| Şaziye Erdoğan | |
| Full Name: | Şaziye Erdoğan-Okur |
| Nationality: | Turkish |
| Birth Date: | 1992 2, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Ankara, Turkey |
| Height: | 153 cm |
| Weight: | 45 kg |
| Country: | Turkey |
| Sport: | Weightlifting |
| Event: | –45 kg |
| Coach: | Talat Ünlü, Mustafa Doğan, Erkan Kayır and Nurcihan Gönül |
Şaziye Erdoğan-Okur (born February 23,1992)[1] 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.[2]
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.[1]
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.[3] [4]
She is trained by Talat Ünlü, Mustafa Doğan, Erkan Kayır and Nurcihan Gönül.[1]
In 2013, Okur was banned from international competition by the International Weightlifting Federation for 2 years for use of anabolic steroid Stanozolol.[5]
She won the bronze medal in the women's 45kg event at the 2021 World Weightlifting Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.[6] [7]
She won the gold medal in the women's 45kg event at the 2022 European Weightlifting Championships held in Tirana, Albania.[8] [9] She won the bronze medal in the women's 49kg Snatch and Clean & Jerk events at the 2022 Mediterranean Games held in Oran, Algeria.[10]
| Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=60 | 1 | width=60 | 2 | width=60 | 3 | width=45 | Rank | width=60 | 1 | width=60 | 2 | width=60 | 3 | width=45 | Rank |
| World Championships | |||||||||||||||
| 2019 |  Pattaya, Thailand | 45 kg | 73 | 75 | 77 | 90 | 92 | 169 | |||||||
| 2021 |  Tashkent, Uzbekistan | 74 | 76 | 93 | 169 | ||||||||||
| European Championships | |||||||||||||||
| 2019 |  Batumi, Georgia | 45 kg | 70 | 73 | 75 | 88 | 163 | ||||||||
| 2022 |  Tirana, Albania | 45 kg | 71 | 73 | 88 | 90 | - | 163 | |||||||
| Mediterranean Games | |||||||||||||||
| 2018 |  Tarragona, Spain | 48 kg | 74 | 78 | 93 | 96 | 174 | 1 | |||||||
| 2022 | Oran, Algeria | 49 kg | 73 | 75 | 92 | 95 | 170 | 3 | |||||||
| Islamic Solidarity Games | |||||||||||||||
| 2017 |  Baku, Azerbaijan | 48 kg | 70 | 74 | 90 | 93 | 166 | ||||||||