, Mustafa Doğan, Erkan Kayır and Nurcihan Gönül. In 2013, Okur was banned from international competition by the
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for 2 years for use of anabolic steroid
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. She won the bronze medal in the women's 45kg event at the
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held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. She won the gold medal in the women's 45kg event at the 2022 European Weightlifting Championships held in Tirana, Albania. She won the bronze medal in the women's 49kg Snatch and Clean & Jerk events at the
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held in Oran, Algeria.


Major results


References


External links

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Saziye Okur at Weightlifting Database
{{DEFAULTSORT:ErdoÄŸan, Saziye 1992 births Sportspeople from Ankara Living people Turkish female weightlifters Doping cases in weightlifting Competitors at the 2018 Mediterranean Games Weightlifters at the 2022 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Turkey Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Turkey Mediterranean Games medalists in weightlifting World Weightlifting Championships medalists European Weightlifting Championships medalists Islamic Solidarity Games medalists in weightlifting 21st-century Turkish sportswomen Islamic Solidarity Games silver medalists for Turkey Medalists at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games