Reşit Karabacak (5 July 1954 – 19 November 2020) was a Turkish

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who competed in the

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Biography

Born in

Erzurum Erzurum (; ) is a city in eastern Anatolia, Turkey. It is the largest city and capital of Erzurum Province and is 1,900 meters (6,233 feet) above sea level. Erzurum had a population of 367,250 in 2010. The city uses the double-headed eagle as ...

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, he became European champion in 1983 in

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, beating Efraim Kamberov (Efraim Kamberoğlu), an ethnic Turk from Bulgaria. Karabacak died from

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in Bursa on 19 November 2020, at the age of 66, during the

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* 1954 births 2020 deaths Olympic wrestlers for Turkey Wrestlers at the 1984 Summer Olympics Turkish male sport wrestlers Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey Sportspeople from Erzurum {{Turkey-wrestling-bio-stub