Nurcan Taylan

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Medal record
Women's Weightlifting
Olympic Games
Gold	2004 Athens	48 kg
World Championships
Silver	2003 Vancouver, B.C., Canada	48 kg
Bronze	2002 Warsaw, Poland	48 kg
European Championships
Gold	2004 Kiev, Ukraine	53 kg
Mediterranean Games
Gold	2005 Almería, Spain	53 kg
European Junior Championships
Gold	2003 Loutraki, Greece	53 kg
Gold	2002 Warsaw, Poland	48 kg

Nurcan Taylan (born October 29, 1983 in Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish Alevi Olympic and European champion in weightlifting. She holds six European and one world record (and tied two more world records).

She was born in Mamak, Ankara as the third child of a poor family originating from the town of Zara in Sivas, eastern Central Anatolia. Taylan was discovered at age of eleven by the Turkish national athlete and her later coach Mehmet Üstündağ as he was her teacher in physical education at the Mamak Secondary School in Ankara.

Only 1.52 m tall, she lifted two World and five Olympic records in the women’s 48 kg category at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Nurcan Taylan is Turkey's first ever female Olympic gold medalist.^[1]

She is student of physical education and sports and member of the Yenimahalle Club in Ankara.

Contents 1 Medals 2 World rank 3 Her coach’s scandal 4 External links 5 References

[edit] Medals

Olympics

Rank	Discipline	Snatch	Clean&Jerk	Total	Place	Date
1	48 kg	97.5 CWR		210.0 CWR	Athens, GRE	Aug 14, 2004
2	48 kg		112.5		Athens, GRE	Aug 14, 2004

World Championships

Rank	Discipline	Snatch	Clean&Jerk	Total	Place	Date
2	48 kg	87.5	105.0	192.5	Warsaw, POL	Nov 19, 2002
3	48 kg	85.0		187.5	Vancouver, B.C., CAN	Nov 18, 2003
5	48 kg		102.5		Vancouver, B.C., CAN	Nov 18, 2003

European Championships

Rank	Discipline	Snatch	Clean&Jerk	Total	Place	Date
1	53 kg	95.5 ER	115.5 ER	210.0	Kiev, UKR	Apr 20, 2004
1	J 53 kg	95.0 ER	115.0 ER	210.0 ER	Loutraki, GRE	Apr 15, 2003
1	J 48 kg	87.5 ER	105.0 ER	192.5 ER	Warsaw, POL	Nov 19, 2002

Mediterranean Games

Rank	Discipline	Snatch	Clean&Jerk	Total	Place	Date
1	53 kg	87.0 MR	108.0 MR		Almería, ESP	Jun 26, 2005

• J: Junior
• CWR: Current world record
• ER: European record
• MR: Mediterranean record

[edit] World rank

2004 World ranking list for the category "Women 48 kg" is as following:

Rank	Athlete	Snatch	Clean&Jerk	Total	Place	Date
1	Nurcan Taylan, TUR	97.5	112.5	210.0	Athens, GRE	Aug 14, 2004
2	Zhuo Li, CHN	90.0	115.0	205.0	Almaty, Kazakhstan	Apr 7, 2004
3	Wei Gao, CHN	90.0	110.0	200.0	Minsk, BLR	May 24, 2004
3=	Aree Wiratthaworn, THA	85.0	115.0	200.0	Athens, GRE	Aug 14, 2004

[edit] Her coach’s scandal

A Turkish court in September 2004 ordered the arrest of the coach of the Turkish women’s weightlifting team Üstündağ after three women athletes filed complaints of sexual harassment against him. Ustundag denied in court allegations of repeated physical sexual molestation going back several years, fielded by Sibel Şimşek, Aylin Daşdelen and Şule Şahbaz, all members of the Turkish women's team at the Athens Olympics.

But the court ordered him to be placed under detention in view of the "alleged crime's nature, the evidence collected and feelings of anger it has inspired in the public". The allegations first hit the media in early September when the three athletes gave extensive interviews to newspapers and television channels. Daşdelen told a television news program that Üstündağ also made it a habit of "beating" his charges, going so far as to blame the trainer for the 1999 suicide of teammate Esma Can. The only support for Üstündağ came from Taylan, who in turn accused her three teammates of being "lesbians". Turkish sports officials immediately launched an official investigation. Üstündağ came under investigation on similar charges four years ago, but the evidence was inconclusive.

The Turkish Weightlifting Federation did not allow Taylan to participate at the 2005 European Weightlifting Championship held in Sofia, Bulgaria between April 17 and April 25.

[edit] External links

• International Weightlifting Federation

[edit] References