Osman Duraliew

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Osman Duraliew ( Bulgarian Осман Дуралиев ; born January 15, 1939 in Rasgrad , † April 25, 2011 in Istanbul , Turkey ) was a Bulgarian wrestler .

Career

Osman Duraliew was a member of the Turkish minority in Bulgaria . He grew up in Razgrad and started wrestling there in 1956. After he achieved his first successes in the youth field and his great talent for wrestling was evident, he was delegated to a sports club in Sofia . There he found good training conditions and the support for a top athlete that was common in an Eastern Bloc state at the time. Therefore he made good progress and in 1962 had reached the Bulgarian top class of heavyweight wrestlers in free style. At a height of 1.82 m, he weighed around 120 kg and looked stocky, but had a lot of strength. For the time being, he was not used in the Bulgarian national wrestling team because in the free style in which Duraliev wrestled, Lyutwi Dschiber Akhmedov and Valko Kostov dominated the scene. In 1967, however, he replaced these wrestlers and represented Bulgaria at two Olympic Games and eight other international championships until 1972 . In each of these tournaments, he finished second. So he won two Olympic silver medals and was vice world champion and vice European champion each four times. The Soviet wrestler Alexander Medwed , to whom he was defeated seven times and against whom he fought once, once the German champion Wilfried Dietrich and once the Soviet citizen Schota Lomidze put him on the top podium eight times .

After the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich , Duraliew ended his career as an active wrestler and was a very successful coach in the Bulgarian Wrestling Association until 1989. When in 1988/89 the communist Bulgarian authorities exerted increasing assimilation pressure on the Turkish population, which went so far that all Turkish components of the name should be changed - for example , the multiple world weightlifting champion Naim Suleymanoglu was suddenly called Naum Shalamanov - settled he moved to Turkey and received Turkish citizenship. Until 2005 he was a coach in Turkey for various wrestling clubs.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = Freestyle, S = Heavyweight, up to 1968 from 97 kg body weight, SS = super heavyweight, from 1969 from 100 kg body weight)

  • 1967, 2nd place , EM in Istanbul , F, S, with victories over Wieslaw Bochénski, Poland , Wladimir Saunin, USSR , a draw against Giyasettin Ylmaz, Turkey and a defeat against Wilfried Dietrich , FRG ;
  • 1967, 2nd place , World Cup in New Delhi , F, S, with victories over Larry Kristoff , USA , Oliziisaihany Erdeneochir, Mongolia , a draw against Abulfazil Anvari, Iran and a defeat against Alexander Medwed , USSR;
  • 1968, 2nd place , EM in Skopje , F, S, with victories over Ștefan Stîngu , Romania , Omer Topuz , Turkey and László Nyers, Hungary and one defeat against Medwed;
  • 1968, silver medal , OS in Mexico City , F, S, with victories over Yorihide Isogai, Japan , Ylmaz, Anvari and Wilfried Dietrich and one defeat against Medwed;
  • 1969, 2nd place , EM in Sofia , F, SS, with victories over Enache Panait, Romania, Topuz and Wilfried Dietrich and one defeat against Schota Lomidze , USSR;
  • 1969, 2nd place , World Championship in Mar del Plata , F, SS, with victories over Lennart Eriksson, Sweden , Merv Holden, Canada , Anvari and Rocky Rasley, USA and one defeat against Medwed;
  • 1970, 2nd place , World Championships in Edmonton , F, SS, with victories over Edward Wojda, Poland and Gregory Woiciechowski, USA, a draw against Peter Germer , GDR and a defeat against Medwed;
  • 1971, 2nd place , World Championships in Sofia , F, SS, with victories over Peter Germer , Ștefan Stîngu, Stanislaw Makowieki, Poland and a draw against Medwed;
  • 1972, 2nd place , EM in Katowice , F, SS, with victories over Ylmaz, Ryszard Dlugosz, Poland, Istvan Marothy, Hungary, Ștefan Stîngu and one defeat against Medwed;
  • 1972, silver medal , OS in Munich , F, SS, with victories over Marothy, Peter Germer, Ylmaz and defeats against Chris Taylor , USA and Medwed

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personal data
SURNAME Duraliew, Osman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Дуралиев, Осман
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Rasgrad
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 2011
Place of death Istanbul . Turkey