Mahmut Demir

Mahmut Demir ( born January 21, 1970 in Suluova, Amasya ) is a former Turkish wrestler.

Career

Demir began in 1984 with the rings. In a short time he became an outstanding freestyle wrestler, who moved to the Turkish top club " TEDAS " Ankara soon. At a size of 1.84 m, it grew over the heavyweight division soon in the super heavyweight in, where he brought 120 kg usually on the scale. His coaches were Alaattin Yildirim and Nabi Bayram and coach Yakup Topuz.

With 16 years Demir started his international career with a Ringer 2nd in the Balkan Junior Championships in Sonbor. From 1986 to 1990 he then started regularly at the Junior World and European Championships. He won the title of 1990 European junior champion in the heavyweight division.

His debut with the senior he was a 5th place in the heavyweight division at the World Championships in 1989 in Martigny / Switzerland. He reached this point with a 2-0 victory over Sandor Kiss from Hungary this place. At the European Championships in 1990 in Poznan Demir won 3rd place in the heavyweight division his first medal at the senior citizens. In the battle for this bronze medal he defeated the Junior World Champion Heiko Balz from the GDR.

1991 Demir won at the European Championships in Stuttgart again a bronze medal, but this time in the super heavyweight. In a first round fight he had while the German champion Andreas Schröder insert a shoulder defeat.

In the Olympic year 1992 Demir became vice European champion in super heavyweight in Kaposvar. In the final battle he was defeated Andreas Schröder again. At the Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​he scraped with a 4th place after losing to David Gobedischwili from the CIS and Jeff Thue from Canada short of a medal over.

After the Olympic Games in 1992 began the most successful years of Mahmut Demir. He was back in 1993 in Istanbul with a win over Mirabi Valiew from Ukraine European champion in super heavyweight. In 1994 he occupied at the European Championships in Rome, this time behind Merabi Valiew, 2nd place, but was able to celebrate winning his first World Championship title at the World Championship in Istanbul. In the final, he defeated Olympic champion Bruce Baumgartner here from the United States 1-0 on points.

In 1995, Demir in Fribourg against Mirabi Valiew for his second European title. At the World Championships the same year in Atlanta he lost to Bruce Baumgartner and he finished 5th.

The climax of the career of Mahmut Demir the Olympic year of 1996. In the spring he was in Budapest in superior style for the third time European champion and in the Olympic Games in Atlanta, he managed to win the gold medal. In the final he defeated while Alexei Medvedev from Belarus, the son of the Olympic champion Alexander Medved, 3-0 on points.

After this victory, Demir resigned from active wrestling. He is now a businessman in Ankara.

Competitive balance (Overview)

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, F = Freestyle, S = Heavy weight, SS = Super Heavyweight, 100 kg and 130 kg body weight)

Swell

  • International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig
  • Journal " The Ringer ", numbers 05/ 91, 10/91, 05/ 92, 09/ 92, 05/ 93, 09/ 93, 04/ 94, 09/ 94, 06/ 95, 10/95, 04 / 96 and 09 /96
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