Nasuh Akar

Nasuh Akar ( born May 10, 1925 in Boğazlıyan, Yozgat, † 18 May 1984) was a Turkish wrestler. He was Olympic champion in 1948 in London in free style bantamweight.

Career

Nasuh Akar comes from the province of Yozgat. He started as a teenager with rings and developed into an excellent freestyle wrestler. In 1946 he participated in the first taking place after the Second World War international championship in wrestling, the European Championships in free style in Stockholm part. There it was in the bantamweight, where Nasuh started to quite turbulent, because four wrestlers defeated each other. Nasuh Akar get it, inter alia, Victories over the Finnish Masters Erkki Johansson and the Hungarian master Lajos Bencze, while he lost against the two -time Vice European Champion in 1938 and 1939 Kurt Pettersen of Sweden on points. In the final account Bencze won ahead of Akar, Johansson and Pettersen.

1948 succeeded Nasuh then the biggest success of his wrestler 's career. He was in London Olympic champion bantamweight. This victory was achieved very confident, because Nasuh scored four shoulder -and two- point victories.

Also at the European Championships 1949, held in Istanbul, won Nasuh. He won it four fights, he had to deny, without any problems. In the final battle with a points victory over Kurt Pettersen he also succeeded in revenge for the defeat of 1946.

In 1950 Nasuh in a Turkish wrestler season, which rank in Istanbul against the Federal Republic of Germany and triumphed over after a long abstinence for the first time permitted on the international wrestling mat and overmatched Germans 8-0. Nasuh Akar celebrated while a shoulder victory over Manfred Sparrow from Feudenheim. Finally Nasuh won in 1951 at the World Championships in Helsinki in the Bantamweight. These ranged him three victories.

After the World Cup in 1951, there was in Turkey to differences between some wrestlers from the national team and the Turkish Wrestling Federation, where it came to allegedly false expense reports. Besides Ali Yücel and Nurettin Zafer Akar Nasuh it also was affected. The Turkish Wrestling Federation these athletes told unceremoniously to professionals, which they were unable to attend the 1952 Olympics.

Nasuh Akar then ended his career as an active wrestler, wrestling was retained as coach.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, F = Freestyle, Ba = bantamweight, then to 57 kg body weight)

Swell

  • Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976
  • Journal athletics from the years 1949 to 1951
  • Website of the Institute for Applied Training Science of the University of Leipzig
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