İsmet Atlı

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Medal record
Men's Freestyle Wrestling


Olympic Games
Gold 1960 Rome, Italy Light heavyweight


World Championships
Bronze 1957 Istanbul, Turkey Light heavyweight


World Cup
Gold 1956 Istanbul, Turkey Middleweight


Mediterranean Games
Gold 1951 Alexandria, Egypt Middleweight


Olympic medal record
Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling


World Championships
Silver 1954 Tokyo, Japan Middleweight
Bronze 1962 Toledo, Ohio, U.S. Light heavyweight


İsmet Atlı (1931, Adana), is a former Turkish Olympic medalist sports wrestler in the Light heavyweight class and a trainer. He won the gold medal in Men's Freestyle wrestling at the 1960 Olympics.

He was born 1931 in Çukurören village of Kozan district in Adana Province of southern Turkey. He began wrestling in 1950 and was trained by the renowned wrestlers Celal Atik and Yaşar Doğu.

İsmet Atlı competed at several international wrestling events successfully in both wrestling styles and participated at three consecutive Olympic Games in 1952, 1956 and 1960.

After his retirement from the active sports in 1962, İsmet Atlı acted as a trainer. Currently, he is a sports journalist.

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