Zeliha Ağrıs
Personal information
Born (1998-01-20) 20 January 1998
Beyşehir, Konya Province, Turkey
EducationSports science
Alma materSelçuk University
Years active2008–
Height1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Sport
CountryTurkey
SportTaekwondo
EventBantamweight
Medal record
Women's taekwondo
Representing  Turkey
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2017 Muju53 kg
European Championships
Gold medal – first place2022 Manchester53 kg
Silver medal – second place2021 Sofia53 kg
Bronze medal – third place2016 Montreux53 kg
Islamic Solidarity Games
Silver medal – second place 2017 Baku53 kg
Bronze medal – third place2021 Konya 53 kg
World Grand Prix
Bronze medal – third place2018 Rome49 kg
Bronze medal – third place2018 Moscow49 kg
European U21 Championships
Bronze medal – third place2018 Warsaw53 kg
Bronze medal – third place2017 Sofia53 kg
European Junior Championships
Bronze medal – third place2013 Porto55 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.[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

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
Year Event Location G-Rank Place
2022European ChampionshipsUnited Kingdom ManchesterG-41st
Sweden OpenSweden StockholmG-12nd 
2021European ChampionshipsBulgaria SofiaG-42nd 
WT Presidents Cup - EuropeTurkey IstanbulG-13rd 
2020European Clubs ChampionshipsCroatia ZagrebG-11st
German OpenGermany HamburgG-11st
Fujairah OpenUnited Arab Emirates FujairahG-13rd
2019Extra European ChampionshipsItaly BariG-42nd 
Dutch OpenNetherlands NijmegenG-13rd
US OpenUnited States Las VegasG-13rd
2018Grand PrixRussia MoscowG-43rd 
Grand PrixItaly RomeG-43rd
European U-21 ChampionshipsPoland WarsawG-43rd
Belgian OpenBelgium LommelG-11st 
Spanish OpenSpain AlicanteG-13rd
Egypt OpenEgypt AlexandriaG-13rd
Sofia OpenBulgaria SofiaG-13rd 
2017World ChampionshipsMorocco RabatG-121st 
European U-21 ChampionshipsBulgaria SofiaG-43rd   
European Clubs ChampionshipsTurkey AntalyaG-13rd
2016WT Presidents Cup - EuropeGermany BonnG-11st 
Serbia OpenSerbia BelgradG-11st  
German OpenGermany HamburgG-12nd 
Croatia OpenCroatia ZagrebG-12nd 
European Clubs ChampionshipsTurkey AntalyaG-13rd 
European ChampionshipsFrance MontreuxG-43rd  
2014European Clubs ChampionshipsTurkey AntalyaG-11st  
Turkish OpenTurkey AntalyaG-12nd  
Trelleborg OpenSweden TrelleborgG-13rd
2013European Youth ChampionshipsPortugal PortoG-43rd

References

  1. ↑ "Zeliha Ağrıs" (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. 1 2 "Beyşehir'in Gururu Zeliha Ağrıs, Avrupa İkincisi oldu". BGRT (in Turkish). 10 April 2021. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Babası ile antrenörüne oyun kurdu, dünya şampiyonu oldu". Cumhuriyet (in Turkish). 20 February 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  5. 1 2 3 "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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