Background
He was born in Bulgaria to parents of Turkish ethnicity.
He was born in Bulgaria to parents of Turkish ethnicity.
He is seen as a great talent by authorities. In 1989, the family emigrated to Turkey where they settled first in the Batıkent neighborhood of Yenimahalle, Ankara before later moving to Pursaklar, Ankara. In 1994, Taner began weightlifting in Pursaklar.
Taner Sağır is the younger brother of Olympic weightlifter Nezir Sağır.
Sağır, 1.70 m tall, is a student of physical education and sports. Muharrem Süleymanoğlu and Osman Nuri Vural coach him at the Demirspor Club in Ankara, Turkey.
As he is somewhat baby-faced, he was in a few commercials at the Athens in 2004. He did not finish after three failures in the snatch event at the 2008 Summer.
He has not competed in a major event since 2008, owing to a spinal disc injury.
The couple has a child. The family resides in Ankara on a street named after him. 2004 ing list for the category "Men 77 kg" is as following:.
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 to became the youngest Olympic champion in weightlifting history. On August 30, 2008, he married Sibel Güler, a two-time European taekwondo champion and also an immigrant from Bulgaria.
