Hasan Güngör

Hasan Güngör medal table
Wrestling
Turkey
Olympic Summer Games
gold	1960 Rome	79 kg
Olympic Summer Games
silver	1964 Tokyo	87 kg

Hasan Güngör (born July 5, 1934 in Acıpayam , Denizli ; † October 13, 2011 ) was a Turkish wrestler . He was an Olympic champion in 1960 and a free style middleweight silver medalist in 1964.

Career

Hasan Güngör grew up in Denizli and started wrestling there. He developed into a freestyle wrestler. His international career began with a third place at the 1957 World Championships in Istanbul in the middleweight division. He defeated the 1956 Olympic champion Nikola Stantschew from Bulgaria . In 1958 Güngör won the World Cup in Sofia , which was held instead of a world championship, in front of the entire world elite at the time.

In 1959 he stayed with the Turkish national team on a competition trip in the Federal Republic of Germany and defeated Horst Hess , Johann Sterr and Georg Utz, the then top German middleweight division.

At the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome , he was Olympic middleweight champion. Because of the peculiarity of the rules at that time, he did not have to wrestle either against the silver medalist Giorgi Schirtladse from the Soviet Union or against the bronze medalist Hans Antonsson from Sweden .

From 1961 Güngör started in the light heavyweight division. He made a draw at the World Championships this year in Yokohama against the Olympic champion and multiple world champion Gholamreza Takhti from Iran , but was defeated by the Soviet representative Boris Gurevich and came in 3rd place.

At the 1962 World Cup in Toledo , Hasan was runner-up. He wrestled against this year's world champion Mansour Mehdizadeh from Iran and defeated last year's world champion Boris Gurevich on points.

At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 , Güngür u. a. against the Soviet representative Schota Lomidze on points and wrestled against Prodan Gardschew from Bulgaria , the eventual Olympic champion, in a draw. A defeat against Mansour Mehdizadeh cost him his second Olympic victory.

In 1966, Hasan finally won the middleweight championship in Karlsruhe , which was reintroduced after a long break, in front of the Czech Josef Urban and the Soviet wrestler Andrei Zchowrebow and was vice world champion behind Prodan Gardschew at the world championship in Toledo.

After two fourth places at the European Championship in 1967 in Istanbul and the World Championship in New Delhi , he ended his career and worked as a coach in Turkey for years.

The results of the international championships and some other tournaments in which Hasan Güngör participated can be found in the following section.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = Freestyle, We = Welterweight, then up to 73 kg body weight, Wed = middleweight, up to 1964 up to 79 kg, from 1965 up to 87 kg body weight, Hs = light heavyweight, up to 1964 up to 87 kg, from 1965 up to 97 kg body weight)

• 1956, 1st place , “Opatija” cup tournament in Pula , F, We, ahead of Hans Sommer, FRG and Kujaj, Yugoslavia ;
• 1957, 3rd place , World Cup in Istanbul , F, Wed, with victories over Johann Sterr , FRG, Kurt Soukop, Austria and Nikola Stantschew , Bulgaria and defeats against Nabi Sorouri , Iran and Giorgi Schirtladse , Soviet Union ;
• 1958, 1st place , World Cup in Sofia , F, Wed, ahead of Giorgi Schirtladse, Lothar Lippa , GDR , Prodan Gardschew , Bulgaria and Nabi Sorouri;
• 1960, gold medal , OS in Rome , F, Wed, with victories over Géza Hollósi , Hungary , Julia Graffigna, Argentina , Edward DeWitt, South Africa and Prodan Gardschew and a draw against Mansour Mehdizadeh , Iran;
• 1961, 3rd place , World Championships in Yokohama , F, Hs, with victories over Sajan Singh, India , Daniel Brand , USA and Shunichi Kawano, Japan , a draw against Gholamreza Takhti , Iran and a defeat against Boris Gurewitsch , USSR;
• 1962, 2nd place , World Championship in Toledo / USA , F, Hs, with victories over William Farrell , USA, Boris Gurewitsch and Felix Neuhaus, Switzerland and a draw against Shunichi Kawano and Mansour Mehdizadeh;
• 1963, 1st place , Mediterranean Games in Naples, F, Hs, ahead of El Eidaross, Egypt and Carini, Italy;
• 1964, silver medal , OS in Tokyo , F, Hs, with victories over Alfonso Rafael Gonzalez, Panama , Kang Doo-Man, PR Korea and Schota Lomidze , USSR, one draw against Prodan Gardschew and one defeat against Mansour Mehdizadeh;
• 1966, 1st place , EM in Karlsruhe , F, Wed, with victories over Dimitrios Salvadis, Greece , Franz Pötsch, Austria, Umberto Marcheggiani, Italy , Russi Petrow , Bulgaria, Andrei Zchowrebow , USSR and Josef Urban , Czechoslovakia ;
• 1966, 2nd place , World Championships in Toledo / USA, F, Wed, with victories over Dean Lahr, USA and Franz Pötsch and a draw against Andrei Zchowrebow, Josef Urban and Prodan Gardschew;
• 1967, 4th place , EM in Istanbul , F, Wed, with victories over Arslan Rizvani, Yugoslavia and Zygmunt Patoleta, Poland and a draw against Francisc Balla , Romania and Boris Gurewitsch;
• 1967, 4th place , World Cup in New Delhi , F, Wed, with victories over Etienne Martinetti, Switzerland and Ernst Knoll , FRG and a draw against Shunichi Kawano and Prodan Gardschew

swell

• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976
• International Wrestling database of the University of Leipzig
• various issues of the specialist magazine "Athletik" from 1956 to 1967

Web links

• Hasan Güngör's profile at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Hasan Güngör in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Portrait of Hasan Güngör (Turkish)