Turkish freestyle wrestler

Men's freestyle wrestlingRepresenting :TurkeyOlympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro 125 kg 2020 Tokyo 125 kgWorld Championships2015 Las Vegas 125 kg2014 Tashkent125 kg2019 Nur-Sultan125 kg2017 Paris125 kg2021 Oslo125 kg2013 Budapest120 kgEuropean Championships2022 Budapest125 kg2021 Warsaw125 kg2019 Bucharest125 kg2018 Kaspiysk125 kg2017 Novi Sad125 kg2014 Vantaa125 kg2013 Tbilisi120 kg2012 Belgrade120 kgEuropean Games2015 Baku 125 kg Military World Games 2019 Wuhan 125 kgMediterranean Games 2013 Mersin120 kgYasar Dogu Tournament2022 Istanbul125 kg2019 Istanbul125 kg2016 Istanbul125 kg2015 Istanbul125 kg2014 Istanbul125 kg2013 Ankara120 kg2012 Ankara120 kg2011 Istanbul120 kg Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin 2019 Krasnoyarsk125 kgCerro Pelado International 2018 La Habana125 kgUniversiade2013 Kazan120 kgWorld University Championship 2012 Kuortane120 kgWorld Junior Championships2010 Budapest120 kg

Taha Akgül (born November 22, 1990 in Sivas, Turkey) is an Olympic, World and European champion Turkish freestyle wrestler competing in the 125:kg division. He is a graduate of the Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University Physical Education and Sports Academy and completed his master's degree at Sivas *huriyet University.

Contents

• 1 Wrestling career
• 2 Major results
• 3 Wrestling record
• 4 See also
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Wrestling career

Akgül took up wrestling in 2003 following his father and brother. He won the gold medal at the 40th Yaşar Doğu International Wrestling Tournament held in 2012. At the 2012 European Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia, Taha Akgül became champion in his weight category. He is now considered the best active wrestler with Abdulrashid Sadulaev.

He qualified for the 2012 Olympics. He did not advance to quarterfinal after losing to Bilyal Makhov from Russia in the round of 16. At the 2012 World University Wrestling Championships held in Kuortane, Finland, he became gold medallist in his weight cl*.

Taha Akgül defended his European champion *le at the 2013 European Wrestling Championships held in Tbilisi, Georgia. He won the bronze medal at the 2013 World Wrestling Championships in Budapest, Hungary.

In 2014 and 2015 he won the world *le in the 125:kg division. In 2014 he named as the Best Wrestler of the Year by the Turkish Wrestling Federation. He won a gold medal at the 2016 Olympics, defeating Komeil Ghasemi in the final.

Taha Akgul won the gold medal at the 2017 European Wrestling Championships in Serbia on Friday.

World Championships 2017, Paris: It was a dramatic gold medal match. Akgul scored the first point on the counter in less than one minute into the game. The Turkish international continued to dominate the first period by taking a four-point lead. But the Georgian wrestler turned the tables in his favour in the dying seconds of the first half. Within one minute he covered the four-point lead by two successive takedowns, levelling the score at 4-4.In the second half, both the wrestlers went into attacking mode. With a series of attacks, the wrestlers were drawn at 8-8. But in the final 10 seconds of the bout, Petriashvili executed a two-pointer move and became the world champion.

Taha Akgul won gold medals on Sunday at the European Wrestling Championships held in Kaspiysk in Russia’s northern Caucasus Republic of Dagestan. He won against Georgian wrestler Geno Petriashvili 2-1 to become the European champion in the 125-kilogram category.

Taha Akgul comes second in World Wrestling C'ships. Akgul wins silver medal in World Wrestling Championships, losing to Georgia's Petriashvili in men's freestyle final.

Taha Akgül on April 22 won gold in the 2021 European Championships in Warsaw. Akgül secured his eighth European *le as the 30-year-old beat his Russian opponent Sergei Kozyrev via disqualification (9-2) in the men's freestyle 125-kilogram final. He had previously won gold in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics Games. Speaking to Anadolu Agency (AA) about his latest success, Akgül said winning the tournament after being forced to a nearly two-year hiatus due to injury was a great morale boost for him. “I won my 8th European *le after defeating my rivals with overwhelming superiority. It was really important for me to win a gold medal, considering I joined straight to European Championships after my 1.5-year break. And the Olympics is so close,” Akgül said, adding that he would be aiming for a second Olympic gold medal at Tokyo 2020.

In 2022, he won the gold medal in his event at the Yasar Dogu Tournament held in Istanbul, Turkey.He won the gold medal in the men's 125:kg event at the 2022 European Wrestling Championships held in Budapest, Hungary. Akgül claimed a 5–2 victory over Geno Petriashvili from Georgia in the 125:kg freestyle division in Hungary's capital. Taha Akgul won his ninth gold medal in the 125 kg freestyle division.

Major results

Wrestling record

See also

• Rıza Kayaalp

References

External links

• Taha Akgül at United World Wrestling
• Taha Akgül at Olympics.com
• Taha Akgül at Olympedia