Burhan Akbudak (born 1 June 1995) competing in the 82 kg division of
Greco-Roman wrestling
Greco-Roman (American English), Graeco-Roman (British English), classic wrestling (Euro English) or French wrestling (in Russia until 1948) is a style of wrestling that is practiced worldwide. Greco-Roman wrestling was included in the first mod ...
. He is a member of
Istanbul BB SK.
Career
Burhan Akbudak, competing in Greco-Roman wrestling 82 kilograms category, won a gold medal in the U23 World Wrestling Championships, which was held in Bydgoszcz, Poland .
Burhan Akbudak won silver at
2021 World Wrestling Championships
The 2021 World Wrestling Championships was the 17th edition of the World Wrestling Championships of combined events and was held from 2 to 10 October 2021 in Oslo, Norway.
The event was subsequent to the 2019 World Championships due to the canc ...
. Burhan Akbudak, who competed in the World Championship for the first time in the seniors category, faced the European champion and Olympic third runner-up, Azerbaijani
Rafig Huseynov
Rafig Huseynov ( az, Rafiq Hüseynov; born 16 May 1988) is an Azerbaijani people, Azerbaijani Greco-Roman wrestler. He defeated Hungarian Péter Bácsi for the gold medal in his respective division at the 2011 European Wr ...
, in the final. The Azerbaijani wrestler who won the match 2-1 won the gold medal, while Burhan won the silver medal. Burhan Akbudak, beat Armenian Gegham Torgomyan by 12–0 in the first round, and defeated Hungarian Laszlo Szabo by 11–0 in the second round. Defeating the American Benjamin Provisor in the quarter-finals with a 10-0 point key, the national wrestler won the match with Iranian Pejman Soltanmorad Poshtam 5–2 in the semi-finals and made his mark in the final.
In 2022, he won the gold medal in his event at the
Vehbi Emre & Hamit Kaplan Tournament held in Istanbul, Turkey. Burhan Akbudak beat Uzbekistan's Jalgasbay Berdimuratov 7–6 in men's Greco-Roman 82 kg at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, scoring his first-ever gold in the tournament.
Burhan Akbudak became the European champion for the first time at the
2023 European Wrestling Championships in Zagreb, Croatia, by winning the final match of the men's 82 kg wrestling championships with a 3–3 draw with Ukraine's Yaroslav Filchakov and winning with the advantage of the last point. Burhan Akbudak, who started the championship from the last 16 round, defeated his Serbian opponent Branko Kovacevic with 9-0 technical superiority and reached the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals, Burhan Akbudak met German Roland Schwarz. Burhan defeated his German opponent with the same score of 9-0 technical superiority and made his name in the semifinals. In the semi-final against Azerbaijan's Refik Hüseynov, Burhan Akbudak defeated his opponent with a 5–1 lead and reached the final.
Major results
References
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1995 births
Living people
Sportspeople from KahramanmaraÅŸ
Turkish male sport wrestlers
Islamic Solidarity Games medalists in wrestling
World Wrestling Championships medalists
World Wrestling Champions
European Wrestling Championships medalists
European champions for Turkey
European Wrestling Champions
21st-century Turkish sportspeople
Islamic Solidarity Games bronze medalists for Turkey