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 –77 kg snatch, clean and jerk and total.

Muharrem Süleymanoğlu and Osman Nuri Vural coach him at the Demirspor Club in Ankara, Turkey.

He has not competed in a major event since 2008, owing to a spinal disc injury.

[1] On 30 August 2008 he married Sibel Güler, a two-time European taekwondo champion and a fellow immigrant from Bulgaria.