Sibel Güler

Sibel Güler Sağır
Personal information
Birth nameSibel Güler
Nationality Turkey
Born (1984-09-28) 28 September 1984 (age 40)
Bulgaria
Height1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Weight63 kg (139 lb)
Sport
CountryTurkey
SportTaekwondo
Event67 kg
ClubTSE Spor Kulübü
Medal record
Women's taekwondo
Representing  Turkey
Universiade
Silver medal – second place 2007 Bangkok 67 kg
Gold medal – first place 2005 Izmir 67 kg
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Rome 67 kg
Gold medal – first place 2006 Bonn 67 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2005 Riga 67 kg
Gold medal – first place 2004 Lillehammer 67 kg

Sibel Güler Sağır (born September 28, 1984, in Bulgaria) is a Turkish taekwondo practitioner.[1] She is a four-time medalist and two-time defending champion at the European Taekwondo Championships since 2004. She also claimed the middleweight division title at the 2005 Summer Universiade in Izmir, but won a silver medal at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand, losing out to Chinese Taipei's Lin An-Ni in the final match.[2]

Guler competed for the women's middleweight category (67 kg) at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after defeating Greek taekwondo jin and Olympic silver medalist Elisavet Mystakidou in the final match of the European Qualification Tournament in Istanbul.[3] She lost the first preliminary match to Argentina's Vanina Sánchez, who was able to score four points at the end of the game.[4]

Family life

She was born to Cevat Güler and his wife Gülten, a Turkish family in Bulgaria. Sibel has a brother Sunay.[5]

Sibel Güler was interested in swimming before she immigrated to Turkey with her family in 1989. During her school years in Turkey, she played in the volleyball team. In 1995, she began with taekwondo supported by her mother. With gaining success, she was transferred to TSE club in Ankara.[5][6]

Güler studied at the School of Physical Education and Sports of Ankara University[7] graduating in 2008. She has been a member of the Turkish women's national taekwondo team since 2000.[6]

On August 30, 2008, she married Taner Sağır, a world and Olympic weightlifting champion and a fellow immigrant from Bulgaria. The couple has a child. The family resides in Ankara in a street named after Sağır.[6][8]

References

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Sibel Güler". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
  2. ^ Wu, Chen (31 January 2008). "Thailand, Iran, Chinese Taipei split taekwondo titles at Universiade". Xinhua News Agency. Archived from the original on August 22, 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
  3. ^ "WTF European Taekwondo Qualification Tournament Wraps Up in Success in Istanbul, Turkey". World Taekwondo Federation. 31 January 2008. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
  4. ^ "Women's 67kg (148 lbs) Preliminary Round of 16". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 4 January 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
  5. ^ a b Karadaş, Bülent (30 May 2006). "Havlu atılıp elenecekken altın madalyaya uzandı". Zaman (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 18 April 2013. Retrieved 15 December 2012.
  6. ^ a b c "Söyleşi‹: Mezunlarımız - Sibel Güler Sağır" [Interview: Alumni – Sibel Güler Sağır] (PDF) (in Turkish). Ankara Üniversitesi. Retrieved 15 December 2012.
  7. ^ "Taekwondo Kafilesi Listesi" (PDF) (in Turkish). Universiade 2005 Izmir. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
  8. ^ "Şampiyonlar evlendi" [Married champions]. Hürriyet (in Turkish). 30 August 2008. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 December 2012.