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]