Hakkı Başar

Hakkı Başar (born September 24, 1969 in Sakarya ) is a former Turkish wrestler .

Career

Başar grew up in Istanbul and did not start wrestling until the age of 17 in 1986. He joined the Istanbul wrestling club "Ithisas Spor". At that time he was trained by Ata Karatas. Hakkı wrestled exclusively in the Greco-Roman style. Later he moved to the club "Böyökzehir Belediye" Istanbul, where he was looked after by the coach Ibrahim Yildirim. At the age of 18 he began his international career with a victory at the Balkan Games in Romania in 1988 . Back then he was wrestling in the middleweight division. In 1989 he finished 7th at the Junior World Championships in Budapest . He then competed in several international championships in 1990 and 1991, but was not yet able to place in the front field. The Turkish Wrestling Association remained loyal to him and also nominated Hakkı for the 1992 Olympic Games because it was recognized that there was a lot of potential in him.

In fact, he made his breakthrough at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona . He delivered excellent fights in the light heavyweight division, defeated the Russian Gogi Koguaschwili and was only defeated by the German Maik Bullmann in the fight for the gold medal . The silver medal was the reward for his good fights.

He also defeated Koguashvili at the European Championships in Istanbul in 1993, but this time failed to the Swedish surprise man Jörgen Olsson , but still won the bronze medal in the light heavyweight division.

In 1994 he suffered a setback in terms of performance when he only finished 13th at the European Championships in Athens and only 15th at the World Championships in Tampere . At the European Championships in Besançon in 1995 , he started in the heavyweight division, but could not prevail there and only came in seventh.

At the 1995 World Cup , he achieved his first major victory. He became world light heavyweight champion. His main rival Gogi Koguaschwili was eliminated before the final, in which Hakkı Petru Sudureac from Romania safely beat.

In 1996 Hakkı was less successful again. After a 12th place at the European Championships, he still reached 5th place at the Olympic Games in Atlanta in the light heavyweight division.

The year 1997 brought a new weight classification by the international wrestling association FILA . Light heavyweight and heavyweight, previously up to 90 kg and 100 kg body weight, were merged into a new weight class light heavy weight, which went up to 97 kg body weight. The former light heavyweights and the former heavyweights met in this weight class. The competition in this new weight class was therefore very fierce. Nevertheless, Hakkı achieved a great success in the spring of 1997 when he became European champion in Kouvola / Finland , where some of the previous stars of the old weight classes were missing. He defeated Anatoly Fedorenko from Belarus in the final . In autumn it was only enough for 10th place at the World Championships in Breslau , where all cracks from the former weight classes competed for the first time .

After all, he won another bronze medal at the 1998 European Championships in Minsk . In the following years he achieved a few good placements at international championships, but he did not win any more medals. The end of his career was disappointing for him, namely his third participation in the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 . He only finished 16th there.

After the end of his active career, Başar completed his training as a trainer and is now a trainer for the Greco-Roman style in the Turkish Wrestling Association. He also runs a sports and fitness facility.

The results of the international championships and some other tournaments that Başar participated in can be found in the next section.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, Wed = middle weight up to 82 kg body weight, Hs = light heavy weight, up to 1996 up to 90 kg body weight, then up to 97 kg body weight, S = heavy weight, up to 100 kg body weight, GR = Greco-Roman style)

• 1988, 1st place , Balkan Games in Romania, GR, Wed;
• 1989, 7th place , Junior World Championships (Espoirs) in Budapest, GR, Wed, behind Oleg Balamutow, Soviet Union , Pavel Frinta , Czechoslovakia , Jordan Spassow, Bulgaria , Tino Hempel, GDR , Gábor Garamvölgyi, Hungary and Salvatore Campanella, Italy ;
• 1990, 9th place , EM in Posen , GR, Wed, winners: Thomas Zander , Germany ahead of Sergei Nassewitsch , Soviet Union, Todor Angelow, Bulgaria and Piotr Stępień , Poland ;
• 1990, 9th place , World Cup in Rome , GR, Wed, winner: Péter Farkas , Hungary , ahead of Michail Mamiaschwili , Soviet Union, Goran Kasum, Yugoslavia and Timo Niemi, Finland ;
• 1991, 6th place , Mediterranean Games in Athens, GR, Hs, winners: Moustapha Hussein, Egypt , Pajo Isosevic, Yugoslavia and Iordanos Konstantinidis, Greece ;
• 1991, 13th place , World Championship in Warna , GR, Hs, winner: Maik Bullmann , Germany ahead of Reynaldo Pena , Cuba, Harri Koskela , Finland and Isosevic;
• 1992, 8th place , EM in Copenhagen , GR, Hs, winner: Bullmann in front of Iwajlo Jordanow, Bulgaria, Tibor Komáromi , Hungary and Konstantinidis;
• 1992, silver medal , OS in Barcelona, ​​GR, Hs, behind Bullmann and in front of Gogi Koguaschwili , CIS, Mikael Ljungberg , Sweden, Hassan Babak, Iran and Mike Foy , USA ;
• 1993, 3rd place , EM in Istanbul, GR, Hs, behind Jörgen Olsson , Sweden and Ali Mollow, Bulgaria and in front of Sjarhej Lishtwan , Belarus and Isosovic;
• 1994, 13th place , EM in Athens, GR, Hs, winner: Vyacheslav Oleinik , Ukraine ahead of Sjarhej Kiriltschuk, Belarus, Stig Kleven , Norway and Konstantinidis;
• 1994, 15th place , World Championship in Tampere, GR, Hs, winner: Koguaschwili ahead of Vyacheslav Oleinik, Bullmann and Marek Kraszewski, Poland;
• 1995, 7th place , EM in Besançon, GR, S, behind Ljungberg, Georgi Saldadze , Ukraine , Lishtwan, Teimuras Edishashvili, Russia, Juram Jedechauri, Georgia and Csaba Rajos, Hungary;
• 1995, 1st place , World Championships in Prague , GR, Hs, ahead of Petru Sudureac , Romania, Koguaschwili, Pena, Konstantinidis and Koskela;
• 1996, 12th place , EM in Budapest, GR, Hs, winner: Koguaschwili ahead of Bullmann and Vyacheslav Oleinik;
• 1996, 5th place , OS in Atlanta , GR, Hs, behind Olejnik, Jacek Fafiński , Poland, Bullmann and Aljaksandr Sidarenka , Belarus;
• 1997, 1st place , Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest, GR, Hs, ahead of Mollow, Fedorenko and Marek Švec , Czech Republic;
• 1997, 1st place , Mediterranean Games in Bari , GR, Hs, ahead of Giuseppe Giunta, Italy and Konstantinos Thanis, Greece;
• 1997, 1st place , EM in Kouvola / Finland, GR, Hs, ahead of Fedorenko, Kostas Thanos, Petru Sudureac and Mollow;
• 1997, 10th place , World Championships in Breslau , GR, Hs, winner: Koguaschwili ahead of Fedorenko, Andrzej Wroński , Poland, Bullmann, Ljungberg and Olejnik;
• 1997, 2nd place , World Cup in Tehran , GR, Hs, behind Serhij Matwijenko, Ukraine and in front of Vyacheslav Belmas, Russia;
• 1998, 3rd place , EM in Minsk , GR, Hs, behind Lishtwan and Ljungberg and in front of Edischeraschwili, Mindaugas Ezerskis, Latvia and Fafinski;
• 1998, 6th place , WM in Gävle / Sweden, GR, Hs, winner: Koguaschwili ahead of Marek Švec, Dawid Saldadze, Ukraine, Petru Sudureac and Mollow;
• 1999, 7th place , EM in Sofia , GR, Hs, behind Ljungberg, Mollow, Petru Sudureac, Saldadze, Gennadi Chaidse, Georgia and Béla Káló, Hungary;
• 1999, 4th place , World Championships in Athens, GR, Hs, behind Koguaschwili, Wroński and Ljungberg and in front of Chaidse and Urs Bürgler , Switzerland ;
• 2000, 16th place , OS in Sydney , GR, Hs, winner: Ljungberg ahead of Saldadse, Garret Lowney , USA and Thanos

swell

• Div. Issues of the specialist magazine "Der Ringer" from 1988 to 2000,
• International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig

Web links

• Hakkı Başar's profile at the Institute of Applied Exercise Science
• Hakkı Başar in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Short biography of Hakkı Başar with picture (Turkish)