Sezar Akgül Explained

Sezar Akgül
Nationality:Turkish
Birth Date:27 April 1988
Birth Place:Amasya, Turkey
Sport:Sport wrestling
Event:Freestyle

Sezar Akgul, aka Sezer Akgül, (born on 27 April 1988 in Amasya) is a freestyle wrestler from Turkey.

He won a bronze medal at the 2007 European Wrestling Championships held in Sofia, Bulgaria[1] and again at the 2008 European Wrestling Championships in Tampere, Finland.[2] He also won silver medal at the 2009 FILA Wrestling World Championships.[3]

Sezar Akgül participated in Men's freestyle 55 kg at 2008 Summer Olympics. In 1/8 of final, he lost to Japanese Tomohiro Matsunaga. In the repechage round after beating Adama Diatta from Senegal, he was eliminated by Dilshod Mansurov (Uzbekistan).

He won the gold medal in the freestyle 55 kg event at the 2009 Mediterranean Games held in Pescara, Italy.[4]

In 2013, he repeated his European bronze medal title at the championships held in Tbilisi, Georgia.[5] at the 2013 World Wrestling Championships in Budapest, Hungary, he won the bronze medal.[6]

In June 2015, he competed in the inaugural European Games, for Turkey in wrestling, more specifically, Men's freestyle in the 57 kilogram range. He earned a bronze medal.

Notes and References

  1. News: Serbest güreşte bronz yağmuru . Sabah Spor . 2007-04-22 . Turkish . 2013-03-22 .
  2. News: Şahin altına uçtu . Milliyet Spor . 2008-04-02 . Turkish . 2013-03-22 .
  3. News: Sezar Akgül'den gümüş madalya . Sabah Spor . 2009-09-21 . Turkish . 2013-03-22 .
  4. News: Serbest güreşte Akgül'den altın madalya . . 2009-06-28 . Turkish . 2013-03-22 .
  5. News: Minderde çifte bronz . Sabah Spor . 2013-03-20 . Turkish . 2013-04-22 .
  6. Web site: 2013 Senior World Championship . FILA . 2013-09-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130913093108/http://www.fila-official.com/sites/ultimate/index.php . 2013-09-13 .