Caner Toptaş (born 14 August 2001) is a Turkish
weightlifter
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. He won the silver medal in the
62 kg
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event at the
2018 Summer Youth Olympics
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held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
At the
2017 European Junior & U23 Weightlifting Championships held in Durrës, Albania, he won the silver medal in the men's 56 kg event.
In 2019, he won the gold medal in the men's 61 kg event at the
Junior World Weightlifting Championships
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held in Suva, Fiji.
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Living people
2001 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
Turkish male weightlifters
Weightlifters at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
21st-century Turkish people
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