Ä°smail Ogan
İsmail Ogan ( born March 5, 1933 Macun, Elmalı ) is a former Turkish wrestler.
Career
İsmail Ogan comes from Antalya on the southern Mediterranean coast of Turkey. After the oil rings, with which he started, he went with 17 years to go to the Olympic rings. It was not long before he attracted by very good performance at the national level, the attention of the leading men in the Turkish Wrestling Federation. He was inducted into the national team of freestyle wrestler and received with Yasar Dogu and Celal Atik perhaps the best Turkish wrestler trainer that time. At the international wrestling mat, he appeared 1957. In five World Championships he wrestled very successful, winning three medals. European Championships were not then discharged. In his own country he had three tough rivals, he has had to prove itself again and again in İbrahim Zengin, Nuro Ayvar and Mahmut Atalay. At the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 he won the silver medal, beaten only by the U.S. wunderboy Douglas Blubaugh, which he left as the only opponent just one point victory. 1964 at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, he was able to convince again and was Olympic champion in the welterweight division.
After the Olympic Games in 1964 İsmail Ogan ended his career as an active wrestler and lived again in Antalya.
International success
OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, F = Freestyle, We = welterweight until 1961-73 kg body weight, from 1961 until 78 kg body weight, middleweight and 1961 bis 79 kg