Nasuh Akar

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Nasuh Akar (born May 10, 1925 in Boğazlıyan , Yozgat , † May 18, 1984 in Seydişehir ) was a Turkish wrestler . He was Olympic champion at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London in freestyle wrestling .

Career

Nasuh Akar is from Yozgat Province . He started wrestling as a teenager and developed into an excellent freestyle wrestler. In 1946 he took part in the first international championship in wrestling after the Second World War, the European Free Style Championship in Stockholm . The bantamweight division , in which Nasuh started, was quite turbulent there, as four wrestlers defeated each other. Nasuh Akar achieve u. a. Victories over the Finnish champion Erkki Johansson and the Hungarian champion Lajos Bencze , while he was defeated on points against the two-time vice European champion of 1938 and 1939 Kurt Pettersén from Sweden . In the final round, Bencze won ahead of Akar, Johansson and Pettersén.

In 1948 Nasuh achieved the greatest success of his wrestling career. He became Olympic bantamweight champion in London. This victory was won very confidently, because Nasuh scored four shoulder wins and two points wins.

Nasuh also won the European Championship in 1949, which took place in Istanbul . He won the four fights that he had to contest without any problems. In the final battle, he also succeeded in taking revenge for the defeat of 1946 with a point victory over Kurt Pettersén.

In 1950 Nasuh was part of a Turkish wrestling relay that wrestled against the Federal Republic of Germany in Istanbul and won 8-0 over the Germans, who were allowed to play on the international wrestling mat for the first time after a long period of abstinence and were overwhelmed. Nasuh Akar celebrated a shoulder victory over Manfred Spatz from Feudenheim . Finally, in 1951, Nasuh also won the bantamweight championship in Helsinki . Three victories were enough for him.

After the 1951 World Cup, there were differences in Turkey between some wrestlers from the national team and the Turkish Wrestling Association, with allegedly false expense reports. In addition to Ali Yücel and Nurettin Zafer , Nasuh Akar was also affected. The Turkish Wrestling Association declared these athletes to be professionals without further ado, which meant that they could not take part in the 1952 Olympic Games.

Nasuh Akar then ended his career as an active wrestler, but remained the wrestling as a coach.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = freestyle, Ba = bantam weight, back then up to 57 kg body weight)

swell

  • Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships , 1976,
  • Athletics magazine from 1949 to 1951
  • Website of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

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