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 Place2022European Championships Manchester G-4 1stSweden Open Stockholm G-1 2nd 2021European Championships Sofia G-4 2nd WT Presidents Cup - Europe Istanbul G-1 3rd 2020European Clubs Championships Zagreb G-1 1stGerman Open Hamburg G-1 1stFujairah Open Fujairah G-1 3rd2019Extra European Championships Bari G-4 2nd Dutch Open Nijmegen G-1 3rdUS Open Las Vegas G-1 3rd2018Grand Prix Moscow G-4 3rd Grand Prix Rome G-4 3rdEuropean U-21 Championships Warsaw G-4 3rdBelgian Open Lommel G-1 1st Spanish Open Alicante G-1 3rdEgypt Open Alexandria G-1 3rdSofia Open Sofia G-1 3rd 2017World Championships Rabat G-12 1st European U-21 Championships Sofia G-4 3rd European Clubs Championships Antalya G-1 3rd2016WT 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 2014European Clubs Championships Antalya G-1 1st Turkish Open Antalya G-1 2nd Trelleborg Open Trelleborg G-1 3rd2013European Youth Championships PortoG-4 3rd
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