Ergüder Bekişdamat (born 1 January 1969) is a Turkish wrestler competing in the -57 kg division of the

Greco-Roman The Greco-Roman civilization (; also Greco-Roman culture; spelled Graeco-Roman in the Commonwealth), as understood by modern scholars and writers, includes the geographical regions and countries that culturally—and so historically—were di ...

style. Bekişdamat took part at the World Wrestling Championships in

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in Bulgaria,

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in Poland and

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in Sweden placing respectively 10th, 15th and 11th. He competed in the men's Greco-Roman 57 kg at the

1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...

. He won the bronze medal in the -58 kg division at the 1997 European Wrestling Championships in Kouvola, Finland. In 2010, he was appointed coach of the Diyanet Youth Sports Club founded in Izmir. Bekişdamat served as the coach of the Turkey cadet national wrestling team, which participated at the 2011 European Cadets Greco-Roman Wrestling Championships in Poland. He became twice gold medalist at the FILA World Veterans Wrestling Championships held in 2015 at Athens, Greece and in 2016 at Helsinki, Finland.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bekisdamat, Erguder 1969 births Living people Turkish male sport wrestlers Olympic wrestlers for Turkey Wrestlers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) European Wrestling Championships medalists 20th-century Turkish people 21st-century Turkish people