Yussein Mechmedow

Jussein Alitiew Mechmedow ( Bulgarian Юсеин Алитиев Мехмедов , Turkish transcription Husein Alitiyev Mehmedov , Turkish Huseyin Mehmet Ali's , Bulgarian transcription Хюсеин Мехмет Алиш Chjussein Mechmet Alisch * 25. January 1924 in Razgrad , Bulgaria ; † 9. March 2014 in Istanbul , Turkey ) was a Bulgarian wrestler of Turkish ethnicity. He won a silver medal in free style heavyweight at the Melbourne Olympics in 1956 .

Career

Yussein Mechmedow belongs to the Turkish minority in Bulgaria . When he first appeared on the international wrestling mat in 1955, he was already over 30 years old. The reason for this is that Jussein Mechmedow initially only worked in the Turkish national sport of oil wrestling. Only when Olympic wrestling was intensively promoted in Bulgaria at the end of the 1940s did he also deal with the Greco-Roman and free styles.

In 1955 he first appeared on the international wrestling mat and won the Greco-Roman heavyweight division at the World Youth Festival in Warsaw . Style in front of none other than the Soviet master Iwan Bogdan . In 1956 he started at the Olympic Games in Melbourne in both styles. In the Greco-Roman style he was defeated by Wilfried Dietrich from Germany and against Anatoli Parfenow from the Soviet Union and came in 8th place. In the free style he was much more successful, because he won four fights and was only defeated by the Turkish Hamit Kaplan , who became Olympic champion . But winning the silver medal was a great success for Jussein Mechmedow.

In 1957 he competed in the Free Style World Championships in Istanbul . He won three fights there, fought against Wilfried Dietrich and the Soviet champion Iwan Wychristschuk and was defeated again against Hamit Kaplan. Hamit Kaplan was world champion ahead of Wilfried Dietrich and Jussein Mechmedow.

In other international championships he was no longer at the start because he was replaced in Bulgaria by Lyutvi Dschiber Akhmedov and Radoslaw Kassabow . At international tournaments, however, he still had great success.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, F = free style, heavyweight, up to 1961 over 87 kg, from 1962 over 97 kg)

year	space	competition	style	Weight class
1955	1.	World Youth Festival in Warsaw	GR	Heavy	before Iwan Bogdan , USSR a . Leif Nordström, Sweden
1956	3.	World Cup in Istanbul	F.	Heavy	with victories over Max Widmer , Switzerland a . Natale Vecchi , Italy a . Defeats against Hamit Kaplan , Turkey a . Arsen Mekokishvili , USSR
1956	3.	World Cup in Istanbul	GR	Heavy	with victories over Lucjan Sosnowski , Poland a . Giuseppe Marcucci, Italy a . Defeats against Johannes Kotkas , USSR a. Hamit Kaplan
1956	8th.	OS OS in Melbourne	GR	Heavy	with a victory over Taisto Kangasniemi , Finland a . Defeats against Wilfried Dietrich , Germany a . Anatoly Parfenov , USSR
1956	silver	OS in Melbourne	F.	Heavy	with victories over Hossein Noori, Iran , Iwan Wychristschuk , USSR, Kenneth Richmond , United Kingdom a . Taisto Kangasniemi et al. a loss to Hamit Kaplan
1957	2.	III. Intern. Sports games in Moscow	GR	Heavy	behind Iwan Bogdan u. in front of Balo, Romania
1957	1.	III. Intern. Sports games in Moscow	F.	Heavy	before Sawkus Dscharasow , USSR a. Lyutvi Djiber Akhmedov , Bulgaria
1957	3.	World Cup in Istanbul	F.	Heavy	with victories over Shunichi Kawano, Japan , Lucjan Sosnowski, Poland a. Max Widmer , draw against Iwan Wychristschuk u. Wilfried Dietrich u. a loss to Hamit Kaplan
1959	5.	Tournament in Split	GR	Heavy	behind Wilfried Dietrich , István Kozma , Hungary , Suleyman Bastimur, Turkey a. Bertil Antonsson , Sweden
1962	2.	"Dan Kolew" tournament in Sofia	F.	Heavy	behind Lyutvi Dschiber Akhmedov a . before János Reznák , Hungary

International battles

(not completely)

• 1960 in Plovdiv , Bulgaria against FRG , S, F, draw against Wilfried Dietrich ,
• 1960 in Sofia , Bulgaria against FRG, S, F, draw against Wilfried Dietrich,
• 1963 in Sofia, Bulgaria against FRG, S, F, points winner over Roland Bock

swell

• Athletics magazine from 1955 to 1963.
• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships ; 1876,
• Website "www.bul-wrestling.org"

Web links

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