Ömer Topuz

Ömer Topuz (born September 17, 1939 in Çankırı , † October 5, 2012 in Ankara ) was a Turkish wrestler . He was the European heavyweight champion in the Greco-Roman style in 1969 .

Career

Ömer Topuz joined the police at the age of 18 and started wrestling at Emniyet Spor Kulübünde Ankara , a police sports club. So although he only started wrestling at the age of 18, he managed to advance into the Turkish and the expanded world of wrestling within a few years. As a rule, top wrestlers start wrestling between the ages of five and ten and therefore already have the necessary technical equipment for an international career by the time they reach senior age.

Ömer Topuz, who took to the mat in both Greco-Roman style and free style, certainly owed his relatively rapid progress to his coaches Hamit Balamir , Celal Atik , Yaşar Doğu and Nasuh Akar .

Ömer Topuz only began his international career at the age of 27. His sharpest rivals were the multiple world and European champion Ahmet Ayık , but also Alaettin Yıldırım , Gürbüz Lü and Giyasettin Yılmaz .

In 1969 Omar Topuz was at the European Championships in Greco-Roman. Style in Modena European super heavyweight champion. Victories over Walter Kleemann from Denmark and Arne Robertsson from Sweden as well as a draw against Giuseppe Marcucci from Italy were enough for him . The same year he also started at the European Championship in free style in Sofia , finishing there in the heavyweight division after beating Wieslaw Bochenski from Poland and Enache Panait from Romania , a draw against Wilfried Dietrich from Germany and one defeat against Shota Lomidse from the Soviet Union to third Space.

In the years 1970 to 1975 he started at several other world and European championships, but could no longer place himself in the medal ranks. The most remarkable individual result he achieved was a draw against multiple world champion Alexandar Tomow from Bulgaria at the 1970 World Cup in Edmonton in Greco-Roman style.

International success

year	space	competition	style	Weight class
1966	4th	Balkan Championships in Ljubljana	GR	Heavy	behind Donew, Bulgaria , Nicolae Martinescu , Romania a . Miodrag Citakovic , Yugoslavia
1967	1.	Mediterranean Games in Tunis	GR	Semi-difficult	before Josip Čorak , Yugoslavia a. Vito Loiacono, Italy
1967	11.	World Cup in Bucharest	GR	Semi-difficult	with a victory over Caj Malmberg, Sweden a . Defeats against Bojan Radew , Bulgaria a . Nicolae Martinescu
1968	12.	EM in Skoplje	F.	Heavy	after defeats against Alexander Medvedev , USSR a . Osman Duraliew , Bulgaria
1969	1.	EM in Modena	GR	Super heavy	with victories over Walter Kleemann, Denmark a . Arne Robertsson , Sweden a . a tie against Giuseppe Marcucci , Italy
1969	3.	EM in Sofia	F.	Super heavy	with victories over Wieslaw Bochenski, Poland a . Enache Panait, Romania, a tie against Wilfried Dietrich , Germany a . a loss to Shota Lomidze , USSR
1970	5.	EM in Berlin	GR	Super heavy	with a victory over Franz Labjon, GDR , a draw against Istvan Semeredi , Yugoslavia u. Defeats against Anatoly Kochnev , USSR a. Edward Wojda, Poland
1970	5.	World Cup in Edmonton	F.	Super heavy	with victories over Niamsuren Purevsuren, Mongolia , Moslem Eskander Filabi , Iran a . Istvan Semeredi et al. a loss to Gregory Wojciechowski , USA
1970	8th.	World Cup in Edmonton	GR	Super heavy	with a draw against Alexandar Tomow u. a loss to Anatoly Roschtschin , USSR
1971	1.	Mediterranean Games in Izmir	GR	Super heavy	in front of Lofti Ameira, Egypt a . Giuseppe Marcuci
1971	7th	World Cup in Sofia	GR	Super heavy	with a victory over Tomomi Tsuruta, Japan a . Defeats against Alexandar Tomow u. Anatoly Roschtschin
1972	9.	EM in Katowice	GR	Super heavy	after defeats against Petr Kment , ČSSR u. Victor Dolipschi , Romania
1973	5.	World Cup in Helsinki	GR	Super heavy	with a win over Roland Svensson, Sweden, a draw against Istvan Semeredi u. Victor Dolipschi et al. a loss to Marek Galinski, Poland
1973	6th	World Cup in Tehran	GR	Super heavy	with a victory over Jamshid Noushad, Iran a. Defeats against Alexandar Tomow u. József Csatari , Hungary
1974	5.	EM in Madrid	GR	Super heavy	with victories over Ebbe Thorup, Denmark a. Karl-Heinz Gerdsmeier , FRG a. a loss to Alexandar Tomov
1974	7th	World Cup in Katowice	GR	Super heavy	after a defeat against Roman Codreanu , Romania and a disqualification in the fight against Lorenz Hecher , FRG (both wrestlers disqualified due to passivity)
1975	1.	Mediterranean Games in Algiers	GR	Super heavy	before Dandji, Yugoslavia a. Hassan Ali Bechara , Lebanon
1975	6th	EM in Ludwigshafen am Rhein	GR	Super heavy	with a victory over Lorenz Hecher u. Defeats against Zygmunt Andrecki , Poland a. Roman Codreanu

Note:
WM: World
Championship EM: European Championship
GR: Greco-Roman style
F: Freestyle
light heavyweight: up to 1968 over 97 kg
heavyweight: up to 1968 over 97 kg
super heavyweight: from 1969 over 100 kg

swell

• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships , 1976,
• Trade magazines Athletik and Der Ringer ,
• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig
• Turkish "Who is Who?"

Web links

• Profile of Ömer Topuz at the Institute for Applied Training Science

supporting documents

1. ↑ Şampiyon son yolculuğuna uğurlandı , Turkish , accessed November 10, 2012