Ali Kayalı

Ali Kayalı (born January 29, 1965 in Bulgaria ) is a former Turkish wrestler .

Life

Kayali belonged to the Turkish minority in Bulgaria and learned to wrestle there. Due to the strong competition in Bulgaria, however, he did not appear in international championships. In 1990 he therefore moved to Turkey and became a member of the Etibank SAS sports club. Under coach Musa Ali Tunali, he was accepted into the Turkish national team of freestyle wrestlers.

In 1991 he played his first star in an international championship. At the European Championships in Stuttgart he surprised the wrestling world by winning the European heavyweight title. However, his narrow points victory in the final over the Russian Andrei Golowko was controversial. At the world championship of the same year in Varna , he could not convince, dropped out early and ended up on the disappointing 14th place.

In 1992 he first took 3rd place in the heavyweight division at the European Championships in Kaposvár and at the Olympic Games in Barcelona he succeeded in winning the bronze medal with a victory over the Korean Kim Tae-woo . Also in 1993 he won two medals. At the European Championships in Istanbul he finished third and at the World Championships in Toronto he was only defeated by Leri Chabelowi from Russia and became vice world champion. Kayali won another medal at the European Championships in Rome in 1994 . In the heavyweight division he was defeated in his pool by Heiko Balz from Luckenwalde with 2: 5 points, but won the fight for 3rd place over the Ukrainian Alexej Netchipurenko.

However, he was injured after these championships and had to take a break. In 1996 he tried again at the European Championships in Budapest , but had to be content with 10th place. He also failed to qualify for the Olympic Games in Atlanta that year .

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = Freestyle, S = Heavyweight, back then up to 100 kg body weight)

• 1990, 2nd place , "Yasar Dogu" memorial in Istanbul , F, S, behind Arawat Sabejew , USSR and in front of Mohammed Jafarhod, Iran ;
• 1991, 1st place , EM in Stuttgart , F, S, ahead of Andrei Golowko, USSR , Heiko Balz , Germany , Andrzej Radomski , Poland , Kostas Avramis, Greece and Sandor Kiss, Hungary ;
• 1991, 1st place , Mediterranean Games in Athens , F, S, ahead of Avramis and Ali Eldress, Egypt ;
• 1991, 14th place , World Cup in Varna , F, S, winner: Leri Chabelowi , USSR ahead of Mark Coleman , USA and Heiko Balz;
• 1991, 1st place , “Yasar Dogu” Memorial in Istanbul, F, S, in front of Sandor Kiss and Mahmut Demir , Turkey;
• 1992, 3rd place , EM in Kaposvár , F, S, behind Leri Chabelowi and Heiko Balz and in front of Kiss, Arvi Aavik , Estonia and Patros Bourdoulis, Greece;
• 1992, bronze medal , OS in Barcelona , F, S, behind Leri Chabelowi and Heiko Balz and in front of Kim Tae-woo , Korea, Andrzej Radomski , Poland and Subhash Verma, India ;
• 1992, 1st place , “Yasar Dogu” memorial in Istanbul, D, S, ahead of Ömer Aslantas and Senol Karagöz, both Turkey;
• 1993, 3rd place , EM in Istanbul, F, S, behind Arawat Sabejew , Germany and Alexej Netchipurenko, Ukraine and in front of Krassimir Kotschew, Bulgaria, Marek Garmulewicz , Poland and Aarvik;
• 1993, 2nd place , World Championships in Toronto , F, S, behind Leri Chabelowi and in front of Heiko Balz, Kim Tae-woo, Netchipurenko and Milan Mazac , Slovakia ;
• 1994, 3rd place , EM in Rome , F, S, behind Garmulewicz and Balz and in front of Netchipurenko, Gabor Toth, Hungary and Aavik;
• 1996, 10th place , EM in Budapest , F, S, winner: Garmulewicz ahead of Mazac and David Musuľbes , Russia

swell

• International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig
• Trade journal "Der Ringer", numbers 05/91, 10/91, 05/92, 09/92, 05/93, 04/94 and 05/96

Web links

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