Zeliha Ağrıs
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Born | Beyşehir, Konya Province, Turkey | 20 January 1998||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Education | Sports science | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Selçuk University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years active | 2008– | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Turkey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Taekwondo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Bantamweight | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Zeliha Ağrıs (born 20 January 1998) is a Turkish taekwondo practitioner who became a world champion in the bantamweight category in 2017.
Private life[]
Zeliha Ağrıs was born in Beyşehir, Konya Province, Turkey, on 20 January 1998.[1][2][3] She grew up in Konya, where her father runs a restaurant.[4]
She was a very energetic girl in her childhood.[5] She was impressed by taekwondo practitioners performing in a nearby gym. In the beginning, her father was not willing to let his daughter perform taekwondo. A trainer in the gym persuaded her father.[4] She started performing taekwondo at age ten.[4][5] Her parents supported her later on.[5]
She is a student in the School of Sports science at Selçuk University in Konya.[6]
Sport career[]
She debuted internationally at the 2011 European Cadets Taekwondo Championships held in Tbilisi, Georgia, competing in the -41 kg event.[7]
She won her first international medal at the 2013 European Junior Taekwondo Championships in Porto, Portugal, reaching bronze in the -55 kg event.[8] In 2014, she took the silver medal in the -55 kg event at the Open in Sweden.[9] Ağrıs received the gold medal at the 2015 European Junior Taekwondo Championships in Daugavpils, Latvia.[4] She captured the bronze medal at the 2016 European Taekwondo Championships in Montreux, Switzerland.[10] She took the bronze medal at the ETU European Under 21 Taekwondo Championships 2017 in Sofia, Bulgaria,[11] the silver medal at the 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games in Baku, Azerbaijan,[12] and the gold medal at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships in Muju, South Korea, in the bantamweight category when she was 19 years of age.[13] She had beaten the bronze medallist, Dinorahon Mamadibragimova, in the semi final before beating Tatiana Kudashova 11-8 in the final.[14]
Ağrıs won a bronze medal in Rome,[15] another in Moscow at the 2018 World Taekwondo Grand Prix.[16] The same year, she won another bronze medal at the European Taekwondo Under 21 Championships in Warsaw.[17] At the G4 Extra European Taekwondo Championships held in Bari, Italy, in 2019, she captured the silver medal in the -53 kg event.[18] In 2020, she won the gold medal at the 8th Open European Clubs Championships in Zagreb, Croatia.[19] She won the silver medal in the -53 kg event at the 2021 European Taekwondo Championships in Sofia.[3]
References[]
- ^ "Zeliha Ağrıs" (in Turkish). Türkiye Milli Olimpiyat Komitesi. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ Aslan, Erkan (13 December 2018). "Güçlü Tekmeleriyle Rakiplerini Dize Getiren Dünya Şampiyonu Milli Tekvandocumuz Zeliha Ağrıs". listelist (in Turkish). Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ a b "Beyşehir'in Gururu Zeliha Ağrıs, Avrupa İkincisi oldu". BGRT (in Turkish). 10 April 2021. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ a b c d "Babası ile antrenörüne oyun kurdu, dünya şampiyonu oldu". Cumhuriyet (in Turkish). 20 February 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ a b c "Milli tekvandocu Zeliha Ağrıs: Totemim yok, duam var benim". Anadolu News Agency (in Turkish). 23 January 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ "Zeliha Ağrıs Avrupa şampiyonu". Yeni Meram (in Turkish). Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ "Yıldızlarda Avrupa Şampiyonu Türkiye" (in Turkish). Türkiye Taekwondo Federasyonu. 9 July 2011. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ "Türkiye, Avrupa Gençler Tekvando Şampiyonası'nda 10 madalya topladı". TRT Haber (in Turkish). 28 September 2013. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ "Trelleborg Open 2014 Tamamlandı" (in Turkish). Türkiye Taekwondo Federasyonu. 5 February 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ "Servet Tazegül 5. kez Avrupa şampiyonu". Anadolu News Agency (in Turkish). 20 May 2016. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ "Turkish Taekwondo Team Returns from Sofia with 10 Medals". Turkish Olympic Committee. 10 April 2017. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ "Kadın tekvandoculardan Bakü'de büyük başarı". Sözcü (in Turkish). 19 May 2017. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ < "Zeliha Ağrıs Dünya Şampiyonu". Milliyet (in Turkish). 28 June 2017. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ "Turkey's Agris bags gold in women's Taekwondo". www.aa.com.tr. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
- ^ "Zeliha Ağrıs, Roma'dan madalya ile dönüyor". Sözcü (in Turkish). 3 June 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ "Zeliha Ağrıs'tan bronz madalya!". Milliyet (in Turkish). 12 August 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ "Türkiye tekvandoda Avrupa ikincisi". Cumhuriyet (in Turkish). 2 November 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ "Tekvando Avrupa Şampiyonası'nda İrem Yaman'dan Türkiye'ye altın madalya". euronews (in Turkish). 2 November 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ "Altın madalya Zeliha Ağrıs'ın". (in Turkish). 25 November 2020. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
External links[]
- Zeliha Ağrıs at TaekwondoData.com
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- 1998 births
- Living people
- People from Beyşehir
- Sportspeople from Konya
- Turkish female taekwondo practitioners
- World Taekwondo Championships medalists
- European Taekwondo Championships medalists
- Selçuk University alumni