Mustafa Dağıstanlı

Mustafa Dağıstanlı
Medal record

Men's Freestyle Wrestling
Representing Turkey
Olympic Games
	1956 Melbourne	Bantamweight
	1960 Rome	Featherweight
World Championships
	1954 Tokyo, Japan	Bantamweight
	1957 Istanbul, Turkey	Featherweight
	1959 Tehran, Iran	Featherweight
Balkan Championships
	1960 Burgas, Bulgaria	Featherweight

Olympic medal record
Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling
Mediterranean Games
	1955 Barcelona, Spain	Bantamweight

Mustafa Dağıstanlı (11 April 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 11 April 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

↑ City News (Turkish)

References

Olympic Champions in freestyle bantamweight

1904: Isidor Niflot (USA) 1908: George Mehnert (USA) 1924: Kustaa Pihlajamäki (FIN) 1928: Kaarlo Mäkinen (FIN) 1932: Robert Pearce (USA) 1936: Ödön Zombori (HUN) 1948: Nasuh Akar (TUR) 1952: Shohachi Ishii (JPN) 1956: Mustafa Dağıstanlı (TUR) 1960: Terrence McCann (USA) 1964-1968: Yojiro Uetake (JPN) 1972: Hideaki Yanagida (JPN) 1976: Vladimir Yumin (URS) 1980: Sergei Beloglazov (URS) 1984: Hideaki Tomiyama (JPN) 1988: Sergei Beloglazov (URS) 1992: Alejandro Puerto (CUB) 1996: Kendall Cross (USA) 2000: Alireza Dabir (IRI) 2004: Mavlet Batirov (RUS) 2008: Henry Cejudo (USA) 2012: Dzhamal Otarsultanov (RUS) 2016: Vladimer Khinchegashvili (GEO)

−56.70 kg (1904) −54 kg (1908) −56 kg (1924–1936) −57 kg (1948–1996) −58 kg (2000) −55 kg (2004–2012) −57 kg (2016–present)

Olympic Champions in freestyle featherweight

1904 Benjamin Bradshaw (USA) 1908 George Dole (USA) 1920 Charles Ackerly (USA) 1924 Robin Reed (USA) 1928 Allie Morrison (USA) 1932 Hermanni Pihlajamäki (FIN) 1936 Kustaa Pihlajamäki (FIN) 1948 Gazanfer Bilge (TUR) 1952 Bayram Şit (TUR) 1956 Shozo Sasahara (JPN) 1960 Mustafa Dağıstanlı (TUR) 1964 Osamu Watanabe (JPN) 1968 Masaaki Kaneko (JPN) 1972 Zagalav Abdulbekov (URS) 1976 Yang Jung-mo (KOR) 1980 Magomedgasan Abushev (URS) 1984 Randall Lewis (USA) 1988 John Smith (USA) 1992 John Smith (USA) 1996 Tom Brands (USA) 2000 Murad Umakhanov (RUS) 2004 Yandro Quintana (CUB) 2008 Mavlet Batirov (RUS) 2012 Toghrul Asgarov (AZE)

−61.33 kg (1904) −60.3 kg (1908) −61 kg (1920–1936) −63 kg (1948–1968) −62 kg (1972–1996) −63 kg (2000) −60 kg (2004–2012)

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