1998 Yasar Dogu Tournament

Yasar Dogu 1998
Host city	Ankara, Turkey
Dates	27 February – 1 March 1998

The Yasar Dogu Tournament 1998, was a wrestling event held in Ankara, Turkey between 27 February and 1 March 1998. This tournament was held as 26th.^[1][2][3][4]

This international tournament includes competition includes competition in men's freestyle wrestling. This ranking tournament was held in honor of the two time Olympic Champion, Yaşar Doğu.^[5]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Turkey	5	1	1	7
2	United States	2	1	1	4
3	Russia	1	3	3	7
4	Iran	0	1	1	2
5	Kazakhstan	0	1	0	1
	Mongolia	0	1	0	1
7	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		8	8	8	24

Medal overview

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
54 kg	Mevlana Kulaç Turkey	Maulon Mamirov Kazakhstan	Leonid Thauthonov Russia
58 kg	Harun Doğan Turkey	Purevbaatar Oyunbuleg Mongolia	Ali Ganjabi Iran
63 kg	Cary Kolat United States	Alexander Soloviev Russia	Takahiro Wada Japan
69 kg	Terry Steiner United States	Ourusov Taimazov Russia	Yüksel Şanlı Turkey
76 kg	Nuri Zengin Turkey	Samil Aliev Russia	Péter Árpád Hungary
85 kg	Ali Özen Turkey	Abbas Mejidi Iran	Koupninkov Russia
97 kg	Sait Murtazaaliev Russia	Kenan Şimşek Turkey	Marek Garmulovicz Poland
125 kg	Aydın Polatçı Turkey	Tom Erikson United States	Alexander Kovalevski Russia

Participating nations

•  Turkey
•  Russia
•  United States
•  Iran
•  Mongolia
•  Kazakhstan
•  Japan
•  Hungary
•  Poland
•  Lithuania
•  Slovakia
•  Georgia
•  Ukraine

References

1. "Athletes & Results". uww.org. Retrieved 2022-02-02.
2. "1998 Yaşar Doğu tur 63 gürsel uzunca-- Kzk-#wrestling #güreş" – via www.youtube.com.
3. "1903 1998 Yaşar Doğu tur 69 kg Adem Kaya JPN" – via www.youtube.com.
4. "Uluslararasi Yasar Dogu Gures Turnuvasi Haberleri - Son Dakika Uluslararasi Yasar Dogu Gures Turnuvasi Haberi".
5. "guresdosyasi". guresdosyasi.com. Retrieved 2022-02-02.