Ahmet Bilek

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Medal record
Men's Freestyle Wrestling
Olympic Games
Gold	1960 Rome	Flyweight
World Championships
Silver	1953 Naples, Italy	Flyweight
Silver	1959 Tehran, Iran	Flyweight
Balkan Championships
Silver	1960 Burgas, Bulgaria	Flyweight

Olympic medal record
Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling
Mediterranean Games
Gold	1955 Barcelona, Spain	Flyweight

Ahmet Bilek (1932, Kula in Manisa, Turkey - 1971, Germany), was a Turkish Olympic champion sports wrestler in the Flyweight class (52kg) and a trainer. He won the gold medal in Men's Freestyle wrestling at rhe 1960 Olympics.

He was born 1932 in the western Turkish town Kula in Manisa Province.

After his successful participation at the Olympics in Rome, Ahmet Bilek emigrated to Germany following his teammates Mithat Bayrak and Müzahir Sille. He continued his sports career in the wrestling club KSV Köllerbach in Püttlingen, a small town near Saarbrücken and became German champion in 1966 and 1968.^[1]

Ahmet Bilek ended his life 1971 in Germany.^[2] He was married with Ayten and had a daughter Sevil.^[3]

[edit] Achievements

• 1953 World Wrestling Championships in Naples, Italy - silver (Freestyle Flyweight)
• 1955 Mediterranean Games in Barcelona, Spain - gold (Greco-Roman Flyweight)
• 1959 World Wrestling Championships in Tehran, Iran - silver (Freestyle Flyweight)
• 1960 Balkan Wrestling Championships in Burgas, Bulgaria - silver (Freestyle Flyweight)
• 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy - gold (Freestyle Flyweight)

[edit] External links

• Olympics Database
• Wrestling File (Turkish)

[edit] References

1. ^ KSV Witten (German)
2. ^ Newspaper Yeni Şafak, December 27, 2001 (Turkish)
3. ^ Budget and Financial Control Directoriate of Turkish Government (Turkish)