Hüseyin Akbaş

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Hüseyin Akbaş
Mohammad Ali Khojastehpour, Mirian Tsalkalamanidze, Hüseyin Akbaş 1956.jpg
Akbaş (right) at the 1956 Olympics
Personal information
Born1933
Almus, Turkey
Died15 February 1989
Sport
SportWrestling

Hüseyin Akbaş (1933–1989) was a Turkish wrestler. He competed in freestyle wrestling at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won a bronze medal in 1956 and a silver in 1964. Akbaş won the world freestyle title in 1954, 1957, 1959 and 1962, placing third in 1955 and 1961 and fourth in 1965.[1][2] In 2011 he was inducted into the United World Wrestling Hall of Fame.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Hüseyin Akbaş". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 16 December 2012. Retrieved 24 March 2012.
  2. ^ Akbas, Hueseyin (TUR). iat.uni-leipzig.de[dead link]
  3. ^ Hall of Fame - Freestyle Archived 18 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine. unitedworldwrestling.org

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