1995 World Freestyle Championships
Host city	Atlanta, United States
Dates	August 10–13
Stadium	Georgia World Congress Center
Champions
Freestyle	United States

1995 World Greco-Roman Championships
Host city	Prague, Czech Republic
Dates	October 12–15
Champions
Greco-Roman	Russia

1995 World Women Championships
Host city	Moscow, Russia
Dates	September 9–11
Champions
Women	Russia

The following is the final results of the 1995 FILA Wrestling World Championships. Men's Freestyle Competition were held in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Men's Greco-Roman Competition were held in Prague, Czech Republic and Women's Competition were held in Moscow, Russia.

Medal table[link]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	6	3	7	16
2	United States	5	0	4	9
3	Japan	3	4	1	8
4	France	3	1	1	5
5	Ukraine	2	0	2	4
6	Turkey	2	0	1	3
7	Sweden	2	0	0	2
8	Iran	1	2	1	4
9	Armenia	1	1	2	4
10	China	1	1	1	3
11	Austria	1	0	0	1
	Bulgaria	1	0	0	1
	South Korea	1	0	0	1
14	Germany	0	3	4	7
15	Kazakhstan	0	3	0	3
16	Cuba	0	2	3	5
17	Norway	0	2	0	2
18	Venezuela	0	1	1	2
19	Canada	0	1	0	1
	Hungary	0	1	0	1
	Israel	0	1	0	1
	Moldova	0	1	0	1
	Poland	0	1	0	1
	Romania	0	1	0	1
25	Uzbekistan	0	0	1	1
Total		29	29	29	87

Team ranking[link]

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman		Women's freestyle
	Team	Points	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	United States	71	Russia	75	Russia	65
2	Iran	59	Germany	39	Japan	63
3	Russia	58	Poland	31	France	48
4	Turkey	35	Ukraine	30	United States	45
5	Cuba	34	United States	30	China	31
6	Ukraine	29	Kazakhstan	30	Poland	26
7	Germany	27	Sweden	28	Venezuela	25
8	Japan	24	Turkey	27	Ukraine	25
9	Belarus	22	Cuba	27	Norway	23
10	Armenia	19	Armenia	23	Canada	23

Medal summary[link]

Men's freestyle[link]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Vugar Orujov Russia (RUS)	Alexis Vila Cuba (CUB)	Armen Mkrtchyan Armenia (ARM)
52 kg	Valentin Yordanov Bulgaria (BUL)	Gholamreza Mohammadi Iran (IRI)	Zeke Jones United States (USA)
57 kg	Terry Brands United States (USA)	Guivi Sissaouri Canada (CAN)	Harun Doğan Turkey (TUR)
62 kg	Elbrus Tedeyev Ukraine (UKR)	Takahiro Wada Japan (JPN)	Magomed Azizov Russia (RUS)
68 kg	Arayik Gevorgyan Armenia (ARM)	Akbar Fallah Iran (IRI)	Jesús Rodríguez Cuba (CUB)
74 kg	Buvaisar Saitiev Russia (RUS)	Alexander Leipold Germany (GER)	Alberto Rodríguez Cuba (CUB)
82 kg	Kevin Jackson United States (USA)	Elmadi Jabrailov Kazakhstan (KAZ)	Ruslan Khinchagov Uzbekistan (UZB)
90 kg	Rasoul Khadem Iran (IRI)	Makharbek Khadartsev Russia (RUS)	Melvin Douglas United States (USA)
100 kg	Kurt Angle United States (USA)	Arawat Sabejew Germany (GER)	Abbas Jadidi Iran (IRI)
130 kg	Bruce Baumgartner United States (USA)	Sven Thiele Germany (GER)	Leri Khabelov Russia (RUS)

Men's Greco-Roman[link]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Sim Kwon-Ho South Korea (KOR)	Hiroshi Kado Japan (JPN)	Zafar Guliyev Russia (RUS)
52 kg	Samvel Danielyan Russia (RUS)	Armen Nazaryan Armenia (ARM)	Alfred Ter-Mkrtychyan Germany (GER)
57 kg	Dennis Hall United States (USA)	Yuriy Melnichenko Kazakhstan (KAZ)	Aleksandr Ignatenko Russia (RUS)
62 kg	Sergey Martynov Russia (RUS)	Włodzimierz Zawadzki Poland (POL)	Mkhitar Manukyan Armenia (ARM)
68 kg	Rustam Adzhi Ukraine (UKR)	Attila Repka Hungary (HUN)	Jannis Zamanduridis Germany (GER)
74 kg	Yvon Riemer France (FRA)	Bakhtiar Baiseitov Kazakhstan (KAZ)	Filiberto Azcuy Cuba (CUB)
82 kg	Hamza Yerlikaya Turkey (TUR)	Gotsha Tsitsiashvili Israel (ISR)	Thomas Zander Germany (GER)
90 kg	Hakkı Başar Turkey (TUR)	Petru Sudureac Romania (ROU)	Gogi Koguashvili Russia (RUS)
100 kg	Mikael Ljungberg Sweden (SWE)	Héctor Milián Cuba (CUB)	Georgiy Saldadze Ukraine (UKR)
130 kg	Aleksandr Karelin Russia (RUS)	Sergei Mureiko Moldova (MDA)	Matt Ghaffari United States (USA)

Women's freestyle[link]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
44 kg	Shoko Yoshimura Japan (JPN)	Mette Barlie Norway (NOR)	Vickie Zummo United States (USA)
47 kg	Miyu Yamamoto Japan (JPN)	Zhong Xiue China (CHN)	Elena Egochina Russia (RUS)
50 kg	Saneit Ganachuyeva Russia (RUS)	Gyula Pérez Venezuela (VEN)	Yoshiko Endo Japan (JPN)
53 kg	Sophie Pluquet France (FRA)	Kozue Kimura Japan (JPN)	Wendy Izaguirre Venezuela (VEN)
57 kg	Sara Eriksson Sweden (SWE)	Lene Aanes Norway (NOR)	Anna Gomis France (FRA)
61 kg	Nikola Hartmann Austria (AUT)	Natalia Ivanova Russia (RUS)	Kong Yan China (CHN)
65 kg	Yayoi Urano Japan (JPN)	Doris Blind France (FRA)	Natalia Lasarenko Russia (RUS)
70 kg	Lise Golliot France (FRA)	Elmira Kurbanova Russia (RUS)	Nina Englich Germany (GER)
75 kg	Liu Dongfeng China (CHN)	Mitsuko Funakoshi Japan (JPN)	Tetyana Komarnicka Ukraine (UKR)

References[link]

• FILA Database

Hamza Yerlikaya (born June 6, 1976, in Kadıköy, Istanbul) is a Turkish Graeco-Roman style wrestler. He is a two-time (in 1996 and 2000) Olympic champion, three-time World Champion (1993, 1995, and 2005), and the only Turkish wrestler to ever become European champion eight times. He was named The Wrestler of the century in 1996 by the International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles (FILA).

A sports complex in Gaziosmanpaşa district of Istanbul is named after him.

Between 2007-2011, he was a deputy of the ruling Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi.

Early life[link]

His family was originally from Sivas, but they moved to Istanbul three months prior to Hamza's birth. His father Mustafa Yerlikaya is also a wrestler but was no longer active by the time Hamza was born. He started wrestling at age of 11 encouraged by his father and inspired by his elder brother Muttalip Yerlikaya who is also a wrestler with international success.

International wrestling career[link]

Hamza Yerlikaya's first international competition was in 1991 World Cadets Wrestling Championships in Quebec, Canada, in which he got the fourth place. His first senior international event was the 1993 European Wrestling Championships in Istanbul where he got the second place, losing to Thomas Zander in the finals. He surprised some of the spectators who thought this was a coincidence by winning the gold medal in 1993 World Wrestling Championships in Stockholm, Sweden at the age of 17, and hence becoming the youngest ever World Champion in wrestling.

As his age allowed, in some years he participated in seniors, juniors as well as cadets events. He won the World Championship again in 1995 and went on to win his first Olympic gold medal in Atlanta 1996 at the age of 20. He repeated his success four years later in Sydney 2000 and carried the flag for Turkey at the Sydney 2000 opening ceremony. Since then he has won three more World Championships (2002, 2003 and (at 96 kg) 2005). He has won the European Seniors Championship eight times (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2005 and 2006).

He competed in 84 kg Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling for Turkey in 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece and placed 4th.

In April 2007, he withdrew from international competition due to emergency surgery to correct neck fractures, some of which were estimated to have been as much as four years old and never treated. [1]

Affiliations and coaching[link]

• Between years 1986-1996 he was in Istanbul Demirspor club and was coached by Salih Bora and Muzaffer Aydin.
• He did his military service in 1996-1997 and is the only Turkish athlete that won a medal in Olympic Games during military service.
• He was coached by Salih Bora since 1997.
• In years 1998-1999 he was in Emlakbank club.
• Since 1999 he is wrestling for Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality.
• Hakki Basar started coaching him in 2004.

Major international achievements[link]

In reverse chronological order:

• 2006 European Championship in Moscow, Russia - gold (96 kg)
• 2006 World Cup in Budapest, Hungary - gold (96 kg)
• 2005 World Championship in Budapest, Hungary - gold (96 kg)
• 2005 European Championship in Varna, Bulgaria - gold (96 kg)
• 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece - 4th (84 kg)
• 2003 World Championship in Créteil, Paris in France - 7th (84 kg)
• 2002 World Cup in Cairo, Egypt - silver (96 kg)
• 2002 World Championship in Moscow in Russia - 6th (84 kg)
• 2002 European Championship in Seinäjoki, Finland - gold (84 kg)
• 2001 World Championship in Patras in Greece - 9th (85 kg)
• 2001 World Cup in Levallois-Perret, Paris, France - 5th (97 kg)
• 2001 European Championship in Istanbul, Turkey - gold (85 kg)
• 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia - gold (85 kg)
• 1999 World Championship in Athens, Greece - 21st (85 kg)
• 1999 European Championship in Sofia, Bulgaria - gold (85 kg)
• 1998 World Championship in Gävle, Sweden - 5th (85 kg)
• 1998 European Championship in Minsk, Belarus - gold (85 kg)
• 1997 World Cup in Tehran, Iran - gold (85 kg)
• 1997 World Championship in Wrocław, Poland - silver (85 kg)
• 1997 Mediterranean Games in Bari, Italy - gold (85 kg)
• 1997 European Championship in Kouvola, Finland - gold (85 kg)
• 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. - gold (82 kg)
• 1996 European Championship in Budapest, Hungary - gold (82 kg)
• 1995 World Championship in Prague, Czechoslovakia - gold (82 kg)
• 1995 World Espoir Championship in Tehran, Iran - bronze (82 kg)
• 1995 European Championship in Besançon, France - 7th (82 kg)
• 1994 World Championship in Tampere, Finland - 12th (82 kg)
• 1994 World Juniors Championship in Budapest, Hungary - gold (88 kg)
• 1994 European Espoir Championship in Istanbul, Turkey - gold (82 kg)
• 1994 European Championship in Athens, Greece - 5th (82 kg)
• 1993 World Championship in Stockholm, Sweden - gold (82 kg)
• 1993 European Juniors Championship in Götzis, Austria - gold (81 kg)
• 1993 European Championship in Istanbul, Turkey - silver (82 kg)
• 1993 Mediterranean Games in Languedoc-Roussillon, France - bronze (82 kg)
• 1992 World Cadets Championship in Istanbul, Turkey - gold (76 kg)
• 1992 World Juniors Championship in Santiago de Cali, Colombia - silver (74 kg)
• 1991 World Cadets Championship in Alma, Quebec, Canada - 4th (65 kg)

All listed events are Greco-Roman style wrestling.

External links and references[link]

• Hamza Yerlikaya's web page, in Turkish, but contains many photographs.
• A page about Hamza Yerlikaya with photos, and detailed information.
• Athens 2004 page.
• A very short profile from NBC Olympics pages.
• FILA database of wrestling events.

Medal record
Men's Freestyle wrestling
Competitor for  Russia
World Championships
Silver	2010 Moscow	66 kg

Alan Gogayev (Russian: Алан Гогаев; born March 8, 1990) is a male freestyle wrestler from Russia.

External links[link]

• bio on fila-wrestling.com

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Medal record
Men's Wrestling
Competitor for the  United States
Olympic Games
Silver	1992 Barcelona	Freestyle (– 52 kg)
World Championships
Gold	1991 Varna	52 kg
Pan American Games
Gold	1995 Mar del Plata	Freestyle (– 52 kg)
Bronze	1991 Havana	Freestyle (– 52 kg)

Larry ("Zeke") Jones is one of the finest wrestlers in American history who won a silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, a world championship in Varna, Bulgaria in 1991 and is currently the U.S. National Freestyle Head Coach at USA Wrestling. He was a 6X National Freestyle Champion, 4X World Cup Champion, Pan American Games Champion, and received the "World's Most Technical Wrestler Award" awarded by FILA, the international governing body for the sport. In college, he was a three-time All-American for Arizona State University and competed on an NCAA Championship team, coached by famed Bobby Douglas. After college, he wrestled on two world championships teams with the United States Wrestling Team.

Now the current Head Coach of the 2012 US Olympic Freestyle Wrestling team, Zeke coached at the collegiate division I level for 18 years. His first college coaching position was an assistant coach at Bloomsburg University, Arizona State University and West Virginia University before becoming the head coach at the University of Pennsylvania in 2005. In 2008, he accepted the Head Coach of the United States Freestyle Wrestling Team with USA Wrestling at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO.^[1] He was(born December 2, 1966 in Ypsilanti, Michigan)

Early life[link]

As a child he knew that he wanted to wrestle and was influenced by older brother, Johnny, who wrestled at Iowa State University and was a two time national champion.

Jones was citywide champion while a student at Scarlett Junior High School, in Ann Arbor, Michigan where he was coached by U.S. Olympic Wrestling team trials qualifier James Bryant. He later won a state championship in his senior year at Huron High School (Ann Arbor, Michigan). Once arriving in high school he was coached by Tom Davids and the legendary Ernie Gillum, who wrestled on a national championship team in 1965 for Iowa State University.

Accomplishments[link]

National Team Coaching Assignments

• Head Coach, 2012 US Olympic Freestyle Wrestling Team
• Head Coach, 2004 US Olympic Freestyle Wrestling Team
• Head Coach, 2003 Pan American Games Team
• 2001 National Freestyle Coach of the Year, USA Wrestling
• Head Coach, 2001 World Championship Team
• Assistant Coach, 2001 World Cup Team
• Coaching Staff, 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games
• Head Coach, 2000 World Cup Team
• Coach, 2000 Pan American Championships
• Head Coach, 2000 NCAA International All-Star Team
• Assistant Coach, 1999 NCAA International All-Star Team
• Head Coach, 1998 World Cup Team Champions

Professional Coaching Career

• Assistant Coach, Bloomsburg University (1990-1992)
• Assistant Coach, Arizona State University (1993-1998)
• Assistant Coach, West Virginia University (1998-2005)
• Head Coach, Penn Quakers (2005–2008)
• Head Coach, USA National Freestyle Wrestling Team (2008-present)

Wrestling Accomplishments

• Winner of FILA's “World’s Most Technical Wrestler” – 1 of 3 American’s (John Smith and Chris Campbell)
• 1991 World Champion
• 1992 Olympic Silver Medalist
• Four time World Cup Champion
• Six time National Champion
• Pan American Games Gold Medalist
• Goodwill Games Gold Medalist
• 1995 World Bronze Medalist
• NCAA Division I National Team Champions member, 1988
• NCAA Division I National Team Runner Ups member, 1989, 1990
• World Championships Team Champions, member, 1993 and 1995
• Eight time World and Olympic Team Member
• Espoir National Champion and Outstanding Wrestler
• Espoir World Silver Medalist
• NCAA Finalist and three time NCAA All-American
• Three time PAC 10 Champion
• Midlands Champion
• Distinguished Member, National Wrestling Hall of Fame
• Member, Arizona State University Hall of Fame
• Member, Michigan Wrestling Hall of Fame

References[link]

• sports-reference

External links[link]

• Zeke Jones Website
• twitter @zekejones

Olympic medalist
Medal record
Competitor for  Russia
Men's Freestyle Wrestling
Olympic Games
Gold	Atlanta 1996	74 kg freestyle
Gold	Athens 2004	74 kg freestyle
Gold	Beijing 2008	74 kg freestyle
World Championships
Gold	Atlanta 1995	74 kg freestyle
Gold	Krasnojarsk 1997	76 kg freestyle
Gold	Tehran 1998	76 kg freestyle
Gold	Sofia 2001	76 kg freestyle
Gold	New York 2003	74 kg freestyle
Gold	Budapest 2005	74 kg freestyle
European Championships
Gold	Budapest 1996	74 kg freestyle
Gold	Warsaw 1997	76 kg freestyle
Gold	Bratislava 1998	85 kg freestyle
Gold	Budapest 2000	76 kg freestyle
Gold	Budapest 2001	76 kg freestyle
Gold	Moscow 2006	74 kg freestyle

Buvaisar Hamidovich Saitiev, also spelled Buvaysar Hamidovich Saytiev, (Russian: Бувайсар Хамидович Сайтиев, Chechen: Сайт КIант Бувайса) (born on March 11, 1975 in Khasavyurt, Dagestan, Russia) is a Russian wrestler of Chechen heritage, who has won nine world-level gold medals in freestyle wrestling.

Life[link]

In 1992, Buvaisar left his hometown of Khasavyurt, Dagestan in order to train at a prestigious wrestling center in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. Soon after graduating from the training center, Saitiev began his quest to represent Russia on the world stage. Buvaisar has been decorated with the Order of Friendship by the Russian president.

Buvaisar's life philosophy has been heavily influenced by Nobel Prize-winning poet Boris Pasternak. Saitiev repeats the following poem before every match, and according to Buvaisar, the poem has defined his life both inside and outside of wrestling:^[1]

To be the famous isn’t attractive,
Not this could ever elevate,
You needn’t to make your archive active,
You needn’t your scripts to be all saved. Self-offering’s aimed by creation,
But ballyhoo or cheap success,
It is a shame, if worthless persons
Are talks of towns’ populace.

— Boris Pasternak, My Sister Life

Быть знаменитым некрасиво.
Не это подымает ввысь.
Не надо заводить архива,
Над рукописями трястись. Цель творчества самоотдача,
А не шумиха, не успех.
Позорно ничего не знача,
Быть притчей на устах у всех.

— Борис Пастернак, Сестра моя — жизнь

Wrestling career[link]

Saitiev has won nine world-level gold medals. He is a six-time world champion and a three-time Olympic champion. His senior-level international career began in 1995 and, to date, has continued on through the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China. In thirteen years, he's entered eleven world championship tournaments, won nine world championship tournaments, and lost only two bouts.

1995[link]

• Saitiev won a world gold medal at 74 kg in Atlanta, Georgia.

1996[link]

• Saitiev won a gold medal at 74 kg at the European Championships, held in Budapest, Hungary.
• Saitiev won an Olympic gold medal at 74 kg in Atlanta, Georgia. He won the title after defeating Park Jang-Soon of South Korea in the championship match by a score of 5-0.
• Saitiev was named the Freestyle Wrestler of the Year by the International Wrestling Federation

1997[link]

• Saitiev won a gold medal at 76 kg at the European Championships, held in Warsaw, Poland.
• Saitiev won a world gold medal at 76 kg in Krasnojarsk, Russia.

1998[link]

• Saitiev won a gold medal at 85 kg at the European Championships, held in Bratislava, Slovakia.
• Saitiev won a world gold medal at 76 kg in Tehran, Iran.
• Saitiev was named the Freestyle Wrestler of the Year by the International Wrestling Federation

1999[link]

• Saitiev did not compete in the world championships. Instead, Russia was represented by Saitiev's brother Adam Saitiev at 76 kg. Adam Saitiev won the gold.

2000[link]

• Saitiev won a gold medal at 76 kg at the European Championships, held in Budapest, Hungary.
• Saitiev placed silver at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia after being upset by American Brandon Slay. Slay was eventually awarded the gold medal at 76 kg.

I let this person take me down in the second round. I didn't even know who he was. I had to look him up in the Internet. I think he shouldn't have been in the Olympics at all, he was like a plane fly-by, he flew in, flew out, and he didn't have much to offer. Maybe they fed him something. He appeared, caused havoc and disappeared. Kind of like that Rulon Gardner, but Rulon at least fights there somewhere. That Slay guy disappeared for good. He's not even worth my thoughts. If somebody asks me a question about him only then do I remember, otherwise he doesn't exist for me."

— Buvaisar Saitiev, The Silent Gladiators^[2]

2001[link]

• Saitiev won a gold medal at 76 kg at the European Championships, held in Budapest, Hungary.
• Saitiev won a world gold medal at 76 kg in Sofia, Bulgaria.

2002[link]

• Saitiev did not compete at the world championships in 2002. He lost to Magomed Isagadjiev at the 2002 Russian Nationals. Isagadjiev went on the win a silver medal at the world championships.

2003[link]

• Saitiev won a world gold medal at 74 kg in New York, New York.

2004[link]

• Saitiev won an Olympic gold medal at 74 kg at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece by defeating Kazakh Gennadiy Laliyev by a score of 7-0.^[3]

2005[link]

• Saitiev won a world gold medal at 74 kg in Budapest, Hungary.

2006[link]

• Saitiev won a gold medal at 74 kg at the European Championships, held in Moscow, Russia.
• Saitiev wrestled at the world championships with a rib injury and did not place. He lost to Mihail Ganev of Bulgaria, Saitiev placed eighth at the tournament, after having suffered only his second loss of his international career.

2007[link]

• Saitiev was beat out for the Russian team by Makhach Murtazaliev, who went on to win the world title. According to media reports, Saitiev's training in 2007 was hampered by a neck injury.^[4]

2008[link]

• Saitiev won an Olympic gold medal at 74 kg at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China by defeating Soslan Tigiev of Uzbekistan.

External links[link]

• CHECHEN FIGHT CLUB
• Buvaysar's official website
• JISS Olympic Result Database information
• Chechnya Free.ru article
• Interview with Buvaisar Saitiev (in Russian)
• Flowrestling Video Interview with Saitiev after 2008 Olympics

References[link]

1. ^ The Silent Gladiators, p. 237
2. ^ http://www.flowrestling.org/blogs/blogger/discman/3002-silent-gladiators-chapter-xxxi-chechen-fighters
3. ^ http://www.abc.net.au/sport/content/200408/s1187612.htm
4. ^ http://english.newslab.ru/news/213049