Şaziye Erdoğan-Okur (born February 23,1992) is a Turkish weightlifter 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 Ankara, where her father was a construction worker. Already at the age of 11, she started with weightlifting in the primary school in Keçiören, Ankara.
At the 2009 European Weightlifting Junior Championships held in Landskrona, Sweden, 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 International Weightlifting Federation for 2 years for use of anabolic steroid Stanozolol.
She won the bronze medal in the women's 45kg event at the 2021 World Weightlifting Championships 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 2022 Mediterranean Games held in Oran, Algeria.
Major results Year Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank 1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank World Championships2019 Pattaya, Thailand 45 kg 73 75 77 90 92 961692021 Tashkent, Uzbekistan 45 kg 74 767693 95 95169 European Championships2019 Batumi, Georgia 45 kg 70 7375 88 91911632022 Tirana, Albania 45 kg 71 737588 90 - 163Mediterranean Games2018 Tarragona, Spain 48 kg 74 7778 93 9610117412022 Oran, Algeria 49 kg 73 7579 92 95971703Islamic Solidarity Games2017 Baku, Azerbaijan 48 kg 70 74 76 909393166
References
External links
Saziye Okur at Weightlifting Database