Zeliha Ağrıs (born 20 January 1998) is a Turkish taekwondo practitioner who became a world champion in the bantamweight category in 2017.
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| Born | 20 January 1998 Beyşehir, Konya Province, Turkey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | Bantamweight | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Private life
editZeliha 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
editShe 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 Telleborg 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]
Tournament record
edit| Year | Event | Location | G-Rank | Place |
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| 2022 | European Championships |  Manchester |
G-4 | 1st |
| Sweden Open |  Stockholm |
G-1 | 2nd | |
| 2021 | European Championships |  Sofia |
G-4 | 2nd |
| WT Presidents Cup - Europe |  Istanbul |
G-1 | 3rd | |
| 2020 | European Clubs Championships |  Zagreb |
G-1 | 1st |
| German Open |  Hamburg |
G-1 | 1st | |
| Fujairah Open |  Fujairah |
G-1 | 3rd | |
| 2019 | Extra European Championships |  Bari |
G-4 | 2nd |
| Dutch Open |  Nijmegen |
G-1 | 3rd | |
| US Open |  Las Vegas |
G-1 | 3rd | |
| 2018 | Grand Prix |  Moscow |
G-4 | 3rd |
| Grand Prix | Rome |
G-4 | 3rd | |
| European U-21 Championships |  Warsaw |
G-4 | 3rd | |
| Belgian Open |  Lommel |
G-1 | 1st | |
| Spanish Open |  Alicante |
G-1 | 3rd | |
| Egypt Open |  Alexandria |
G-1 | 3rd | |
| Sofia Open | Sofia |
G-1 | 3rd | |
| 2017 | World Championships |  Rabat |
G-12 | 1st |
| European U-21 Championships | Sofia |
G-4 | 3rd | |
| European Clubs Championships | Antalya |
G-1 | 3rd | |
| 2016 | WT Presidents Cup - Europe | Bonn |
G-1 | 1st |
| Serbia Open |  Belgrad |
G-1 | 1st | |
| German Open | Hamburg |
G-1 | 2nd | |
| Croatia Open | Zagreb |
G-1 | 2nd | |
| European Clubs Championships | Antalya |
G-1 | 3rd | |
| European Championships |  Montreux |
G-4 | 3rd | |
| 2014 | European Clubs Championships | Antalya |
G-1 | 1st |
| Turkish Open | Antalya |
G-1 | 2nd | |
| Trelleborg Open | Trelleborg |
G-1 | 3rd | |
| 2013 | European Youth Championships |  Porto |
G-4 | 3rd |
References
edit- ^ "Zeliha Ağrıs". olimpiyatkomitesi.org.tr (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". Habrtürk (in Turkish). 25 November 2020. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
External links
edit- Zeliha Ağrıs at TaekwondoData.com
- Zeliha Ağrıs at the Turkish National Olympic Committee (in Turkish)
