Kâzım Ayvaz

Kâzım Ayvaz (born March 10, 1938 in Rize ; † January 19, 2020 ) was a Turkish wrestler .

Career

Kazım Ayvaz began in 1953 as a 15-year-old youth with the rings . His first successes in the youth and junior sector soon came. He wrestled exclusively in the Greco-Roman style , which is a rarity for Turkish wrestlers, who mostly prefer the free style . His club was "Istanbul Güres Ihtisas Kulübü" in Fatih , Istanbul . In 1957 he was first Turkish welterweight champion and was then used in international championships. When he first took part in one of these he became world champion in Budapest in 1958, when he was 20 years old . His toughest rival in his own country was Mithat Bayrak , the double Olympic champion in 1956 and 1960 in the welterweight division. Since he was inferior to Bayrak in welterweight in the elimination for the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 , he had to start in Rome in the middleweight class, had to accept a certain physical disadvantage and only finished 4th. Four years later he made up for the Olympic gold medal in Tokyo . This time he started in the lightweight, after 1962 the world wrestling federation FILA had made a new weight classification. He unexpectedly became Olympic champion after he had lost in 1963 at the World Championships to the outsiders Moissidis, Greece and Skauen, Norway. Kazım Ayvaz remained active until 1969, but could not repeat his great successes from the early 1960s.

After the end of his active wrestling career, he was part of the coaching staff of the Turkish national wrestling team for many years. 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, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Le = lightweight, W = welterweight, Mi = middleweight, back then up to 70 kg, 73 kg and 78 kg body weight)

• 1957, 3rd place , Adria-Pokal in Opatija , GR, We, behind Stevan Horvat , Yugoslavia and Bertil Nyström, Sweden ;
• 1958, 1st place , World Championship in Budapest , GR, We, with victories over Nyström, Mitu Petkow, Bulgaria , Grigori Gamarnik , USSR and Jiři Mekhed, CSSR , a draw against Valeriu Bularca , Romania and despite a defeat against Olavi Niemi, Finland ;
• 1960, 4th place , Olympic Games, GR, Wed, with victories over Hazrati-Khoddam Mansoor, Iran, Raymond Schummer, Luxembourg, Jiři Kormanik, CSSR, Marciano Magnani, Italy, a draw against Boleslaw Dubicki, Poland and defeats against Dimitar Dobrew , Bulgaria and Ion Ţăranu , Romania;
• 1962, 1st place, World Championship in Toledo / USA , GR, Le, with victories over Mahmoud Ibrahim, Egypt , Wladimir Rosin , USSR, Kjeld Madsen, Denmark and Guro Gurow, Bulgaria and a draw against Hossein Ebrahimian, Iran ;
• 1963, 17th place , World Championship in Helsingborg , GR, Le, after defeats against Anastasios Moissidis, Greece and Roger Skauen, Norway ;
• 1964, gold medal , OS in Tokyo , GR, Le, with victories over Mahmoud Ibrahim, Ivan Ivanov, Bulgaria, Dawid Gwandseladze , USSR and a draw against Bularca;
• 1966, 4th place , EM in Essen , GR, Le, with victories over Boris Butrakow, Bulgaria, Lukas Schütz, Switzerland and Branislav Martinović , Yugoslavia and a draw against Genrich Markow, USSR and Eero Tapio , Finland;
• 1966, 6th place , World Championships in Toledo / USA, GR, Le, with victory over Antal Steer , Hungary , draw against Muneji Munemura, Japan and Eero Tapio and one defeat against Matti Poikala, Sweden;
• 1968, 24th place , OS in Mexico City , GR, Le, after a draw with Klaus Rost , FRG and Ion Enache , Romania retired due to injury

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1]
2. ↑ Tricia Saunders inducted into FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame in Istanbul, Turkey , accessed on January 18, 2012 (English)

Web links

• Profile of Kâzım Ayvaz at the Institute for Applied Training Science