Tevfik Kış

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Medal record
Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling
Olympic Games
Gold	1960 Rome, Italy	Light heavyweight
World Championships
Gold	1962 Toledo, Ohio, U.S.	Light heavyweight
Gold	1963 Helsinki, Finland	Light heavyweight
Silver	1966 Helsinki, Finland	Light heavyweight
European Championships
Gold	1966 Essen, Germany	Light heavyweight
Mediterranean Games
Gold	1959 Beirut, Lebanon	Light heavyweight
Balkan Championships
Silver	1959 Istanbul, Turkey	Light heavyweight

Tevfik Kış (August 10, 1934, Çorum), is a former Turkish European, World and Olympic champion sports wrestler in the Light heavyweight class (87kg) and a trainer. He won the gold medal in Men's Greco-Roman wrestling at rhe 1960 Olympics.

Born 1934 in Pelitcik village of Kargı district in the Çorum Province, he began 1956 wrestling. Competing in Greco-Roman style, Tevfik Kış became gold medalist in wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He won later World and European championships. After his unsuccessful participation at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, he retired from the active sports and served then as trainer of his country's national team. Tevfik Kış is a co-founder of the Turkish Wrestling Foundation ans is active on its board.

He is married with two children and lives in Ankara running a restaurant.