Ali Rıza Alan

Ali Rıza Alan (born March 3, 1947 ) is a former Turkish wrestler and 1970 free style flyweight world champion .

Career

Ali Rıza Alan began as a teenager in Tokat with the rings . He developed into an excellent freestyle wrestler with the coaches Hidir Koyunoğlu and Ali Yücel . In 1969 Ali Rıza replaced the then best Turkish flyweight Mehmet Esenceli in the national team and made his debut at an international championship at the 1969 European Championships in Sofia . He fought very well there, won four fights, but lost in the 5th round against Baju Baew from Bulgaria and reached 4th place. Ali could not take part in the World Cup in Mar del Plata that year because Turkey did not send a team there.

At the 1970 European Championships in Berlin , Ali Rıza then won his first medal at an international championship, the silver one. In the final he lost again to Baju Baew. At the 1970 World Cup in Edmonton , Ali Rıza was lucky. He won three fights and lost to Mohammad Ghorbani from Iran , but still got the world title thanks to a bye and a particularly lucky constellation in the pairing.

1971 and 1972 followed two weaker years for Ali Rıza. He finished only 7th at the 1971 World Cup, although he was unlucky because of an injury in the 4th fight. At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich , he only came in 9th place. His defeat against the Indian Sudesh Kumar was particularly surprising .

In 1973, 1974 and 1975 Ali Rıza won three runner-up titles. In 1973 he became vice European champion in Lausanne after a defeat against Arsen Alachwerdiew from the Soviet Union , in 1974 he became vice world champion in Istanbul . He managed an impressive victory over the new Soviet star Roman Dmitriew and in 1975 he became vice European champion again in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , this time winning against Arsen Alachwerdiew, but losing to Ognjan Nikolow from Bulgaria and Władysław Stecyk from Poland .

Ali Rıza resigned after the World Championships in Minsk in 1975 , where he only finished 10th, back, but remained the wrestling as a coach in Tokat.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = free style, Fl = flyweight)

• 1969, 4th place , EM in Istanbul , F, Fl, with victories over Giuseppe Bognanni , Italy , Willi Bock , GDR , Mario Sabattini , FRG , and André Gaudinot , France , and one defeat against Baju Baew , Bulgaria ;
• 1970, 2nd place , EM in Berlin , F, Fl, with victories over Pavel Urbanek, Czechoslovakia , Petre Ciarnău , Romania, Vincenzo Grassi , Italy , and Willi Bock and one defeat against Banju Baew;
• 1970 , 1st place , World Championships in Edmonton , F, Fl, with victories over André Gaudinot, Aminula Nasrulajew , USSR, and Paul Neff , FRG, and despite a defeat against Mohammad Ghorbani , Iran ;
• 1971, 3rd place , tournament in Yambol , F, Fl, behind Vaerdiew and Mintschew, both Bulgaria;
• 1971, 7th place , World Championship in Sofia , F, Fl, with victories over Gordon Bertie, Canada , Josef Klimčak, Czechoslovakia and Mario Sabattini, then retired after injury in the fight against Dojodovyn Ganbat, Mongolia ;
• 1972, 9th place , OS in Munich , F, Fl, with victories over Willi Bock and Kim Young-Jun, South Korea , and defeats against Sudeh Kumar , India , and Kim Gwong Hyong, North Korea ;
• 1973, 3rd place , tournament in Bucharest , F, Fl, behind Dariush, Iran, and Petre Ciarnau;
• 1973, 2nd place , EM in Lausanne , F, Fl, with victories over Willy Aschwanden, Switzerland , Jürgen Möbius , GDR, Henrik Gál , Hungary , and Władysław Stecyk , Poland , and with a defeat against Arsen Alachwerdiew , USSR;
• 1973, 6th place , World Cup in Tehran , F, Fl, with victories over Kim Hun Him, North Korea, Kim Young-Jun and Ion Arapu, Romania, and defeats against Arsen Alachwerdiew and Ibrahim Javadi , Iran;
• 1974, 8th place , EM in Madrid , F, Fl, with a victory over Ion Arapu and defeats against Ognjan Nikolow , Bulgaria, and Telman Paschajew , USSR;
• 1974, 2nd place , World Cup in Istanbul , F, Fl, with victories over Wieslaw Kończak, Poland, Mario Sabattini, Petre Ciarnau, Roman Dmitriew , USSR, and one defeat against Yūji Takada , Japan ;
• 1975, 2nd place , EM in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , F, Fl, with victories over Mario Sabattini, Maurice Bourdin, France, Henryk Gál and Arsen Alachwerdiew and defeats against Ognjan Nikolow and Wladyslaw Stecyk;
• 1975, 10th place , World Championship in Minsk , F, Fl, after defeats against Wladysllaw Stecyk and Henriyk Gál

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• 1) Div. Issues of the specialist magazine "Athletik" from 1969 to 1975,
• 2) International Database of the University of Leipzig,
• 3) Documentation of FILA International Wrestling Championships, 1976

Web links

• Ali Rıza Alan in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Short portrait of Ali Rıza Alan in Turkish