Osman Duraliev

Osman Duraliew ( Bulgarian Осман Дуралиев; born January 15, 1939 in Razgrad, † April 25, 2011 in Istanbul) was a Bulgarian wrestler Turkish origin.

Career

Osman Duraliew was a member of the Turkish minority in Bulgaria. He grew up in Razgrad and began 1956 with the rings. Having achieved initial success in the field of youth and his great disposition to wrestle was evident that he was delegated to a sports club in Sofia. He found good training conditions and common at that time in an Eastern bloc state support for a top athlete. That's why he was making good progress and had 1962 the Bulgarian top class of heavyweight wrestlers reached in free style. At a size of 1.82 m, he weighed 120 kg and had a stocky, but had a lot of strength. He first arrived in the Bulgarian wrestler team is yet to play because in free style, rank in the Duraliew, Ljutwi Dschiber Akhmedov and Walko Kostov dominated the scene. However, in 1967 he took over from these wrestlers and took until 1972 Bulgaria at two Olympic Games and eight other international championships. In each of these tournaments he won second place. So he won two Olympic silver medals and was four times each World Cup champions and vice- champions. Here, eight times the Soviet wrestler Alexander Medved, whom he defeated seven times, and against whom he once wrestled draw, once the German champion Wilfried Dietrich and once the Soviet citizens Shota Lomidse moved him the way to the top of the podium.

After the 1972 Olympics in Munich Duraliew ended his career as an active wrestler and was until 1989 a very successful coach in the Bulgarian Wrestling Federation. In 1988 /89 by the communist Bulgarian authorities on the Turkish population, an ever greater pressure to assimilate was exercised, which went so far that all Turkish parts of the name should be changed - the multiple world weightlifting champion Naim Süleymanoğlu was called, for example, suddenly Naim Schalamanow - moved he in Turkey over and received the Turkish nationality. Until 2005, he was then in Turkey coach at various clubs Ringer.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, F = Freestyle, S = Heavy weight, from 97 to 1968 kg body weight, SS = Super Heavyweight, from 1969 from 100 kg body weight)