1997 Yasar Dogu Tournament

Yasar Dogu 1997
Host city	Ankara, Turkey
Dates	14–16 February 1997
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The Yasar Dogu Tournament 1997, was a wrestling event held in Ankara, Turkey between 14 and 16 February 1997. This tournament was held as 25th. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

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. ^[4]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Turkey	4	3	4	11
2	United States	4	1	1	6
3	Russia	0	2	1	3
4	Mongolia	0	1	0	1
	Ukraine	0	1	0	1
6	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		8	8	8	24

Medal overview

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
54 kg	Sammie Henson   United States	Zuunbayan Tumendemberel   Mongolia	Murad Ramazanov   Russia
58 kg	Harun Doğan   Turkey	İsmail Zurnacı   Turkey	Fikret Aker   Turkey
63 kg	Shawn Charles   United States	Andre Fokovlev   Russia	Muharrem Demireğen   Turkey
69 kg	Yüksel Şanlı   Turkey	John Guria   United States	Adem Kaya   Turkey
76 kg	Nuri Zengin   Turkey	Sedat Dumlu   Turkey	Steve Marianetti   United States
85 kg	Kevin Jackson   United States	Eldar Assanov   Ukraine	Ali Rıza Keser   Turkey
97 kg	Melvin Douglas   United States	Aleksandr Shemalov   Russia	Islam Bairamukov   Kazakhstan
125 kg	Zekeriya Güçlü   Turkey	Aydın Polatçı   Turkey	Zsolt Gombos   Hungary

Participating nations

•   Turkey
•   Russia
•   United States
•   Ukraine
•   Mongolia
•   Kazakhstan
•   Hungary
•   Poland
•   Georgia
•   Switzerland
•   Italy
•   China
•   France
•   Uzbekistan
•   Syria
•   Tunisia
• Macedonia

References

1. "Athletes & Results". uww.org. Retrieved 2022-02-02.
2. "1997 y Doğu tur Yalçın özdemir-- Suriye#wrestling #güreş". YouTube .
3. "1997 Yaşar Doğu tur 58 kg Harun Doğan Geo MPG #wrestling #güreş". YouTube .
4. "guresdosyasi". guresdosyasi.com. Retrieved 2022-02-02.