Name Mustafa Dagistanli Height 1.68 m | Role Olympic athlete | |
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Awards Milliyet Sports Award for Athlete of the Year People also search for Mikhail Shakhov, Vladimir Rubashvili, Mehdi Yaghoubi, Stancho Kolev | ||
Mustafa Dağıstanlı (11 April 1931, Çarşamba, Turkey), is a former Turkish sports wrestler who won the gold medal twice in the Men's Freestyle Wrestling at the 1956 Olympics and 1960 Olympics and was three times World champion.
Born on 11 April 1931 in the village Söğütpınar in Çarşamba district of Samsun Province, he began wrestling in his age of 18. Mustafa Dağıstanlı was admitted 1958 to the national team. He is with 70 times the most capped Turkish wrestler and also Turkey's internationally most podium winning wrestler. He won World championship three times besides his two gold medal wins at the Olympics.
Following his retirement, he entered politics and served between 1973 and 1980 as deputy of his hometown Samsun from the Justice Party. Recently, Mustafa Dağıstanlı owns an overland coach business in Ankara bearing his family name.
He is married with seven children and lives currently in Ankara.
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