Nurcan Taylan
Personal information
NationalityTurkish
Born (1983-10-29) 29 October 1983
Ankara, Turkey
Height1.52 m (5 ft 0 in)
Weight48 kg (106 lb)
Sport
CountryTurkey
SportWeightlifting
Event– 48 kg
ClubYenimahalle Sports Club, Ankara
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
  • Snatch: 97.5 kg (2004)
  • Clean and jerk: 112.5 kg (2004)
  • Total: 210 kg (2004)
Medal record
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2004 Athens– 48 kg
World Championships
Disqualified2010 Antalya–48 kg
Silver medal – second place2002 Warsaw–48 kg
Bronze medal – third place2003 Vancouver–48 kg
Disqualified2009 Goyang–48 kg
European Championships
Gold medal – first place2003 Loutraki–53 kg
Gold medal – first place2004 Kyiv–53 kg
Gold medal – first place2008 Lignano Sabbiadoro–48 kg
Disqualified2009 Bucharest–48 kg
Disqualified2010 Minsk–48 kg
Disqualified2011 Kazan–48 kg
Silver medal – second place2007 Strasbourg–48 kg
Disqualified2014 Tel Aviv–48 kg
Disqualified2015 Tbilisi–48 kg
Bronze medal – third place2002 Antalya–48 kg
Mediterranean Games
Gold medal – first place 2005 Almería – 53 kg
Disqualified 2009 Pescara – 53 kg

Nurcan Taylan (born 29 October 1983 in Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish Olympic, world and European champion in weightlifting. She holds six European and one world record (and tied two more world records). She was banned by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) after she tested positive for the anabolic steroid Methandienone for two years starting on 26 October 2011.

Career

She was born in Mamak, Ankara as the third child of a poor family from the town of Hafik in Sivas, Central Anatolia. Taylan was discovered aged 11 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 (5 ft) tall, she lifted two World and five Olympic records in the women's 48 kg category at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Taylan is Turkey's first ever female Olympic gold medalist.[1]

Scandals

In September 2004, a Turkish court ordered the arrest of the coach of the Turkish women's weightlifting team, Mehmet Üstündağ, after three female athletes filed complaints of sexual harassment against him. In court, Üstündağ denied allegations of repeated physical sexual molestation going back several years, fielded by Sibel Şimşek, Aylin Daşdelen and Şule Şahbaz, all of them members of the Turkish women's team at the 2004 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 had come 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.

Doping case

She was banned by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) after she tested positive for the anabolic steroid Methandienone for four years starting on 26 October 2011. Taylan missed the London Olympics.[2][3]

In October 2012, her suspension was shortened to two years that would allow her to return to action on 26 October 2013.[4]

DQ and change results

Taylan was disqualified (DQ) and all results were invalidated from 2008 Summer Olympics to 2016 Summer Olympics.[5][6][7][8]

Major results

https://iwf.sport/weightlifting_/athletes-bios/?athlete=taylan-nurcan-1983-10-29&id=91

  • Team Points: 28-25-23-22-21-20-19-18-17-16-15-14-13-12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 points are distributed for the 1st to 25th place for the individual lifts and the total.

Disqualified from 24 Medals:

  1. 2G,5S,1B (8 Medals) in World Championships
  2. 10G,2S,2B (14 Medals) in Euro Championships
  3. 2G (2 Medals) in Mediterranean Games
YearVenueWeightRank
Snatch Cl&Jerk Total Team Points
Olympic Games
2004 Greece48 kg——1st place, gold medalist(s)—
2008 China48 kg——NM—
World Championships
2002 Poland48 kg2nd place, silver medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)75
2003 Canada48 kg3rd place, bronze medalist(s)53rd place, bronze medalist(s)67
2007 Thailand48 kg3rd place, bronze medalist(s)NMNM23
2009 South Korea48 kg2nd place, silver medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)73
2010 Turkey48 kg1st place, gold medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)81
2014 Kazakhstan48 kg2nd place, silver medalist(s)42nd place, silver medalist(s)72
2015 United States48 kg19212018
Mediterranean Games
2005 Spain53 kg1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)——
2009 Italy53 kg1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)——
European Championships
2002 Turkey48 kg2nd place, silver medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)71
2003 Greece53 kg1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)84
2004 Ukraine53 kg1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)84
2007 France48 kg3rd place, bronze medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)73
2008 Italy48 kg2nd place, silver medalist(s)2nd place, silver medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)78
2009 Romania48 kg1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)84
2010 Belarus48 kg1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)84
2011 Russia48 kg1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)1st place, gold medalist(s)84
2014 Israel48 kg42nd place, silver medalist(s)3rd place, bronze medalist(s)70
2015 Georgia48 kg1st place, gold medalist(s)42nd place, silver medalist(s)75
2016 Norway48 kg3rd place, bronze medalist(s)5466

Achievements

Olyimpic Games
RankDisciplineSnatchClean&JerkTotalPlaceDate
 Gold48 kg97.5 CWR210.0 WRAthens, GREAugust 14, 2004
 Silver48 kg112.5
World Championships
RankDisciplineSnatchClean&JerkTotalPlaceDate
 Gold48 kg93.0121.0 WR214.0Antalya, TUR18 September 2010
 Silver48 kg90.0115.0Goyang, KORNovember 21, 2009
 Bronze48 kg205.0
 Silver48 kg87.5105.0192.5Warsaw, POL19 November 2002
 Bronze48 kg85.0187.5Vancouver, B.C., CANNovember 18, 2003
548 kg102.5
European Championships
RankDisciplineSnatchClean&JerkTotalPlaceDate
 Gold48 kg90.0105.0195.0Kazan, RUS11 April 2011
 Gold48 kg90.0118.0208.0Minsk, BLR5 April 2010
 Gold48 kg88.0108.0196.0Bucharest, ROM6 April 2009
 Gold48 kg87.0109.0196.0Lignano Sabbiadoro, ITA2 April 2008
 Gold53 kg95.5 ER115.5 ER210.0Kyiv, UKR20 April 2004
 GoldJ 53 kg95.0 ER115.0 ER210.0 ERLoutraki, GRE15 April 2003
 GoldJ 48 kg87.5 ER105.0 ER192.5 ERWarsaw, POL19 November 2002

Mediterranean Games

RankDisciplineSnatchClean&JerkTotalPlaceDate
 Gold53 kg87.0 MR108.0 MRAlmería, ESP26 June 2005
  • J: Junior
  • CWR: Current world record
  • WR: World record
  • ER: European record
  • MR: Mediterranean record

World rank

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

RankAthleteSnatchClean&JerkTotalPlaceDate
1Nurcan Taylan, TUR97.5112.5210.0Athens, GRE14 August 2004
2Zhuo Li, CHN90.0115.0205.0Almaty, Kazakhstan7 April 2004
3Wei Gao, CHN90.0110.0200.0Minsk, BLR24 May 2004
3=Aree Wiratthaworn, THA85.0115.0200.0Athens, GRE14 August 2004

References

  1. ↑ "Olimpiyatta İlk "Altın Kadın": Nurcan Taylan". BİA (in Turkish). 16 August 2004. Archived from the original on 3 February 2007.
  2. ↑ "Sanctioned athletes - 2011". IWF.net. International Weightlifting Federation. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
  3. ↑ "Turkish weightlifting champion Nurcan Taylan receives 4-year ban for doping, misses Olympics". The Washington Post. Associated Press. 14 June 2012. Archived from the original on 8 September 2019. Retrieved 14 June 2012.
  4. ↑ "Nurcan Taylan'ın cezası 2 yıla indirildi". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 6 October 2012. Archived from the original on 9 October 2012. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
  5. ↑ "Nurcan TAYLAN". IWF.net. International Weightlifting Federation. Archived from the original on 16 April 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
  6. ↑ "Sanctions". IWF.sport. International Weightlifting Federation. Archived from the original on 23 July 2021. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
  7. ↑ "Nurcan TAYLAN". IWF.sport. International Weightlifting Federation. Archived from the original on 26 August 2021. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
  8. ↑ https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1042181/iwf-awaiting-cas-and-ioc-verdicts-before-pressing-ahead-with-weightlifting-suspensions
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