Ali Rıza Alan
Ali Riza Alan ( born March 3, 1947) is a former Turkish wrestler and world champion in 1970 in the free style flyweight.
Career
Ali Riza Alan began as a teenager in Tokat with the rings. It developed at the coaches Hidir Koyunoglu and Ali Yücel an outstanding freestyle wrestler. 1969 sparked Ali Riza the previously best Turkish flyweight Mehmet Esenceli in the national team and gave at the European Championships in 1969 in Sofia his debut at an international championship. He fought there very well, winning four fights, but lost in the 5th round against Baju Baew from Bulgaria and reached the fourth place. At the World Championships the same year in Mar del Plata Ali was unable to attend because Turkey sent there without a team.
At the European Championships in Berlin in 1970 Ali Riza then won his first medal at an international championship, the silver. In the final, he lost again against Baju Baew. At the World Cup 1970 in Edmonton then Ali Riza was hold happiness. He won three fights and lost to Mohammad Ghorbani from Iran, but came anyway, thanks to a free lot and a particularly happy constellation in the composition of the solution pairs to the world title.
1971 and 1972 was followed by two weaker years for Ali Riza. He finished at the World Championships in 1971 only the 7th place, although he was unlucky because of an injury in the fourth fight. At the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972, he came even only on the 9th Place. Particularly surprising it was his defeat by the Indians Sudesh Kumar.
In the years 1973, 1974 and 1975, Ali Riza won then three runner-up title. In 1973 he was European Vice Champion in Lausanne after a defeat against arsenic Alachwerdiew from the USSR, 1974, he was runner-up in Istanbul. He succeeded in doing an impressive victory over the new Soviet Star Roman Dmitriev and 1975 he was again in Ludwigshafen Vice European Champion, which he won this time against arsenic Alachwerdiew, but lost to Ognjan Nikolov of Bulgaria and Wladyslaw Stecyk from Poland.
Ali Riza came after the World Championships 1975 in Minsk, where he finished only 10th place back, but the rings remained as a coach in Tokat.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, F = free style, Fl = flyweight )