Muammer Şahin (born 5 February 1994) is a
Turkish weight lifter competing in the 55 kg division.
Personal life
Muammer Şahin was born in
Kayseri
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, Turkey on 5 February 1994.
Sport career
Şahin won the gold medal in the snatch event and the bronze medal in total at the 56 kg division of the
2013 Junior World Weightlifting Championships held in
Lima
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, Peru.
In the 55 kg division of the
2019 European Weightlifting Championships in
Batumi
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, Georgia, he took the silver medal in the snatch and the bronze medal in the clean & jerk event, winning the bronze medal in total.
In 2021, he captured the silver medal in the 55 kg snatch event at the
European Weightlifting Championships in
Moscow
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, Russia.
He took the bronze medal in the 55 kg snatch event at the
2021 World Weightlifting Championships in
Tashkent
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, Uzbekistan.
He received the silver medal in the 55 kg snatch event at the
2023 European Weightlifting Championships in
Yerevan
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, Armenia.
He won the gold medal in the 55 kg snatch event at the
2024 European Weightlifting Championships in
Sofia
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, Bulgaria.
Achievements
References
External links
IWF
IWRP
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1994 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Kayseri
Turkish male weightlifters
European Weightlifting Championships medalists
21st-century Turkish sportsmen