Mustafa Dağıstanlı Sports Hall () is a multi-purpose

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located in

İlkadım Ilkadim is a municipality and district of Samsun Province, Turkey. Its area is 155 km2, and its population is 333,518 (2022). It is located on the coast of Black Sea. The district has an altitude of 5 meters.It is also the most populous dist ...

district of

Samsun Province Samsun Province () is a province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey on the Black Sea coast. Its area is 9,725 km2, and its population is 1,368,488 (2022). Its adjacent provinces are Sinop on the northwest, Çorum on the west, Amasy ...

, northern Turkey. It was named in honor of

Mustafa Dağıstanlı Mustafa Dağıstanlı (11 April 1931 – 18 September 2022) was a Turkish wrestler. He had his best achievements in freestyle wrestling, winning gold medals at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics and 1954, 1957, and 1959 world championships. In Greco-Roma ...

(born 1931), a local

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, who became twice Olympic and three times world champion in freestyle. The arena is situated in Hançerli Mah., Atatürk Boulevard. 17, İlkadım. The groundbreaking of the building took place on December 17, 2011. It was opened in presence of

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on June 2, 2013. It is situated on Adnan Menderes Boulevard next to

Ondokuz Mayıs University Ondokuz Mayıs University (OMU) is a major state university founded in 1975 in Samsun, Turkey. The university bears the name “19 May”, which marks the date when Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the Republic of Turkey, came to Samsun in or ...

's İlkadım Campus. The sports hall hosts a great variety of sports in addition to badminton, basketball, fencing and volleyball competitions, like boxing, judo, karate, taekwondo, kickboxing, wrestling, weightlifting, table tennis, chess and shooting. The venue has a seating capacity for 2,000 spectators, including 100 for VIP, 100 for media members, 100 for accredited sportspeople and 80 for physically handicapped people.

International events hosted

In 2016, the European Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament and

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were held in the sports hall. The venue will host volleyball events of the

2017 Summer Deaflympics The 2017 Summer Deaflympics (), officially known as the 23rd Summer Deaflympics (), is an international multi-sport event that took place in Samsun, Turkey from July 18 to July 30, 2017. 3,148 athletes from 97 countries competed in 18 sports with ...

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