Vehbi Akdağ
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| Nationality |  Turkey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 January 1949 Tokat,Turkey[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 23 June 2020(aged 71)[2] Tokat,Turkey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Vehbi Akdağ(1 January 1949 – 23 June 2020) was a Turkishwrestlerand Olympic silver medalist inFreestyle wrestling.[3]
Akdağ competed at the1972 Summer OlympicsinMunichwhere he received a silver medal in featherweight class inFreestyle wrestling[4][5]
References
[edit]- ^Mallon, Bill; Evans, Hilary."Vehbi Akdağ".Olympedia.Retrieved27 June2020.
- ^Tarihi, Giriş."Eski milli güreşçi Vehbi Akdağ toprağa verildi! Vehbi Akdağ kimdir?".Ahaber.tr(in Turkish).Retrieved27 June2020.
- ^"Vehbi Akdağ".Olympedia.Retrieved27 June2020.
- ^"1972 Summer Olympics – München, Germany – Wrestling"Archived2008-09-19 at theWayback MachinedatabaseOlympics(Retrieved on 9 January 2009)
- ^"Profile: Vehbi Akdağ".sports-reference. Archived fromthe originalon 18 April 2020.Retrieved9 January2009.
External links
[edit]- Vehbi Akdağat the International Wrestling Database
- Vehbi AkdağatOlympics
- Vehbi AkdağatOlympedia
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Categories:
- 1949 births
- 2020 deaths
- Olympic wrestlers for Turkey
- Wrestlers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Wrestlers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Wrestlers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Turkish male sport wrestlers
- Olympic silver medalists for Turkey
- Olympic medalists in wrestling
- World Wrestling Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- 20th-century Turkish sportsmen
- 21st-century Turkish sportspeople
- Sportspeople from Tokat
- Turkish Olympic medalist stubs
- Turkish sport wrestler stubs