İsmail Ogan

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Medal record
Men's Freestyle Wrestling
Olympic Games
Silver	1960 Rome, Italy	Welterweight
Gold	1964 Tokyo, Japan	Welterweight
World Championships
Silver	1957 Istanbul, Turkey	Welterweight
Bronze	1959 Tehran, Iran	Middleweight
Bronze	1963 Sofia, Bulgaria	Welterweight
Bronze	1965 Sofia, Bulgaria	Welterweight
World Cup
Gold	1958 Sofia, Bulgaria	Welterweight
Balkan Championships
Gold	1964 Constanţa, Romania	Welterweight
Adriatic Cup
Gold	1957 Opatija, Yugoslavia	Welterweight

İsmail Ogan (March 5, 1933, Antalya), is a former Turkish Olympic medalist sports wrestler in the Welterweight class (73kg until 1961, 78kg from 1961 on) and a trainer. He won the silver medal in Men's Freestyle wrestling at the 1960 Olympics and the gold medal at the 1964 Olympics.

He was born 1933 in Macun, a village in Antalya Province of southern Turkey. İsmail Ogan began wrestling in the traditional Turkish yağlı güreş (oil wrestling) and then switched over to sports wrestling in 1950 after he was discovered by Yaşar Doğu. Soon, he was admitted to the national team and received training by the renowned wrestlers Celal Atik and Yaşar Doğu. Besides his medals at two Olympic Games, İsmail Ogan won several titles at various cups and championships.

He retired from the active sports in 1964 after having represented his country 52 times successfully at international competitions and served then for 10 more years as the regional trainer .^[1]

İsmail Ogan is married and has two children. He lives in Antalya.