Ahmet Bilek

Ahmet Bilek (July 1953)

Ahmet Bilek (born March 15, 1932 in Kula , Manisa ; † October 4, 1970 in Bischmisheim , Germany ) was a Turkish wrestler . He was Olympic champion in Rome in 1960 in free style flyweight.

Career

Like most of the top Turkish wrestlers, Ahmet Bilek began as a youth in Eskişehir in the Turkish national sport of oil wrestling . In his youth he found his way to Olympic wrestling and quickly developed into an excellent wrestler in both styles at the "Demirspor" Eskişehir wrestling club. In 1950, as a 17-year-old, he was already there when an Izmir / Eskişehir national team wrestled against the German national team. At that time he was defeated by Heinrich Weber (Ringer, 1923) from Göppingen just on points. Against Weber he was defeated in an official international match on points in 1952.

In 1953 he was at the World Cup in Greco-Roman. Used flyweight style in Naples . He immediately hit the mark, won u. a. about the strong wrestlers Dumitru Pârvulescu from Romania and Ignazio Fabra from Italy and failed in the final fight only narrowly due to the Soviet Olympic champion from 1952 Boris Gurewitsch .

In the next few years Ahmet stagnated somewhat and was able to compete against strong competitors in his own country such as B. Dursun Ali Egribas , Hüseyin Akbaş and Mehmet Kartal not enforce. It was not until 1959 that he became Turkish flyweight champion again. At the world championship of the same year in Tehran in free style, he again won the silver medal. Although he remained undefeated, two undecided fights against Mohammad Ali Khojastepour from Iran and Ali Aliyev from the Soviet Union cost him the world title.

But his great moment struck at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome . He won five fights and became Olympic champion despite a loss to Ali Aliyev.

In 1963 he started in Helsingborg for the last time at a world championship. This time he appeared in the Greco-Roman. Style, but could not prevail and only came 8th place.

Then Ahmet Bilek went to the Federal Republic of Germany and competed in the German Bundesliga for the power sports club Köllerbach for many years . After health problems, he committed suicide in 1970.

Ahmet Bilek was married and had a daughter.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, F = freestyle, Fl = flyweight, back then up to 52 kg body weight)

• 1953, 2nd place , World Cup in Naples , GR, Fl, with victories over Dumitru Pârvulescu , Romania , Anton Valteiner, Austria , Edmond Faure, France , Maurice Mewis , Belgium , etc. Ignazio Fabra , Italy a . a loss to Boris Gurevich , USSR ;
• 1955, 1st place , Mediterranean Games in Barcelona , GR, Fl, before Osman, Egypt a . Nahle, Lebanon ;
• 1956, 1st place , "Opatija" cup tournament in Pula , F, Fl, before Völgyi, Hungary a . Karl-Heinz Meyer, FRG ;
• 1959, 2nd place , World Cup in Tehran , F, Fl, with victories over Maurice Mewis, Mohammad Niaz-Din, Pakistan and others. Nikola Dimitrov, Bulgaria a . Draw against Mohammad Ali Khojastepour , Iran u. Ali Aliyev , USSR;
• 1960, gold medal , OS in Rome , F, Fl, with victories over Elliott Simons, USA , Masayuki Matsubara, Japan , Mohammad Niaz-Din, Mohammad Saifepour , Iran u. Paul Neff , FRG a. despite a loss to Ali Aliyev;
• 1963, 8th place , World Championships in Helsingborg , GR, Fl, with victories over Maurice Mewis a. Josef Kolár, CSSR a. Defeats against Angel Keresow, Bulgaria a. Ignazio Fabra

swell

• 1) various issues of the specialist magazine "Athletik" from 1950 to 1963,
• 2) Documentation of FILA International Wrestling Championships, 1976

Web links

• Profile of Ahmet Bilek at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Ahmet Bilek in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )