Gamze Altun
| File:Weightlifting at the 2025 Islamic Solidarity Games 19.jpg Altun (centre) at the 2025 Islamic Solidarity Games | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 29 July 2003 Tarsus, Mersin, Turkey |
| Alma mater | Selçuk University |
| Height | 1.55 m (5 ft 1 in) |
| Weight | 45 kg (99 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Country | File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey |
| Weight class | 48 kg |
Medal record | |
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Gamze Altun (born 29 July 2003) is a Turkish weightlifter competing in the 45 kg division. She is a native of Tarsus, Mersin, southern Turkey.[1]
Sport career
[edit | edit source]Altun took the siver medal in the 45 kg clean and jerk event at the 2023 European Weightlifting Championships in Yerevan, Armenia.[2][3] At the 2024 European Weightlifting Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, she won the gold medal in the Clean & Jerk event with 92 kg and the silver medal in total with 157 kg. Her lift in Clean & Jerk became the new European U23 record.[4]
Gamze Altun ranked fifth in the women's 45 kg weightlifting category at the 2025 European Weightlifting Championships in Chișinău, Moldova, winning the fifth medal with 68 kg in the snatch, gold with 93 kg in the jerk and bronze with 161 kg in total.[5]
| Year | Competition | Venue | Weight | Snatch | Clean & Jerk | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (kg) | Rank | (kg) | Rank | (kg) | Rank | ||||
| 2023 | European Championships | Armenia Yerevan, Armenia | 45 kg | 63 | 5th | 89 | 2nd place, silver medalist(s) | 152 | 4th |
| World Junior Championships | Spain Guadalajara, Spain | 45 kg | 63 | 10th | 91 | 1st place, gold medalist(s) | 154 | 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) | |
| 2024 | European Championships | Bulgaria Sofia, Bulgaria | 45 kg | 65 | 5th | 92 EU23R |
1st place, gold medalist(s) | 157 | 2nd place, silver medalist(s) |
| 2025 | European Championships | Moldova Chișinău, Moldova | 45 kg | 68 | 5th | 93 | 1st place, gold medalist(s) | 161 | 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) |
| World Championships | Norway Førde, Norway | 48 kg | - | - | 99 | 11th | - | - | |
References
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- 2003 births
- Living people
- People from Tarsus, Mersin
- Sportspeople from Mersin
- Selçuk University alumni
- Turkish female weightlifters
- European Weightlifting Championships medalists
- Islamic Solidarity Games competitors for Turkey
- Islamic Solidarity Games gold medalists for Turkey
- Islamic Solidarity Games medalists in weightlifting
- Medalists at the 2025 Islamic Solidarity Games
- 21st-century Turkish sportswomen