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Zeliha Ağrıs

Personal information
Born	(1998-01-20) 20 January 1998 (age 26) Beyşehir, Konya Province, Turkey
Education	Sports science
Alma mater	Selçuk University
Years active	2008–
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Sport
Country	Turkey
Sport	Taekwondo
Event	Bantamweight
Medal record Women's taekwondo Representing  Turkey World Championships 2017 Muju 53 kg European Championships 2022 Manchester 53 kg 2021 Sofia 53 kg 2016 Montreux 53 kg Islamic Solidarity Games 2017 Baku 53 kg 2021 Konya 53 kg World Grand Prix 2018 Rome 49 kg 2018 Moscow 49 kg European U21 Championships 2018 Warsaw 53 kg 2017 Sofia 53 kg European Junior Championships 2013 Porto 55 kg

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. She grew up in Konya, where her father runs a restaurant.

She was a very energetic girl in her childhood. 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. She started performing taekwondo at age ten. Her parents supported her later on.

She is a student in the School of Sports science at Selçuk University in Konya.

Sport career

She debuted internationally at the 2011 European Cadets Taekwondo Championships held in Tbilisi, Georgia, competing in the -41 kg event.

She won her first international medal at the 2013 European Junior Taekwondo Championships in Porto, Portugal, reaching bronze in the -55 kg event. In 2014, she took the silver medal in the -55 kg event at the Telleborg Open in Sweden. Ağrıs received the gold medal at the 2015 European Junior Taekwondo Championships in Daugavpils, Latvia. She captured the bronze medal at the 2016 European Taekwondo Championships in Montreux, Switzerland. She took the bronze medal at the ETU European Under 21 Taekwondo Championships 2017 in Sofia, Bulgaria, the silver medal at the 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games in Baku, Azerbaijan, 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. She had beaten the bronze medallist, Dinorahon Mamadibragimova, in the semi-final before beating Tatiana Kudashova 11–8 in the final.

Ağrıs won a bronze medal in Rome, another in Moscow at the 2018 World Taekwondo Grand Prix. The same year, she won another bronze medal at the European Taekwondo Under 21 Championships in Warsaw. At the G4 Extra European Taekwondo Championships held in Bari, Italy, in 2019, she captured the silver medal in the -53 kg event. In 2020, she won the gold medal at the 8th Open European Clubs Championships in Zagreb, Croatia. She won the silver medal in the -53 kg event at the 2021 European Taekwondo Championships in Sofia.

Tournament record

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

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. ^ "Beyşehir'in Gururu Zeliha Ağrıs, Avrupa İkincisi oldu". BGRT (in Turkish). 10 April 2021. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
4. ^ "Babası ile antrenörüne oyun kurdu, dünya şampiyonu oldu". Cumhuriyet (in Turkish). 20 February 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
5. ^ "Milli tekvandocu Zeliha Ağrıs: Totemim yok, duam var benim". Anadolu News Agency (in Turkish). 23 January 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
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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.
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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.

External links

• Zeliha Ağrıs at TaekwondoData.com
• Zeliha Ağrıs at the Turkish National Olympic Committee (in Turkish)

• 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
• Islamic Solidarity Games medalists in taekwondo
• 21st-century Turkish sportswomen
• Islamic Solidarity Games bronze medalists for Turkey
• Medalists at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games