Hurşit Atak
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Nationality | Turkish | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Şırnak, Turkey | May 24, 1991||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 62 kg (137 lb; 9.8 st) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Turkey | ||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | –62 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||
Club | ASKİ Sports Club, Ankara | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Hurşit Atak (born May 24, 1991) is a Turkish weightlifter competing in the −62 kg division.[1] He is a native of Şırnak in southeastern Turkey.[2] Currently, he is a member of the ASKİ Sports Club in Ankara.[3]
Career
[edit]Hırşit Atak was born to a village guard father in Şırnak on May 23, 1991. He has fourteen siblings, one of them being his twin brother.[4]
Atak became champion already at the national high school tournament held 2005 in Konya. In 2006, he became national champion in his age category in Aydın.[2]
At the 2010 World Junior Championship held in Sofia, Bulgaria, he won three silver medals in the 62 kg division.[1] Atak won the silver medal in the Clean&Jerk category and the bronze medal lifting 289.0 kg in total at the 2011 European Championships in Kazan, Russia.[4] At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he finished in 5th in the -62 kg division, with a total 302 kg.[5] He won the gold medal in Clean&Jerk and in total at the 2016 European Championships held in Førde, Norway.[6]
Medals
[edit]- European Championships
Rank | Discipline | Snatch | Clean&Jerk | Total | Place | Date |
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–62 kg | 170.0 | ![]() |
Apr 10–16, 2016 | ||
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296.0 | |||||
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–62 kg | 161.0 | ![]() |
Apr 11–17, 2011 | ||
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289.0 |
- World Junior Championships
Rank | Discipline | Snatch | Clean&Jerk | Total | Place | Date |
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–62 kg | 126.0 | ![]() |
June 11–20, 2010 | ||
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160.0 | |||||
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286.0 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Hurşit Atak' tan 3 Gümüşlü Dünya İkinciliği..." (in Turkish). Türkiye Halter Federasyonu. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2011-04-16.
- ^ a b "Haltercilerin Hedefi Büyük". Şırnak Haber (in Turkish). Retrieved 2011-04-16.
- ^ "Hurşit Çok Atak!..." (in Turkish). ASKİ Spor. Retrieved 2011-04-16.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b "15 kardeşli şampiyon". EuroSport (in Turkish). Retrieved 2016-04-12.
- ^ "Hursit Atak Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 14 January 2020. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
- ^ "Avrupa Halter Şampiyonası'nda Türkiye'den 3 altın madalya". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2016-04-11. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
External links
[edit]- Hurşit Atak at the International Weightlifting Federation
- Hurşit Atak at the International Weightlifting Results Project
- Hurşit Atak at Olympics.com
- Hurşit Atak at Olympic.org (archived)
- Hurşit Atak at Olympedia
- 1991 births
- Sportspeople from Şırnak
- Living people
- Turkish male weightlifters
- Olympic weightlifters for Turkey
- Weightlifters at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Kurdish sportsmen
- European champions for Turkey
- European Weightlifting Championships medalists
- 21st-century Turkish sportsmen
- European weightlifting biography stubs
- Asian weightlifting biography stubs
- Turkish sportspeople stubs