Mehmet Akif Pirim

Mehmet Akif Pirim
Medal record

Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling
Olympic Games
	1992 Barcelona, Spain	Featherweight
	1996 Atlanta, Ga, USA	Featherweight
World Championships
	1991 Varna, Bulgaria	Featherweight
Mediterranean Games
	1991 Athens, Greece	Featherweight
	1993 Aude, France	Featherweight
	1997 Bari, Italy	Featherweight
Military World Games
	1995 Rome, Italy	Featherweight

Mehmet Akif Pirim (September 17, 1968, Rize, Turkey), is a former Turkish Olympic medalist sports wrestler in the Featherweight class (62 kg), and currently a trainer. He won the gold medal at the 1992 Olympics in Men's Greco-Roman wrestling and the bronze medal at the 1996 Olympics.

Born on September 17, 1968 in the Black Sea city of Rize, he began sports wrestling 1986 in Rize Çaykur Sports Club and continued in the clubs Halkbankası, TMO and TEDAŞ Clubs.

Akif Pirim won the silver medal at the World Championships and the gold medal three times at the Mediterranean Games and also at the first Military World Games.

As he was not qualified for the Turkish national team in 1999, Akif Pirim was offered the citizenship of Azerbaijan, which he accepted.^[1] He participated at the 1999 World Championships held in Athens, Greece, for Azerbaijan, however without success.^[2]

He is currently the head coach of the Turkish national team of Greco-Roman style wrestling.^[3]

Achievements

1988 European Espoir Championships in Wałbrzych, Poland – 7th (57 kg)
1991 European Championships in Aschaffenburg, Germany – 9th (62 kg)
1991 Mediterranean Games in Athens, Greece – gold (62 kg)
1991 World Championships in Varna, Bulgaria – silver (62 kg)
1992 European Championships in Kopenhagen, Denmark – 7th (62 kg)
1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain – gold (62 kg)
1993 Mediterranean Games in Aude, Languedoc-Roussillon, France – gold (62 kg)
1995 European Championships in Besançon, France – 6th (62 kg)
1995 Military World Games in Rome, Italy – gold (62 kg)^[4]
1996 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary – 5th (62 kg)
1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. – bronze (62 kg)
1997 Mediterranean Games in Bari, Italy – gold (62 kg)

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Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman featherweight

1912 Kaarlo Koskelo (FIN) 1920 Oskari Friman (FIN) 1924 Kalle Anttila (FIN) 1928 Voldemar Väli (EST) 1932 Giovanni Gozzi (ITA) 1936 Yaşar Erkan (TUR) 1948 Mehmet Oktav (TUR) 1952 Yakiv Punkin (URS) 1956 Rauno Mäkinen (FIN) 1960 Müzahir Sille (TUR) 1964 Imre Polyák (HUN) 1968 Roman Rurua (URS) 1972 Georgi Markov (URS) 1976 Kazimierz Lipień (POL) 1980 Stelios Mygiakis (GRE) 1984 Kim Weon-kee (KOR) 1988 Kamandar Madzhidov (URS) 1992 Mehmet Akif Pirim (TUR) 1996 Włodzimierz Zawadzki (POL) 2000 Varteres Samurgashev (RUS) 2004 Jung Ji-hyun (KOR) 2008 Islambek Albiev (RUS) 2012 Omid Norouzi (IRI)

−60 kg (1912–1920) −62 kg (1924–1928) −61 kg (1932–1960) −63 kg (1964–1968) −62 kg (1972–1996) −63 kg (2000) −60 kg (2004–2012)

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