Hamit Kaplan

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Hamit Kaplan (born September 20, 1934 in Hamamözü , Amasya , † January 5, 1976 in Çorum ) was a Turkish wrestler .

Career

Hamit Kaplan came from the Amasya Province in Anatolia . He began as a teenager with the Turkish national sport of oil wrestling , but soon also dealt with Olympic wrestling . As a junior he was Turkish heavyweight champion. He wrestled in both styles, Greco-Roman and freestyle. In 1954 he was accepted into the Turkish national wrestling team. In the coaches Nuri Boytorun and Celal Atik he got experts in his field, which brought him further to the top of the world. At the age of 22 he represented Turkey for the first time at world championships and achieved an excellent 3rd place in the Greco-Roman style in Karlsruhe . By the end of his career he had won eleven medals at the Olympic Games, World and European Championships. His greatest success was the 1956 Olympic victory in free style in the heavyweight class. Hamit Kaplan weighed only about 100 kg with a height of 1.90 m. For this reason he fought after 1961, when a weight classification was made, even in light heavyweight (up to 97 kg body weight). He was a very bulky wrestler who preferred the defensive style. This was also shown when a "tie" was temporarily introduced in 1957. No other top wrestler fought as often as “a draw” as Hamit Kaplan. He wrestled eight times at international championships against the German world class wrestler Wilfried Dietrich , won once, lost twice and wrestled five times against Dietrich "draws". Nevertheless, he was one of the most successful heavyweight wrestlers, although in the 1960s Alexander Iwanizki , Alexander Medwed and István Kozma had grown up opponents whom he could no longer defeat.

After the Olympic Games in 1964, he therefore resigned. He was a businessman, but died at the age of only 42. In September 2011, he was inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame for his services to wrestling .

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, F = freestyle, S = heavyweight, up to 1961 over 87 kg body weight, after 1961 over 97 kg body weight, Hs = light heavyweight, from 1962 up to 97 kg body weight)

swell

  • 1) International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig
  • 2) Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of the FILA, 1976
  • 3) Various issues of the specialist magazine “Athletik” from 1955 to 1964

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tricia Saunders inducted into FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame in Istanbul, Turkey. In: teamusa.org. Retrieved January 18, 2012 .

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personal data
SURNAME Chaplain, Hamit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamamözü , Amasya
DATE OF DEATH 5th January 1976
Place of death Çorum