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| Born | 5 July 1934 Acıpayam,Denizli Province, Turkey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 13 October 2011 (aged 77) Denizli, Turkey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Freestyle wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hasan Güngör (5 July 1934 – 13 October 2011) was a middleweightTurkish wrestler and a wrestling coach. He won a gold medal at the 1960 Olympics and a silver medal at the 1964 Olympics, as well as multiple medals at the World, European and Balkan championships.[1]
Hasan Güngör grew up in Acıpayam district of Denizli and started wrestling there. He developed himself as a freestyle wrestler. His international career began in 1957 when he placed third in the middleweight division at the World Championships in Istanbul. He defeated 1956 Olympic championNikola Stanchev from Bulgaria. Güngör won the gold medal at the1958 Wrestling World Cup held in Sofia in 1958 instead of the World Championships.
In 1959, he traveled with the Turkish national team to the Federal Republic of Germany on a sparring trip and defeated the best German middleweights of the time, Horst Heß, Johann Sterr and Georg Utz.
Hasan Güngör won the gold medal inmen's freestyle 79 kg at the1960 Summer Olympics held at the Basilica of Maxentius in Rome, Italy. Hasan Güngör defeated ArgentineJulio Graffigna in the first round by fall at 9:31 minutes of the bout, and BulgarianProdan Gardzhev by decision in the second round. In the third round he drew with IranianMansour Mahdizadeh. In the fourth round, he defeated HungarianGéza Hollósi by decision and reached the final round. In the final round, he defeated AmericanEd DeWitt in 5:06 by pinfall to become the Olympic champion.[2]
Güngör began competing in the light heavyweight division in 1961. At the1961 World Wrestling Championships in Yokohama, Japan, he tied with Olympic champion and multiple-time world champion IranianGholamreza Takhti, but lost to Soviet representativeBoris Gurevich and won the bronze medal. He finished second at the1962 World Wrestling Championships in Toledo, Ohio, United States. He tied with that year's world champion, IranianMansour Mehdizadeh, and defeated the previous year's world championBoris Gurevich on points.
He won the silver medal in the1964 Summer Olympics at themen's freestyle 87 kg held at the Komazawa Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan. Hasan Güngör defeated South KoreanGang Du-man by fall in the first round, PanamanianAlfonso González by fall in the second round, and SovietShota Lomidze by decision in the third round to reach the fourth round. In the fourth round he lost to IranianMansour Mahdizadeh by decision. In the fifth round he defeated AmericanDan Brand by decision. In the final round he lost to Bulgarian Prodan Gardzhev by decision and finished second in the Olympics.[3]
He became the European champion by defeating CzechoslovakJosef Urban in the final of the1966 European Wrestling Championships in Karlsruhe, West Germany. Following two fourth-place finishes at the1967 European Wrestling Championships in Istanbul, Turkey and the World Championships in New Delhi, he ended his career and worked as a coach in Turkey for many years. In his coaching career, he won first place in the Balkan Championships with the Young National Team and third place in the World Championships in Istanbul in 1974 with the A National Team.
He died on 13 October 2011 in Denizli.[4]
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