Zeliha Ağrıs (born 20 January 1998) is a Turkish taekwondo practitioner who became a world champion in the bantamweight category in 2017.

Zeliha Ağrıs
Personal information
Born (1998-01-20) 20 January 1998 (age 26)
Beyşehir, Konya Province, Turkey
EducationSports science
Alma materSelçuk University
Years active2008–
Height1.74 m (5 ft 8+12 in)
Sport
CountryTurkey
SportTaekwondo
EventBantamweight
Medal record
Women's taekwondo
Representing  Turkey
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2017 Muju 53 kg
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Manchester 53 kg
Silver medal – second place 2021 Sofia 53 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Montreux 53 kg
Islamic Solidarity Games
Silver medal – second place 2017 Baku 53 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Konya 53 kg
World Grand Prix
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Rome 49 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Moscow 49 kg
European U21 Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Warsaw 53 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Sofia 53 kg
European Junior Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Porto 55 kg

Private life

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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

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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 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

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Year Event Location G-Rank Place
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

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  1. ^ "Zeliha Ağrıs". olimpiyatkomitesi.org.tr (in Turkish). Türkiye Milli Olimpiyat Komitesi. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  2. ^ Aslan, Erkan (13 December 2018). "Güçlü Tekmeleriyle Rakiplerini Dize Getiren Dünya Şampiyonu Milli Tekvandocumuz Zeliha Ağrıs". listelist (in Turkish). Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Beyşehir'in Gururu Zeliha Ağrıs, Avrupa İkincisi oldu". BGRT (in Turkish). 10 April 2021. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d "Babası ile antrenörüne oyun kurdu, dünya şampiyonu oldu". Cumhuriyet (in Turkish). 20 February 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  5. ^ a b c "Milli tekvandocu Zeliha Ağrıs: Totemim yok, duam var benim". Anadolu News Agency (in Turkish). 23 January 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  6. ^ "Zeliha Ağrıs Avrupa şampiyonu". Yeni Meram (in Turkish). Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  7. ^ "Yıldızlarda Avrupa Şampiyonu Türkiye" (in Turkish). Türkiye Taekwondo Federasyonu. 9 July 2011. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  8. ^ "Türkiye, Avrupa Gençler Tekvando Şampiyonası'nda 10 madalya topladı". TRT Haber (in Turkish). 28 September 2013. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  9. ^ "Trelleborg Open 2014 Tamamlandı" (in Turkish). Türkiye Taekwondo Federasyonu. 5 February 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  10. ^ "Servet Tazegül 5. kez Avrupa şampiyonu". Anadolu News Agency (in Turkish). 20 May 2016. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  11. ^ "Turkish Taekwondo Team Returns from Sofia with 10 Medals". Turkish Olympic Committee. 10 April 2017. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  12. ^ "Kadın tekvandoculardan Bakü'de büyük başarı". Sözcü (in Turkish). 19 May 2017. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  13. ^ < "Zeliha Ağrıs Dünya Şampiyonu". Milliyet (in Turkish). 28 June 2017. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  14. ^ "Turkey's Agris bags gold in women's Taekwondo". www.aa.com.tr. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  15. ^ "Zeliha Ağrıs, Roma'dan madalya ile dönüyor". Sözcü (in Turkish). 3 June 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  16. ^ "Zeliha Ağrıs'tan bronz madalya!". Milliyet (in Turkish). 12 August 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  17. ^ "Türkiye tekvandoda Avrupa ikincisi". Cumhuriyet (in Turkish). 2 November 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  18. ^ "Tekvando Avrupa Şampiyonası'nda İrem Yaman'dan Türkiye'ye altın madalya". euronews (in Turkish). 2 November 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  19. ^ "Altın madalya Zeliha Ağrıs'ın". Habrtürk (in Turkish). 25 November 2020. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
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