Duygu Alıcı (born 14 January 2001) is a Turkish

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competing in the 49 kg division.

Sports career

Alıcı started performing weightlifting at the age of twelve in the middle school with the encouragement of her art teacher. She won several competitions in her country, such as the first place in Interscholastic championship, first places in U15 and U17 divisions, and broke the youth record in the Clean & Jerk event with 55 kg. She became champion in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2022, she competed in the 55 kg division at the Turkish Senior Weightlifting Championships, and lifted 80 kg in the Snatch and 105 kg in the Clean & Jerk event. Alıcı won the silver medal in the 49 kg Snatch event with 78 kg at the 2024 European Weightlifting Championships held in

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, Bulgaria.

Personal career

Duygu Alıcı was born in

Gaziantep Gaziantep, historically Aintab and still informally called Antep, is a major city in south-central Turkey. It is the capital of the Gaziantep Province, in the westernmost part of Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Region and partially in the Medi ...

, Turkey on 14 January 2001. She has a twin sister Burcu, and a two-year younger sister Züleyha, who also perform weightlifting. Alıcı is a student of

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in the School of Physical Education and Sport at

Istanbul Gelişim University Istanbul Gelişim University () is a private non-profit university in Istanbul, Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace i ...

References

2001 births Living people Sportspeople from Gaziantep Turkish female weightlifters European Weightlifting Championships medalists 21st-century Turkish sportswomen Istanbul Gelişim University alumni {{Turkey-weightlifting-bio-stub