- Mustafa Dağıstanlı
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Medal record Men's Freestyle Wrestling Competitor for 
TurkeyOlympic Games Gold 1956 Melbourne, Australia Bantamweight Gold 1960 Rome, Italy Featherweight World Championships Gold 1954 Tokyo, Japan Bantamweight Gold 1956 Istanbul, Turkey Featherweight Silver 1958 Budapest, Hungary Featherweight Gold 1959 Tehran, Iran Featherweight Balkan Championships Gold 1960 Burgas, Bulgaria Featherweight Olympic medal record Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling Mediterranean Games Gold 1955 Barcelona, Spain Bantamweight Mustafa Dağıstanlı (April 11, 1931, Çarşamba, Turkey), is a former Turkish sports wrestler, who won the gold medal twice in the Men's Freestyle Wrestling at the 1956 Olympics and 1960 Olympics and was three times World champion.
Born on April 11, 1931 in the village Söğütpınar in Çarşamba district of Samsun Province, he began wrestling in his age of 18. Mustafa Dağıstanlı was admitted 1958 to the national team. He is with 70 times the most capped Turkish wrestler and also Turkey's internationally most podium winning wrestler. He won World championship three times besides his two gold medal wins at the Olympics.
Following his retirement, he entered politics and served between 1973 and 1980 as deputy of his hometown Samsun from the Justice Party. Recently, Mustafa Dağıstanlı owns an overland coach business in Ankara bearing his family name.[1]
He is married with seven children and lives currently in Ankara.
Achievements
- 1954 World Wrestling Championships in Tokyo, Japan -gold (Freestyle Bantamweight)
- 1955 Mediterranean Games in Barcelona, Spain - gold (Greco-Roman Bantamweight)
- 1956 World Wrestling Championships in Istanbul, Turkey - gold (Freestyle Featherweight)
- 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia - gold (Freestyle Bantamweight)
- 1958 World Wrestling Championships in Budapest, Hungary - silver
- 1959 World Wrestling Championships in Tehran, Iran - gold (Freestyle Featherweight)
- 1960 Balkan Wrestling Championships in Burgas, Bulgaria - gold (Freestyle Featherweight)
- 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy - gold (Freestyle Featherweight)
Notes
References
- Olympics Database
- Who is who (Turkish)
- Wrestling File (Turkish)
Categories:- 1931 births
- Living people
- People from Samsun Province
- Wrestlers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Wrestlers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Turkey
- Turkish sport wrestlers
- Turkish people of Dagestani descent
- Justice Party (Turkey) politicians
- Turkish sportsperson–politicians
- Olympic medalists in wrestling
- European sport wrestler stubs
- Turkish sportspeople stubs
- Asian Olympic medalist stubs
- European Olympic medalist stubs
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