| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Men's Freestyle Wrestling | ||
| Competitor for Turkey | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
| Gold | 1956 Melbourne, Australia | Bantamweight |
| Gold | 1960 Rome, Italy | Featherweight |
| World Championships | ||
| Gold | 1954 Tokyo, Japan | Bantamweight |
| Gold | 1956 Istanbul, Turkey | Featherweight |
| Silver | 1958 Budapest, Hungary | Featherweight |
| Gold | 1959 Tehran, Iran | Featherweight |
| Balkan Championships | ||
| Gold | 1960 Burgas, Bulgaria | Featherweight |
| Olympic medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling | ||
| Mediterranean Games | ||
| Gold | 1955 Barcelona, Spain | Bantamweight |
Mustafa Dağıstanlı (April 11, 1931, Çarşamba, Turkey), is a former Turkish sports wrestler, who won the gold medal twice in the Men's Freestyle Wrestling at the 1956 Olympics and 1960 Olympics and was three times World champion.
Born on April 11, 1931 in the village Söğütpınar in Çarşamba district of Samsun Province, he began wrestling in his age of 18. Mustafa Dağıstanlı was admitted 1958 to the national team. He is with 70 times the most capped Turkish wrestler and also Turkey's internationally most podium winning wrestler. He won World championship three times besides his two gold medal wins at the Olympics.
Following his retirement, he entered politics and served between 1973 and 1980 as deputy of his hometown Samsun from the Justice Party. Recently, Mustafa Dağıstanlı owns an overland coach business in Ankara bearing his family name.[1]
He is married with seven children and lives currently in Ankara.