Hüseyin Akbaş
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Akbaş (right) at the 1956 Olympics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1933 Almus, Turkey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | February 15, 1989 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Hüseyin Akbaş (1933–1989) was a Turkish wrestler. He competed in freestyle wrestling at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won a bronze medal in 1956 and a silver in 1964. Akbaş won the world freestyle title in 1954, 1957, 1959 and 1962, placing third in 1955 and 1961 and fourth in 1965.[1][2] In 2011 he was inducted into the United World Wrestling Hall of Fame.[3]
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- ↑ "Hüseyin Akbaş". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 16 December 2012. Retrieved 24 March 2012.
- ↑ Akbas, Hueseyin (TUR). iat.uni-leipzig.de
- ↑ Hall of Fame - Freestyle. unitedworldwrestling.org
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