Mithat Bayrak

Mithat Bayrak ( born March 3, 1929 in Adapazarı ) is a former Turkish wrestler. He was two -time Olympic champion at middleweight.

Career

Mithat Bayrak grew up as a teenager in Adapazarı in Asia Minor. As a teenager, he was enthusiastic about the traditional Turkish wrestling, but switched in 1949 to the modern Olympic rings. He joined the club Sakarya " Güres ". After he was struck by his good performance, he was inducted into the Turkish national team wrestler and then had such excellent over the years as coach Gazanfer bilge, Mehmet octave, Huseyin Celal Atik and Erkmen. He struggled only in the Greco- Roman style.

His first start in a major international tournament was in 1955 at the Mediterranean Games, where he still had to settle for 5th place in the welterweight division itself. But a year later he became Olympic champion at the Olympic Games in Melbourne. In 1960 he repeated this success at the Olympic Games in Rome, after he hatte.1964 prevailed in the Olympic excretion against Kâzım Ayvaz he started yet at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, left there but without defeat ( two draws ) from the tournament.

Bayrak finished after his international career as a wrestler and emigrated in 1961 in the Federal Republic of Germany. He wrestled yet almost 20 years for the KSV Witten 07, worked in this club as a coach and entered the joy of rings yet with almost 40 years in the reserve team at the Witten.

In Witten, he opened an inn, which he no longer manages it today. He lives in Herdecke. For his contributions to the sport wrestler he was taken in September 2011 in the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame.

International success

The results from the international championships in which Bayrak attended, are (OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, GR = Greek and Roman. Styles, We = welterweight, Mi = middleweight, then to 74 kg or 79 kg body weight):

Main countries fighting

Swell

  • Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976
  • Various issues of the journal athletics from the years 1952 to 1962
Sakarya Province Mehmet Oktav 1960 Summer Olympics Barcelona Italy France Greece Bulgaria Per Berlin Budapest Savona Grigory Gamarnik Ivar Johansson Rudolf Svedberg Anatoly Kolesov Rudolf Vesper Anatoly Bykov (wrestler) Ferenc Kocsis Roman Vlasov List of Olympic medalists in Greco-Roman wrestling
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