Ergün Batmaz

Ergün Batmaz — Biography

Ergün Batmaz is a weightlifter who competed in the 70 kg class and became European champion in Rijeka in 1997. After his competitive career he turned to coaching and trained Turkey's national weightlifting teams.

He began to emerge as one of Turkey's leading weightlifters in the late 1980s and represented Turkey at the 1988 Seoul and 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. At the 1993 World Championships in Melbourne he won silver in the 70 kg class, and at the 1995 Championships in Guangzhou he took bronze; in 1993 he also finished second at the Mediterranean Games in the 70 kg class. At the European Championships between 1990 and 1998 he collected five medals: one gold, one silver and three bronze. Across the World and European Championships he totaled one gold, two silver and four bronze medals, and his career peak was the European title won in Rijeka in 1997.

After his years as an athlete he coached both the men's and women's national weightlifting teams as well as the club Büyükşehir Belediye Ankaraspor.