Melisa Güneş (born 16 April 2001) is a Turkish

weightlifter Weightlifting or weight lifting generally refers to physical exercises and sports in which people lift weights, often in the form of dumbbells, barbells or machines. People engage in weightlifting for a variety of different reasons. These can ...

competing in the women's –45 kg division. She is a member of Ankaragücü in

Ankara Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and List of national capitals by area, the largest capital by area in the world. Located in the Central Anatolia Region, central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5,290,822 in its urban center ( ...

Major results

She won the silver in the Snatch event and the bronze medal in the

Clean and jerk The clean and jerk is a composite of two weightlifting movements, most often performed with a barbell: the clean and the jerk. During the ''clean'', the lifter moves the barbell from the floor to a racked position across the deltoids, without rest ...

event, taking the bronze medal in the total at the

2021 European Weightlifting Championships The 2021 European Weightlifting Championships took place in Moscow, Russia, from 3 to 11 April 2021. Medal table Note: Daniyar İsmayilov, who originally won the gold medal in the men's 73kg event, was disqualified after he tested positive for ...

held in

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, Russia.

References

2001 births Living people Sportspeople from Ankara Turkish female weightlifters European Weightlifting Championships medalists 21st-century Turkish sportswomen {{turkey-weightlifting-bio-stub