Ercan Yıldız

Ercan Yıldız (born May 29, 1974 in Kırıkkale ) is a former Turkish wrestler . In 1997 he was world champion in Greco-Roman wrestling in the flyweight .

Career

Ercan Yıldız started wrestling in his native town in 1988. His first club was Kırıkkale Belediye Spor Kulübü . In the course of his career he started for B. Belediye Istanbul and for Ankara MTA Spor Kulübünde . He decided on the Greco-Roman style and was u. a. trained by Gazi Özbilgin, Haluk Koc, Hakkı Başar and Ibrahim Yildirim. The 1.63 meter tall athlete competed in flyweight and bantamweight as an adult. He studied sport and became a university teacher after finishing his wrestling career. He is also the 2nd chairman of the Turkish Wrestling Association.

At the beginning of his international career as a wrestler, Ercan Yıldız started in 1994 at the European Junior Championships (Espoirs) in Istanbul in the flyweight division, where he finished second behind Armen Nasarjan from Armenia . In the same year he was already used at the World Championships for Seniors in Tampere , but retired there early and only finished 27th. The next appearances of Ercan Yıldız at international championships were not very successful. In 1995 he came in 16th place at the European Championships in Besançon and 13th in the World Championships in Prague . He missed the jump to the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and at the 1997 European Championships in Kouvola, Finland, he finished only 15th.

Ercan Yıldız made his big breakthrough at the 1997 World Cup in Wroclaw . He won there in flyweight over Tero Eerik Katajisto from Finland with a tie of 2: 2 by a referee decision, then he won just over Dilshod Aripov from Uzbekistan (3: 2 technical points) and then with 1: 0 tech. Points over Andrij Kalaschnykow from Ukraine , Simeon Milew from Bulgaria and Vahan Juharjan from Armenia . With these five narrow points victories, he became world champion without having fully convinced. On the other hand, with these victories he also proved his ability to make close fights victorious.

At the 1998 European Championships in Minsk Ercan Yıldız lost after winning three fights against Marian Sandu from Romania and thus reached 7th place. He did much worse at the 1998 World Cup in Gävle / Sweden , because he was eliminated there after narrowly 2-1 defeats against Barys Radkewitsch from Belarus and Shawn Sheldon from the United States and ended up in 20th place.

It was not much better for him in 1999 when he had to face the jury against himself at the European Championships in Sofia after defeating Zigmunds Jansons from Latvia in the fight against Marian Sandu with a tie of 3: 3 and only finished 12th. At the 1999 World Cup in Athens he lost his first fight against the North Korean Kang Yong Gyun and was only able to advance to 20th place with a victory over Francesco Costantino from Italy .

In 2000 he qualified for participation in the Olympic Games in Sydney . He lost there in flyweight against the Cuban Lazaro Rivas Scull his first fight (0:10 technical points). Then he won over Jotham Pellew from New Zealand (16: 0 technical points), but lost his third fight against Natig Aiwasow from Azerbaijan and only reached 11th place.

At the 2001 European Championships in Istanbul , Ercan Yıldız achieved the second major success of his wrestling career. He was there runner-up European champion , where he had to bow to the Pole Dariusz Jabłoński in the final . Another good place he achieved at the 2002 World Championships in Moscow , where he reached 6th place in bantamweight with two wins.

At the end of his international wrestling career, he took part again in the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 . In bantamweight he lost to Irakli Chochua from Georgia and won over Svajunas Adomaitis from Lithuania , which he reached 12th place.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class
1994	2.	Junior European Championship (Espoirs) in Istanbul	To fly	behind Armen Nazarjan , Armenia , in front of Oleg Nemtschenko , Russia a . Grigori Buliga, Moldova
1994	27.	World Cup in Tampere	To fly	Winner: Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan , Germany ahead of Natig Aiwasow , Azerbaijan a . Andrij Kalaschnykow , Ukraine
1995	16.	EM in Besançon	To fly	Winner: Armen Nasarjan ahead of Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan u. Andrii Kalaschnykov
1995	13.	World Cup in Prague	To fly	Winner: Samuel Danieljan , Russia in front of Armen Nazarjan u. Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan
1997	15th	EM in Kouvola	To fly	Winner: Dariusz Jabłoński , Poland ahead of Farhat Mageramow , Belarus a . Oleg Nemchenko, Russia
1997	3.	Mediterranean Games in Bari	To fly	behind Khaled Al-Faraj , Syria a . Francesco Costantino , Italy
1997	1.	World Cup in Wroclaw	To fly	with victories over Tero Eerik Katajisto , Finland , Dilshod Aripov , Uzbekistan , Andrij Kalaschnykow, Ukraine , Simeon Milew, Bulgaria and others. Vahan Juharjan , Armenia
1997	4th	World Cup in Tehran	To fly	behind Boris Ambarzumow , Russia, Sim Kwon-ho , South Korea u. Ali Ashkani Agboloag, Iran
1998	7th	EM in Minsk	To fly	after defeat against Farhat Mageramow , Belarus , victories over Armin Heiss, Austria , Petr Svehla , Czech Republic a . Vahan Juharjan et al. a loss to Marian Sandu , Romania
1998	20th	World Cup in Gävle / Sweden	To fly	after defeating Vicente Lillo Garcia, Spain a . Defeats against Barys Radkewitsch , Belarus a . Shawn Sheldon , USA
1999	12.	EM in Sofia	To fly	after victory over Zygmunds Jansons, Latvia a . Lost to Marian Sandu
1999	5.	CISM Military World Cup in Zagreb	Bantam	behind Rustam Mambetow, Russia, Kang Kyung-il, South Korea, Roman Waschuk, Ukraine u. Pasi Huhtala, Finland
1999	20th	World Cup in Athens	To fly	after losing to Kang Yong Gyun , North Korea a . Victory over Francesco Costantino
2000	1.	Olympic qualification tournament in Faenza	To fly	before Wang Hui, China a . Natig Aivazov
2000	6th	Olympic qualification tournament in Tashkent	To fly	Winner: Wang Hui ahead of Shamseddin Chudaiberdijew, Uzbekistan
2000	3.	Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Colorado Springs	To fly	behind uranium Chalilow, Kyrgyzstan u. Dariusz Jabłoński
2000	3.	Olympic qualification tournament in Alexandria	To fly	behind Aljaksandr Paulau , Belarus a. Sergei Sobokar, Ukraine
2000	11.	OS in Sydney	To fly	after defeat against Lazaro Rivas Scull , Cuba , victory over Jotham Pellew, New Zealand a . Defeat against Natig Aivazov
2001	2.	EM in Istanbul	To fly	behind Barys Radkewitsch, in front of Dariusz Jabłoński , Alexei Schewzow, Russia and Stoitschko Iwanow, Bulgaria
2001	5.	World Cup in Levallois-Perret	Bantam	behind Alexei Schewzow, Djamel Ainaoui, France , James Grunwald, USA a. Seref Tüfenk, Turkey
2002	6th	World Cup in Moscow	Bantam	with victories over Rachimdschan Assembekow, Kazakhstan a . Kim Holk, Sweden a. a loss to Hassan Rangraz, Iran
2003	2.	"Nikola Petrov" tournament in Sofia	Bantam	behind Bayram Özdemir , Turkey , in front of Oleg Kutscherenko , Germany, Boris Ambarzumow u. Iwo Angelow , Bulgaria
2003	16.	World Cup in Créteil	Bantam	after defeats against Irakli Chochua , Georgia a . Hassan Rangraz et al. Victory over Mukesh Khatri, India
2003	5.	World Cup in Alma-Ata	Bantam	behind Asset Imanbajew, Kazakhstan, Gaidar Mamedalijew, Russia, Irakli Chochua u. Sergei Petrov, Russia
2004	2.	Olympic qualification tournament in Novi Sad	Bantam	behind Brandon Paulson , USA, in front of István Majoros , Hungary a . Irakli Chochua
2004	12.	OS in Athens	Bantam	after losing to Irakli Chuchua u. Victory over Svajunas Adomaitis, Lithuania

Note: all competitions in the Greco-Roman style, OS = Olympic Games, World Cup = World Championship, EM = European Championship, flyweight, until 1996 up to 52 kg, from 1997 to 2001 up to 54 kg, then abolished, bantamweight, from 1997 to 2001 to 58 kg, since 2002 up to 55 kg body weight

swell

• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig,
• Trade journal Der Ringer

Web links

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