İsmail Ogan

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İsmail Ogan (born March 5, 1933 in Macun , Elmalı ) is a former Turkish wrestler .

Career

İsmail Ogan comes from Antalya on the southern Turkish Mediterranean coast. After oil wrestling, which he began with, he switched to Olympic wrestling at the age of 17. It wasn't long before he caught the attention of the leading men in the Turkish Wrestling Federation with his very good performances in the national field. He was accepted into the national team of freestyle wrestlers and received Yaşar Doğu and Celal Atik, perhaps the best Turkish wrestling coaches of that time. He appeared on the international wrestling mat in 1957. He wrestled very successfully at five world championships and won three medals. European championships were not held at that time. In his own country he had three tough rivals in İbrahim Zengin , Nuro Ayvar and Mahmut Atalay , against whom he had to prove himself again and again. At the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome , he won the silver medal, beaten only by the US miracle boy Douglas Blubaugh , to whom he was the only opponent to only win a point. In 1964 at the Olympic Games in Tokyo , he was able to convince again and became Olympic welterweight champion.

After the Olympic Games in 1964 İsmail Ogan ended his career as an active wrestler and lived again in Antalya.

International success

OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, F = Freestyle, We = Welterweight, up to 1961 up to 73 kg body weight, from 1961 up to 78 kg body weight, middle weight up to 1961 up to 79 kg

swell

  • Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976
  • various issues of the specialist magazine " Athletik " from the years 1957 to 1964

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personal data
SURNAME Ogan, İsmail
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Macun , Elmalı