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Taha Akgül
Taha Akgül (born 22 November 1990 in Sivas) is an Olympic, World, European champion, and retired Turkish freestyle wrestler competing in the 125 kg division. He is a 3 time world (2014, 2015, 2022) and 11 time European (2012-2015, 2017-2019, 2021-2024) champion. He won the gold medal in the 2016 Summer Olympics and the bronze medal in the 2020 Summer Olympics as well as in the 2024 Summer Olympics at 125 kg. He is a graduate of the Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University Physical Education and Sports Academy and completed his master's degree at Sivas Cumhuriyet University. He is the current president of the Turkish Wrestling Federation. Wrestling career Akgül took up wrestling in 2003 following his father and brother. He won the gold medal at the 40th Yaşar Doğu International Wrestling Tournament held in 2012. At the 2012 European Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia, Taha Akgül became champion in his weight category. He qualified for the 2012 Olympics. He did n ...
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Sivas
Sivas is a city in central Turkey. It is the seat of Sivas Province and Sivas District.İl Belediyesi
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
Its population is 365,274 (2022). The city, which lies at an elevation of in the broad valley of the Kızılırmak River, Kızılırmak river, is a moderately sized trade centre and industrial city, although the economy has traditionally been based on agriculture. Rail repair shops and a thriving manufacturing industry of rugs, bricks, cement, and cotton and woolen Textile, textiles form the mainstays of the city's economy. The surrounding region is a cereal-producing area with large deposits of iron ore which are worked at Divriği. Sivas is also a Communications system, communications hub for the north–south and east–we ...
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Wrestling At The 2024 Summer Olympics
The amateur wrestling, wrestling competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris were held from 5 to 11 August at Grand Palais Éphémère in Champ de Mars. 288 wrestlers competed across 18 weight categories at these Games. The men wrestled against each other in both freestyle wrestling, freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling, Greco-Roman events, whereas the women only participated in the freestyle wrestling, with 18 gold medals awarded. Amateur wrestling, Wrestling has been contested at every modern Summer Olympic Games, except 1900 Summer Olympics, Paris 1900. Mijaín López became the first and only athlete in modern Olympics history to win five consecutive gold medals in the same individual event after winning in the Wrestling at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman 130 kg, Greco-Roman wrestling 130 kg, Japan at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Japan has topped the medal table for the fourth time. Competition format Sixteen wrestlers compete in each division. The co ...
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2013 World Wrestling Championships – Men's Freestyle 120 Kg
The men's freestyle 120 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2013 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the László Papp Budapest Sports Arena in Budapest, Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ... on 17 September 2013. This freestyle wrestling competition consists of a single-elimination tournament, with a repechage used to determine the winner of two bronze medals. Results ;Legend *C — Won by 3 cautions given to the opponent *F — Won by fall *R — Retired Final Top half Bottom half Repechage ReferencesResults Book, Page 30 {{DEFAULTSORT:2013 World Wrestling Championships - Men's freestyle 120 kg Men's freestyle 99 kg ...
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2013 World Wrestling Championships
The 2013 World Wrestling Championships was the 9th edition of World Wrestling Championships of combined events and were held from September 16 to 22 in Budapest, Hungary. Medal table Team ranking Medal summary Men's freestyle Men's Greco-Roman Women's freestyle Participating nations 681 competitors from 87 nations participated. * (2) * (2) * (3) * (13) * (1) * (7) * (18) * (21) * (9) * (20) * (2) * (14) * (1) * (21) * (3) * (9) * (5) * (11) * (7) * (2) * (6) * (7) * (1) * (6) * (5) * (7) * (14) * (17) * (1) * (13) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (4) * (21) * (21) * (14) * (2) * (4) * (4) * (21) * (1) * (21) * (12) * (5) * (6) * (2) * (2) * (1) * (8) * (14) * (14) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (3) * (1) * (7) * (4) * (1) * (2) * (2) * (18) * (1) * (4) * (1) * (15) * (21) * (3) * (5) * (8) * (1) * (4) * (17) * (6) * (5) * (10) * (3) * (4) * (3) * (20) * (21) * (1) * (21) * (12) * (17) * (9) References Results Book External links * {{World championships in 2013 World Wrestling Ch ...
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2019 World Wrestling Championships – Men's Freestyle 125 Kg
The men's freestyle 125 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2019 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan on 20 and 21 September. This freestyle wrestling competition consists of a single-elimination tournament, with a repechage used to determine the winner of two bronze medals. The two finalists face off for gold and silver medals. Each wrestler who loses to one of the two finalists moves into the repechage, culminating in a pair of bronze medal matches featuring the semifinal losers each facing the remaining repechage opponent from their half of the bracket. Results ;Legend *C — Won by 3 cautions given to the opponent *F — Won by fall Final Top half Bottom half Repechage * Khasanboy Rakhimov of Uzbekistan originally won the bronze medal, but was disqualified after he tested positive for doping. Deng Zhiwei was raised to third and took the bronze medal. Badzha Khutaba from Syria who originally finished 5th also failed the d ...
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2019 World Wrestling Championships
The 2019 World Wrestling Championships were held in Astana, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan from 14 September to 22 September 2019. The tournament served as qualification for the Wrestling at the 2020 Summer Olympics, 2020 Summer Olympics, the top six wrestlers from each category earned their NOCs a qualification. Medal table Team ranking Medal summary Men's freestyle Men's Greco-Roman Women's freestyle Participating nations 872 competitors from 95 nations participated. * (3) * (7) * (1) * (2) * (15) * (3) * (8) * (28) * (2) * (26) * (6) * (19) * (1) * (2) * (18) * (1) * (1) * (29) * (7) * (8) * (1) * (5) * (12) * (7) * (3) * (3) * (9) * (5) * (1) * (7) * (10) * (20) * (23) * (2) * (5) * (4) * (2) * (2) * (2) * (18) * (30) * (20) * (6) * (10) * (1) * (30) * (30) * (1) * (22) * (2) * (1) * (11) * (6) * (19) * (21) * (4) * (1) * (2) * (4) * (6) * (8) * (4) * (6) * (3) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (21) * (2) * (3) * (2) * (14) * (30) * (2) * (6) * (1) * (3) * (1) * (30) * ...
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2017 World Wrestling Championships - Men's Freestyle 125 Kg
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2017 World Wrestling Championships
The 2017 World Wrestling Championships were the 14th edition of World Wrestling Championships of combined events and was held from August 21 to 27 in Paris, France. Medal table Team ranking Medal summary Men's freestyle Men's Greco-Roman Women's freestyle Participating nations 684 competitors from 73 nations participated. * (1) * (3) * (2) * (12) * (6) * (6) * (22) * (1) * (22) * (7) * (19) * (16) * (2) * (22) * (3) * (9) * (1) * (4) * (10) * (7) * (3) * (8) * (8) * (5) * (5) * (23) * (16) * (20) * (7) * (1) * (2) * (16) * (24) * (16) * (5) * (5) * (24) * (23) * (19) * (3) * (9) * (3) * (13) * (16) * (5) * (1) * (1) * (3) * (6) * (6) * (5) * (2) * (1) * (8) * (18) * (3) * (1) * (10) * (24) * (5) * (5) * (1) * (24) * (5) * (9) * (2) * (1) * (2) * (23) * (24) * (24) * (11) * (5) References External links Results Book {{World championships in 2017 World Wrestling Championships World Wrestling Championships World Wrestling Championships World W ...
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2022 World Wrestling Championships – Men's Freestyle 125 Kg
The men's freestyle 125 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Belgrade Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. T ..., Serbia on 15 and 16 September 2022. This freestyle wrestling competition consists of a single-elimination tournament, with a repechage used to determine the winner of two bronze medals. The two finalists face off for gold and silver medals. Each wrestler who loses to one of the two finalists moves into the repechage, culminating in a pair of bronze medal matches featuring the semifinal losers each facing the remaining repechage opponent from their half of the bracket. Results ;Legend *F — Won by fall * WO — Won by walkover Final Top half Bottom half Repechage Final standing Referen ...
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2022 World Wrestling Championships
The 2022 World Wrestling Championships was the 17th edition of the World Wrestling Championships of combined events and was held between 10 and 18 September 2022 in Belgrade, Serbia. The UWW Bureau approved the candidature of Belgrade, Serbia as the host of the 2023 Senior World Championships. However, due to the restrictions on Russian Federation, Russia for hosting World Championships in 2021–2022, Belgrade replaced the former city of Krasnoyarsk as the World Championships host for 2022. In addition, Russian and Belarusian athletes have been banned from 2022 World Championships. Medal table Team ranking Medal summary Men's freestyle Men's Greco-Roman Women's freestyle Participating nations 743 competitors from 75 nations and a refugee team (under UWW name) participated: * (2) * (4) * (3) * (14) * (2) * (4) * (24) * (11) * (20) * (20) * (1) * (1) * (3) * (29) * (4) * (1) * (7) * (1) * (5) * (12) * (5) * (3) * (3) * (6) * (5) * (3) * (15) * (20) * (23) * (1) * (3 ...
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2015 World Wrestling Championships – Men's Freestyle 125 Kg
The men's freestyle 125 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2015 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Las Vegas, United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ... on 12 September 2015. This freestyle wrestling competition consisted of a single-elimination tournament, with a repechage used to determine the winners of two bronze medals. Results ;Legend *F — Won by fall *R — Retired *WO — Won by walkover Final Top half Bottom half Repechage ReferencesOfficial website {{DEFAULTSORT:2015 World Wrestling Championships - Men's freestyle 99 kg Men's freestyle 99 kg ...
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2015 World Wrestling Championships
The 2015 UWW World Wrestling Championships were the 12th edition of World Wrestling Championships of combined events and was held from September 7 to 12 at Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada, in the Las Vegas Valley, United States. Medal table Team ranking Medal summary Men's freestyle Men's Greco-Roman Women's freestyle Participating nations 821 competitors from 95 nations participated. * (3) * (2) * (5) * (2) * (15) * (3) * (12) * (23) * (23) * (1) * (17) * (22) * (2) * (18) * (4) * (24) * (2) * (10) * (1) * (6) * (11) * (10) * (2) * (3) * (9) * (1) * (6) * (8) * (7) * (16) * (20) * (1) * (11) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (3) * (21) * (23) * (16) * (1) * (1) * (7) * (12) * (24) * (24) * (2) * (16) * (4) * (7) * (5) * (3) * (13) * (16) * (2) * (16) * (5) * (3) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (1) * (7) * (6) * (1) * (3) * (1) * (1) * (4) * (16) * (3) * (10) * (12) * (23) * (2) * (7) * (8) * (2) * (5) * (22) * (9) * (4) * (9) * (7) * (9) * (1) * (1) * (24) * (6) * (24) * (24) * (15) ...
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