Kenan Simsek

Kenan Şimşek (born June 1, 1968 ) is a former Turkish wrestler .

Career

Kenan Şimşek began as a teenager with the Turkish national sport of oil wrestling . From the age of 17 he also trained in Olympic wrestling. The club he joined was Büyükşehir Belediyesi Ankara . He wrestled exclusively in the free style in light heavy and heavyweight. His coach, who systematically led him to the top Turkish class, was Muhammed Oruç.

Kenan made his debut at the international senior championships in 1990 at the European championships in Poznan with an excellent 3rd place in the light heavyweight division. He did not do quite as well at the World Championships in Tokyo that year, but came in a respectable 6th place.

In 1991 he won the Mediterranean Games in the light heavyweight division, was not at the start of the European Championships and finished sixth again at the World Championships in Varna .

1992 turned out to be the most successful of his career. He finished third at the European Championships in Kaposvár by beating Kalojan Baew , Bulgaria . At the Olympic Games in Barcelona he fought his way to the final in the light heavyweight division, but had no chance there against the multiple world champion Macharbek Chadarzew from Russia , although he was only defeated with 0: 1 points. The silver medal was the reward for his good fights.

Also at the European Championships in Istanbul in 1993 there was a medal for Kenan with the 3rd place, whereby his 0: 1 point defeat against Sasa Turmanidze from Georgia in the pool final was very controversial. Most wrestling professionals saw Kenan as the winner.

The bronze medal from the European Championships in 1993 was the last medal he won at an international championship. In 1998 he ended his wrestling career, but was still active as an oil wrestler for many years and was Turkish heavyweight champion several times.

Kenan Şimşek was also well known in Germany because he fought for SV Siegfried Hallbergmoos in the Bundesliga for several years .

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = freestyle, Hs = light heavyweight, then up to 90 kg or 97 kg body weight, S = heavyweight, then up to 100 kg body weight)

• 1988, 11th place , Junior World Championships in Schifferstadt , F, up to 88 kg body weight, winner: Wassil Todorow, Bulgaria ahead of Matthew Ruppel, USA and Alan Kozojew, Soviet Union ;
• 1990, 3rd place , EM in Posen , F, Hs, behind Wagab Kasibekow , Soviet Union and Gábor Tóth , Hungary and in front of Wesselin Sabew, Bulgaria, Ludwig Schneider , FRG and Iraklios Deskoulidis , Greece ;
• 1990, 6th place , World Cup in Toledo / USA, F, Hs, behind Macharbek Chadarzew , Soviet Union, Christopher Campbell , USA, Mohebbi, Iran, Schneider and Rumen Alabakow, Bulgaria;
• 1991, 1st place , Mediterranean Games in Athens , F, Hs, in front of Deskoulidis and Renato Lombardo , Italy ;
• 1991, 6th place , World Championships in Varna , F, Hs, behind Chadarzew, Deskoulidis, Roberto Limontas , Cuba , Alabakow and Campbell;
• 1992, 3rd place , EM in Kaposvár , F, Hs, behind Chadarzew and Tóth and in front of Baew, Schneider and Josef Palatínus, Czechoslovakia ;
• 1992, silver medal , OS in Barcelona , F, Hs, behind Chadarzew and in front of Campbell, Puntsep Süchbar, Mongolia , Ayub Banynosvar, Iran and Limontas;
• 1992, 3rd place , “Yasar Dogu” memorial in Istanbul , F, Hs, behind Jambulat Tedejew , Ukraine and Ahmet Doğu , Turkey ;
• 1993, 3rd place , EM in Istanbul, F, Hs, behind Tedejew, Sasa Turmanidse , Georgia and in front of Józef Niec, Poland, Schamil Abdurachmanau , Belarus and Ingo Manz , Germany;
• 1993, 8th place , World Championships in Toronto , F, Hs, winner: Abbas Jadidi , Iran ahead of Melvin Douglas , USA and Eldari Luka Kurtanidze , Georgia;
• 1994, 1st place , “Yasar Dogu” memorial in Istanbul, F, S, in front of Marek Garmulewicz , Poland and Senol Karagöz, Turkey;
• 1994, 11th place , World Championship in Istanbul, F, Hs, winner: Rasoul Khadem , Iran ahead of Chadarzew and Douglas;
• 1995, 5th place , EM in Freiburg im Üechtland / Switzerland , F, S, behind David Musuľbes , Russia , Milan Mazáč , Slovakia , Arawat Sabejew , Germany and Arvi Aavik , Estonia and ahead of Jószef Glázer, Hungary;
• 1995, 14th place , World Championships in Atlanta , F, S, winner: Kurt Angle , USA ahead of Arawat Sabejew and Abbas Jadidi;
• 1995, 2nd place , “Yasar Dogu” Memorial, F, S, behind Sjarhej Kawaleuski , Belarus and in front of Ahmet Doğu;
• 1998, 2nd place , "Yasar-Dogu" Memorial, F, Hs, behind Sagid Murtasalijew , Russia and in front of Garmulewicz

swell

• International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig
• Trade journal "Der Ringer", numbers: 05/90, 10/90, 10/91, 05/92, 09/92, 05/93, 09/93, 09/94, 06/95, 09/95

Web links

• Kenan Şimşek in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )