Mustafa Dağıstanlı
![]() Dağıstanlı at the 1956 Olympics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | 11 April 1931 (1931-04-11) Söğütpınar, Samsun Province, Turkey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 18 September 2022 (aged 91) Antalya, Turkey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 62 kg (137 lb; 9.8 st) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Freestyle Greco-Roman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mustafa Dağıstanlı (11 April 1931 – 18 September 2022)[1] was a Turkish wrestler.[2] He had his best achievements in freestyle wrestling, winning gold medals at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics and 1954, 1957, and 1959 world championships. In Greco-Roman wrestling he won a gold medal at the 1955 Mediterranean Games. He is credited with 389 wins and 4 draws in 393 matches.[3]
Wrestling career
Mustafa Dağıstanlı took up wrestling at the age of 18, having been involved in Turkish oil wrestling for many years before that. He developed into one of the best freestyle wrestlers in the world in the 1950s, but also excelled in the Greco-Roman style. In 1952, he narrowly missed qualifying for the Olympic Games in Helsinki. In 1953, however, he was already a member of the Turkish national wrestling team, which was in Sweden for two international matches. Dağıstanlı won on points against Edvin Vesterby and Göte Persson in the bantamweight division.[4]
Dağıstanlı made his debut at an international championship in 1954 at the world championship in Tokyo in the bantamweight free style. He won the world title straight away with three shoulder victories and two points victories ahead of the Hungarian Lajos Bencze and Tauno Jaskari from Finland.
In 1956, Dağıstanlı also achieved Olympic honours for the first time. In Melbourne, he became the superior Olympic bantamweight champion with five victories. He repeated this success in Rome in 1960 in the featherweight category. In Rome he even managed six victories, so that the draw in the seventh fight against the Japanese Tamiji Sato did not prevent his triumph.[5]
Between the Olympic Games in Rome, Dağıstanlı had become the free style featherweight world champion in Istanbul in 1957 and in Tehran in 1959. In Istanbul he won all his fights, in Tehran he had to accept a draw against Muhamad Ahkbar from Pakistan. There were no world championships in the free style in 1955 and 1958. In 1958, Dağıstanlı also visited the Federal Republic of Germany with a Turkish wrestling team. He put his opponents Klaus Rost, Erwin Schuster, Johann Argstatter and Gawlinski on his shoulders in four friendly bouts.[6]
Mustafa Dağıstanlı, who ended his active wrestling career after the 1960 Olympic Games, was one of the best bantamweight and featherweight freestyle wrestlers in the world between 1954 and 1960. He won all but one of the major championships and tournaments in which he competed. Only at the 1958 World Cup in Sofia did he only finish second in the featherweight division behind the Soviet athlete Nurik Muschegijan, because he wrestled to a draw twice in that tournament and Muschegijan only once.
After his active time as a wrestler, Mustafa Dağıstanlı worked as a coach and took part in the Turkish Wrestling Federation. Following his retirement, he entered politics and served between 1973 and 1980 as deputy of his hometown, Samsun, for the Justice Party. Later, he owned an overland coach business in Ankara bearing his surname and the Olympic rings as a logo.[7][8]
He was inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame in September 2009 for his services to wrestling. He died in September 2022 at the age of 91. On 20 September, after the funeral prayer at Ankara Kocatepe Mosque, he was buried in Karşıyaka Cemetery.[9][10]
References
- ^ Eski Şampiyonlarımızdan Mustafa Dağıstanlı Vefat Etti (in Turkish)
- ^ "International Wrestling Database".
- ^ Athletes. Mustafa Dağıstanlı sports-reference.com
- ^ "Mustafa Dağıstanlı kimdir? Mustafa Dağıstanlı kaç yaşında, neden öldü hastalığı neydi?".
- ^ Mustafa Dağıstanlı Aydınlık [dead link]
- ^ "Mustafa Dağıstanlı Kimdir?".
- ^ City News Archived 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine (in Turkish)
- ^ Dağıstanlı Turism website (in Turkish) Accessed on 8 April 2022
- ^ "Olimpiyat şampiyonu eski milli güreşçi Mustafa Dağıstanlı vefat etti". 19 September 2022.
- ^ "Mustafa Dağıstanlı son yolculuğuna uğurlandı".
External links
- Mustafa Dağıstanlı at the International Wrestling Database
- Mustafa Dağıstanlı at Olympedia
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