Adil Atan ( Abkhaz: name Twanba, 1 January 1929 – 18 April 1989) was a Turkish wrestler. He was born in

Adapazarı Adapazarı () is a city in northwestern Turkey and the central district of Sakarya Province. The province itself was originally named Adapazarı as well. Adapazarı is a part of the densely populated region of the country known as the Marmara Regi ...

in the

Sakarya Province Sakarya ( tr, ) is a province in Turkey, located on the coast of Black Sea. The Sakarya River creates a webbing of estuaries in the province, which is in the Marmara Region. The adjacent provinces are Kocaeli to the west, Bilecik to the south, ...

. He was Olympic bronze medalist in

Freestyle wrestling Freestyle wrestling is a style of wrestling originated from Great Britain and the United States. Along with Greco-Roman, it is one of the two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic Games. American high school and men's college wrestling ...

in 1952, and also competed at the 1956 Olympics.

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* 1929 births 1989 deaths Turkish people of Abkhazian descent Sportspeople from Adapazarı Olympic wrestlers of Turkey Wrestlers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1956 Summer Olympics Turkish male sport wrestlers Olympic bronze medalists for Turkey Olympic medalists in wrestling Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics Road incident deaths in Turkey 20th-century Turkish people {{Turkey-wrestling-bio-stub