Fevzi Şeker

Fevzi Şeker (born July 27, 1962 in Sivas , Turkey, † December 15, 2011 in Elmadağ , Turkey ) was a Turkish wrestler . He was European champion in free style in 1990 in lightweight.

Career

Fevzi Şeker started wrestling in his hometown of Sivas in 1972 . After he had advanced to the national top of freestyle wrestlers as a junior, he moved to the sports club Fatih Güres Külübünde Istanbul . Later he also wrestled for Tofaş SAS Spor Kulübü , Simtel Spor Külübü and İskenderun Demircelik Spor Külübünde . The coaches who mainly looked after him in his career were Servet Meric, Nasuh Akar and Muharrem Atik.

He started his international wrestling career at the age of 17 in 1979. That year he took second place in the lightweight at the Balkan Games in Yambol . In 1981 he came in the Junior World Championships in Vancouver lightweight on an excellent 3rd place. In that year he also started at the European Senior Championships in Lodz , where he won the lightweight with a victory over Janos Zsura from Hungary a . Losses against Karl-Heinz Ruch from Germany and Jukka Rauhala from Finland took 7th place.

In 1983 Fevzi Şeker celebrated his first major success in the senior category at the European lightweight championship in Budapest by winning the European runner-up. He lost in Budapest only in the final against the Bulgarian Kamen Penew . At this year's World Cup in Kiev , he disappointed and only came in 15th without a win.

At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, he reached 3rd place in his pool with two wins and two losses against Masakazu Kamimura from Japan and You In-tak from South Korea . He could only fight for 5th place. He also lost this fight against the Australian Zsigmond Kelevitz and finished 6th.

1985 Fevzi Şeker was again runner-up European lightweight champion in Leipzig . On the way there he conquered u. a. the strong Bulgarian Simeon Schterew . In the final battle he lost to the multiple world champion Arsen Fadsayev from the Soviet Union . Afterwards he also won medals at the European Championships in 1987 in Veliko Tarnovo / Bulgaria and in Martigny / Switzerland . He won there each a bronze medal in the welterweight, in which he had since risen.

At the European Championships in Manchester in 1988 , he only came in 10th place in the welterweight division. At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 he was not used and also at the World Championships in 1989 in Martigny he only came in 10th place.

He achieved the greatest success of his career at the 1990 European Championships in Poznan , where he had trained back into the lightweight. He won there in the final over the German champion Georg Schwabenland just 1-0 techn. Points and became European champion .

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = free style, Le = lightweight, We = welterweight, then up to 68 kg or 74 kg body weight)

• 1979, 2nd place , Balkan Games in Yambol , F, Le, behind Branko Djukic, Yugoslavia a . before Kostadin Janew, Bulgaria ;

• 1980, 2nd place , Balkan Championship in Istanbul , F, Le, behind Zvetan Stefanow, Bulgaria a. before Adnan Elezi, Yugoslavia ;

• 1981, 3rd place , Junior World Championships (Espoirs) in Vancouver , F, Le, behind Rani Arunow, Bulgaria a. Wiktor Krejdisch, USSR , before Kaoru Nakata, Japan a . Erwin Knosp , Germany ;

• 1981, 5th place , Balkan Championship in Pula, F, Le, behind Rani Arunow, Giorgios Athanasiadis , Greece , Constantin Damashin, Romania a . Fadil Majaziti, Yugoslavia;

• 1981, 7th place , EM in Lodz , F, Le, with a victory over Janos Zsura, Hungary a . Defeats against Karl-Heinz Ruch, FRG a. Jukka Rauhala , Finland ;

• 1982, 2nd place , Balkan Games in Thessaloniki , F, Le, behind Boumo Schterew, Bulgaria a. in front of Laszlo Gherghely, Romania a. Giorgios Athanasiadis;

• 1983, 1st place , Mediterranean Games in Casablanca , F, Le, in front of Giorgios Athanasiadis, Eric Brulon, France a . Said Almane, Algeria ;

• 1983, 2nd place , EM in Budapest , F, Le, behind Kamen Penew , Bulgaria and in front of David Guigaouri, USSR, Viliam Hönsch, CSSR , Zoltan Szalontai , Hungary a. Erwin Knosp, Germany;

• 1983, 15th place , World Cup in Kiev , F, Le, winner: Arsen Fadsajew , USSR ahead of Bujandelgeriin Bold , Mongolia a . Kamen Penew;

• 1984, 6th place , OS in Los Angeles , F, Le, m. Wins over Goldstein, Argentina , Vailadares, Peru , Betancourt, Puerto Rico and the like. Singh, India a . Losses against You In-tak , South Korea , Masakazu Kamimura, Japan etc. Zsigmond Kelevitz, Australia ;

• 1985, 2nd place , EM in Leipzig , F, Le, with victories over Cindea, Romania, R. Neyer, Switzerland , Oscar Seghers, Belgium a . Simeon Schterew , Bulgaria a. a loss to Arsen Fadzayev, USSR;

• 1987, 1st place , "Yasar-Dogu" tournament in Istanbul, F, We, ahead of Selahettin Sagan, Turkey a . Ertugrul Colakoglu, Turkey;

• 1987, 3rd place , EM in Veliko Tarnovo , F, We, behind Adlan Varaew , USSR a. Pekka Rauhala , Finland, before Kamen Vesselinow, Bulgaria, Uwe Westendorf , GDR a . Saban Sejdi , Yugoslavia;

• 1987, 1st place , Mediterranean Games in Latakia , F, We, ahead of Joakim Vassiliadis, Greece, Saban Sejdi u. Bruno Bendet, France;

• 1987, 6th place , World Cup in Clermont-Ferrand , F, We, behind Adlan Varaew, David Schultz , USA, Uwe Westendorf, Yoon Kyung-jae , South Korea and others. Raul Cascaret Fonseca , Cuba ;

• 1988, 11th place , EM in Manchester , F, We, winner: Adlan Varaew ahead of Pekka Rauhala u. Rahmat Shukra , Bulgaria;

• 1988, 3rd place , FILA-Grand-Prix in Budapest , F, We, behind János Nagy , Hungary a. Rahmat Shukra et al. before Adlan Varaew u. Istvan Gulyas, Hungary;

• 1989, 1st place , "Yasar-Dogu" tournament in Istanbul, F, We, in front of Packeiser, GDR a. Robert Koll , USA;

• 1989, 3rd place , EM in Ankara , F, We, behind Nasir Gadschichanow , USSR a. Walentin Getzew , Bulgaria, before Krzysztof Walencik, Poland a . Claudiu Tămăduianu , Romania;

• 1989, 10th place , World Cup in Martigny / Switzerland, F, We, winner: Kenneth Monday , USA ahead of Arsen Fadsajew u. Lodoin Enchbajar , Mongolia;

• 1990, 1st place , "Yasar-Dogu" tournament in Istanbul, F, We, ahead of Selahettin Yigitt, Turkey a. Igor Kosyr, USSR;

• 1990, 1st place , EM in Posen , F, Le, ahead of Georg Schwabenland , FRG, Abdullah Magomedow, USSR, Giorgios Athanasiadis u. Valentin Getzow;

• 1990, 2nd place , World Cup in Toledo (Ohio) , F, We, behind Sagid Murtazaliew , USSR a. before Robert Koll u. Ed Sernoski, Canada

At the end of 1990 he ended his wrestling career.

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer , numbers: 5/1981, 6/1981, 6/1982, 9/1983, 10/1983, 9/1984, 5/1985, 6/1987, 9/1987, 6/1988, 5/1989, 9/1989 5/1990,
• Website of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig,
• Website "www.turkforum.gen.tr"

1. ↑ Sports Reference: Fevzi Şeker

Web link

Profile of Fevzi Şeker at the Institute for Applied Training Science