Fevzi Åžeker

Fevzi Şeker ( born July 27, 1962 in Sivas, Turkey, † 15 December, 2011 Elmadağ, Turkey ) is a former Turkish wrestler. He was European champion in 1990 in the free style in a lightweight.

Career

Fevzi Şeker began in 1972 in his home town of Sivas with the rings. After he was pushed forward as a junior in the national forefront of freestyle wrestler, he switched to sports club Fatih Güres Külübünde Istanbul. Later, he also wrestled yet for Tofas Spor Kulübü SAS, Simtel Spor and Iskenderun Külübü Demircelik Spor Külübünde. The coaches, mainly in his career assisted him were Servet Meric, Nasuh Akar and Muharrem Atik.

His international career began Ringer age of 17 in 1979. He finished this year at the Balkan Games in Yambol in Lightweight 2nd place. In 1981, he came at the Junior World Championships in Vancouver in lightweight on an excellent 3rd place. In this year he also started already at the European Championship in Lodz and took there at lightweight with a win over Zsura Janos from Hungary and defeats Karl -Heinz Ruch from the FRG and Jukka Rauhala from Finland the 7th Place.

1983 celebrated Fevzi Şeker at the European Championships in Budapest in lightweight after winning the European vice-champion title his first big success in the seniors. He lost in Budapest only in the final against the Bulgarians Kamen Penev. At the World Championships this year in Kiev he disappointed and came without a win only on the 15.Platz.

At the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, he reached in his pool with two victories and defeats Masakazu Kamimura from Japan and You In - tak from South Korea to third place. He was able to fight only to the 5th Place. He also lost this fight against Australian Zsigmond Kelevitz that finished 6th place.

1985 was again Fevzi Şeker in Leipzig European vice-champion at lightweight. Along the way, he defeated among others the strong Bulgarian Simeon Schterew. In the final battle he lost against the multiple world champion arsenic Fadsajew from the Soviet Union. Then get him even at the European Championships 1987 in Veliko Tarnovo / Bulgaria and in Martigny / Switzerland medal winnings. He won a bronze medal in the welterweight division there in each case, in the meantime he had ascended.

At the European Championships in 1988 in Manchester, he came welterweight only on the 10th Place. At the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, he was not used and also in the World Cup 1989 in Martigny, he came only to 10th place.

The greatest success of his career, he scored then at the European Championships in 1990 in Poznan, where he had again abtrainiert in the lightweight. He won there in the final of the German champion Georg Swabia just 1-0 techn. Points and became European Champion.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, F = free style, Le = Lightweight, We = welterweight, then to 68 kg or 74 kg body weight)

At the end of the year 1990, he finished his wrestler 's career.

Swell

• Journal The wrestler, numbers: 5/ 1981 6/1981, 6/ 1982 9/1983, 10/ 1983 9/1984, 5/ 1985 6/1987, 9 /1987 6/1988, 5 /1989 9/1989 5/1990,
• Website of the Institute for Applied Training Science of the University of Leipzig,
• Website " www.turkforum.gen.tr "

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Profile of Fevzi Şeker at the Institute for Applied Training Science

• Turk
• Ringer (Turkey)
• Olympian (Turkey)
• European Champion (wrestling )
• Born in 1962
• Man
• Died in 2011