Zeliha Ağrıs

Zeliha Ağrıs was born in Beyşehir, Konya Province, Turkey, on 20 January 1998.[1][2][3] She grew up in Konya, where her father runs a restaurant.[4]

She was a very energetic girl in her childhood.[5] 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.[4] She started performing taekwondo at age ten.[4][5] Her parents supported her later on.[5]

She is a student in the School of Sports science at Selçuk University in Konya.[6]

She debuted internationally at the 2011 European Cadets Taekwondo Championships held in Tbilisi, Georgia, competing in the -41 kg event.[7]

She won her first international medal at the 2013 European Junior Taekwondo Championships in Porto, Portugal, reaching bronze in the -55 kg event.[8] In 2014, she took the silver medal in the -55 kg event at the Telleborg Open in Sweden.[9] Ağrıs received the gold medal at the 2015 European Junior Taekwondo Championships in Daugavpils, Latvia.[4] She captured the bronze medal at the 2016 European Taekwondo Championships in Montreux, Switzerland.[10] She took the bronze medal at the ETU European Under 21 Taekwondo Championships 2017 in Sofia, Bulgaria,[11] the silver medal at the 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games in Baku, Azerbaijan,[12] 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.[13] She had beaten the bronze medallist, Dinorahon Mamadibragimova, in the semi-final before beating Tatiana Kudashova 11–8 in the final.[14]

Ağrıs won a bronze medal in Rome,[15] another in Moscow at the 2018 World Taekwondo Grand Prix.[16] The same year, she won another bronze medal at the European Taekwondo Under 21 Championships in Warsaw.[17] At the G4 Extra European Taekwondo Championships held in Bari, Italy, in 2019, she captured the silver medal in the -53 kg event.[18] In 2020, she won the gold medal at the 8th Open European Clubs Championships in Zagreb, Croatia.[19] She won the silver medal in the -53 kg event at the 2021 European Taekwondo Championships in Sofia.[3]

• Zeliha Ağrıs at TaekwondoData.com