Mustafa Dağıstanlı

Mustafa Dağıstanlı (born April 11, 1931 in Söğütpınar near Samsun ) is a former Turkish wrestler . He was a two-time Olympic champion in 1956 and 1960 and three-time world champion in free style in bantam and featherweight.

Career

Mustafa Dağıstanlı started wrestling at the age of 18, after having worked in Turkish oil wrestling for many years. He developed into one of the best freestyle wrestlers in the world in the 1950s, but also the Greco-Roman. Excellent command of style. In 1952 he just missed qualifying for the Olympic Games in Helsinki . In 1953, however, he was already in the Turkish national wrestling squad, which was in Sweden for two international matches . Dağıstanlı won there against Edvin Vesterby and Göte Persson in bantamweight each on points.

His debut at an international championship was Dağıstanlı 1954 at the World Championships in Tokyo in free style in bantamweight. He immediately won the world title with three wins on the shoulder and two points ahead of Hungary's Lajos Bencze and Tauno Jaskari from Finland .

In 1956 Dağıstanlı also received Olympic honors for the first time. In Melbourne he was the superior Olympic bantamweight champion with five wins . A success that he repeated in Rome in 1960 in the featherweight division. In Rome he even got six wins, so the draw in the seventh fight against the Japanese Tamiji Sato did not prevent his triumph.

Between the Olympic Games in Rome, Dağıstanlı was world champion in free style featherweight in 1957 in Istanbul and 1959 in Tehran . In Istanbul he won all his fights, in Tehran he suffered a draw against Muhamad Ahkbar from Pakistan . In 1955 and 1958 there were no free style world championships.

1958 Dağıstanlı stayed with a Turkish wrestler selection also in the Federal Republic of Germany . He put his opponents Klaus Rost , Erwin Schuster, Johann Argstatter u. Gawlinski on the shoulders.

Without a doubt, Mustafa Dağıstanlı, who ended his active wrestling career after the Olympic Games in 1960, was the best bantam or featherweight freestyle wrestler in the world between 1954 and 1960. In those years he won all but one of the major championships or tournaments in which he participated. Only at the 1958 World Cup in Sofia he finished second in featherweight behind the Soviet athlete Nurik Muschegijan , because he tied twice in this tournament and Muschegijan only once.

After his active time as a wrestler, Mustafa Dağıstanlı worked as a politician and businessman in Samsun. In September 2009 he was inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame for his services to wrestling .

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, F = free style, GR = Greco-Roman style, Ba = bantam weight, Fe = featherweight, at that time up to 57 kg or 62 kg body weight)

• 1954, 1st place , World Cup in Tokyo , F, Ba, with victories over W. Gigijadse, Soviet Union , Mohammad Mehdi Yaghoubi , Iran , James Rose, USA , Lajos Bencze , Hungary a . Tauno Jaskari , Finland ;
• 1955, 1st place , Mediterranean Games in Barcelona , GR, Ba, in front of spas, Syria a . Abdelizif, Egypt ;
• 1956, 1st place , World Cup in Istanbul , F, Ba, with victories over Bayram Djabbar, Iran, Tadeusz Trojanowski , Poland , Alexander Maissuradze, USSR a. Minuro Iuzuka , Japan ;
• 1956, gold medal , OS in Melbourne , F, Ba, with victories over Minoru Iuzuka, Lee Allen , USA, Fred Kämmerer , Germany , Mohammad Mehdi Yaghoubi u. Mikhail Shakhov , USSR;
• 1957, 1st place , World Cup in Istanbul , F, Fe, with victories over Franz Swoboda , FRG , Antonio Fasciano, Italy , Géza Hoffmann , Hungary, Motokazu Motohashi, Japan, Norik Muschegijan , USSR a. Hossein Ebrahimian, Iran;
• 1958, 2nd place , World Cup in Sofia , F, Fe, with victories over Zurawsky, Poland a. Stancho Kolew Iwanow , Bulgaria a . Draw against Mohammad Mehdi Yaghoubi u. Nurik Muschegijan;
• 1959, 1st place , tournament in Savona , F, Fe, in front of Lettere, Italy, Harro Häßler, FRG a. Contre, France ;
• 1959, 1st place , World Cup in Tehran , F, Fe, with victories over Géza Hoffmann, Ahmad Sayed Kasim, Iraq , Erkki Penttilä , Finland and the like. Stancho Kolew Iwanow a. a tie against Muhamad Akhbar, Pakistan ;
• 1960, 1st place , Balkan Championship in Burgas , F, Fe;
• 1960, gold medal , OS in Rome , F, Fe, with victories over Erkki Penttilä, József Kellermann , Hungary, Johann Marte , Austria , Joseph Mewis , Belgium , Muhamad Akhbar u. Stancho Kolew Iwanow a. a tie against Tamiji Sato , Japan

Most important international battles

• 1953, Sweden against Turkey , F, Ba, points winner over Edvin Vesterby ,
• 1953, Sweden against Turkey, F, Ba, point winner over Göte Persson,
• 1955, Switzerland against Turkey, F, Fe, shoulder winner over Hans Widmer,
• 1955, Sweden against Turkey, F, Fe, shoulder winner over Lasse Börjesson,
• 1956, Hungary against Turkey, GR, Fe, shoulder defeat against Imre Polyák ,
• 1956, Hungary against Turkey, F, Fe, point victory over Géza Hoffmann ,
• 1958, Turkey against Finland , F, Fe, points victory over Erkki Penttilä

swell

• 1) Div. Issues of the specialist magazine "Athletik" from 1952 to 1960,
• 2) Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of the FILA, 1976
• 3) International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FILA Hall of Fame members inducted in Denmark ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on July 22, 2010 (English) 

Web links

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