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İsmet Atlı (1931, Çukurören,
Adana Adana is a large city in southern Turkey. The city is situated on the Seyhan River, inland from the northeastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea. It is the administrative seat of the Adana Province, Adana province, and has a population of 1 81 ...
– 4 April 2014, Adana) was a Turkish Olympic medalist sports wrestler in the Light heavyweight class and a trainer. He won the gold medal in Men's
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at the
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. He was born 1931 in Çukurören village of Kozan district in
Adana Province Adana Province () is a Provinces of Turkey, province and Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey, metropolitan municipality of Turkey located in central Cilicia. The administrative seat of the province is the city of Adana, home to 78.25% of the r ...
of southern
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. He began wrestling in 1950 and was trained by the renowned wrestlers Celal Atik and Yaşar Doğu. He performed at the national level 62 times in his wrestling career, which lasted until 1964. İsmet Atlı competed at several international wrestling events successfully in both wrestling styles and participated at three consecutive Olympic Games in
1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Cairo Fire, Black Saturday in Kingdom of Egypt, Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, ...
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1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, E ...
and
1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Janu ...
. After his retirement from the active sports in 1962, İsmet Atlı acted as a trainer. He also worked as a sports journalist.


Achievements

* 1951
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– gold (Freestyle Middleweight) * 1952
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– 5th (Greco-Roman Light heavyweight) * 1953 World Wrestling Championships in
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– 4th (Greco-Roman Middleweight) * 1954 World Wrestling Championships in
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– silver (Greco-Roman Middleweight) * 1955 World Wrestling Championships in
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– 5th (Greco-Roman Middleweight) * 1956 World Wrestling Cup in
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, Turkey – gold (Freestyle Middleweight) * 1956
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– 4th (Freestyle Middleweight) * 1957 World Wrestling Championships in
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, Turkey – bronze (Freestyle Light heavyweight) * 1960
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– gold (Freestyle Light heavyweight) * 1962 World Wrestling Championships in
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– bronze (Greco-Roman Light heavyweight), 4th (Freestyle Light heavyweight)


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* 1931 births 2014 deaths Sportspeople from Adana Wrestlers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1956 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Turkish male sport wrestlers Olympic gold medalists for Turkey Turkish journalists Olympic medalists in wrestling Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics {{Turkey-journalist-stub Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Turkey Wrestlers at the 1951 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in wrestling 20th-century Turkish sportsmen 21st-century Turkish sportsmen