Remzi Musaoğlu

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Remzi Musaoğlu
Personal information
NationalityTurkish
Born (1965-01-25) 25 January 1965 (age 59)
Kardzhali, Bulgaria
Sport
Sport Wrestling

Remzi Musaoğlu (born 25 January 1965) is a wrestler from Bulgaria who has wrestled for both: Bulgaria and Turkey. He wrestled only in the bantamweight division (57 kg).

Remzi Musaoğlu won a silver medal at the 1984 Espoir (promising youth) European Championship under the name of Remzi Musov in the boy's freestyle 52 kg. [1] [2] At the 1984 Junior European Championship Remzi Musov held the gold medal in the boy's freestyle 56 kg. [3]

Domestically Remzi Musov beat a strongest wrestlers, such as the three-time European champion and the World Championships medalist Stefan Ivanov, the 1986 European champion and the World Championships medalist Georgi Kalchev, the 1986 world super championship's winner Alben Kumbarov and the 1984 Espoir European champion Rumen Pavlov. He won Bulgarian champion title in 1987, 1988, 1989. [4]

He competed in the men's freestyle 57 kg at the 1988 Summer Olympics [5] under the name of Valentin Ivanov (Bulgaria). [6] [7]

In 1990 he emigrated to Turkey and was immediately one of the best Turkish freestyle wrestlers in the bantamweight division after defeating a strong local wrestlers, including Ahmet Ak (the 1987 World Championships medalist, the 1989 European champion, the 1990 World Cup champion) in the training and competition. At the 1990 Grand Prix of Germany he won the first international medal for Turkey, Remzi Musaoğlu became the 1990 Grand Prix of Germany bronze medalist (he defeated Alejandro Puerto).

At the 1991 Yasar Dogu Tournament Remzi Musaoğlu won the gold medal, he beat Metin Topaktaş and Ahmet Ak.

Already in 1991, he became the European vice-champion in Stuttgart, where he was obviously even cheated out of the European title here. In the German professional magazine Der Ringer, No. 5/1991, page 13, it is said about this: "To make a long story short: Soviet man Bagavdin Umakhanov received the title as a gift because Remzi Musaoğlu of Turkey was deprived of several points by an incompetent referee (in the final)."

He lost at the 1992 European Championship to Bagavdin Umakhanov of CIS in the finals with a score of 5-3, the points were counted correctly.

He competed in the men's freestyle 57 kg at the 1992 Summer Olympics [8] (Turkey). Remzi Musaoğlu defeated Kendall Cross of USA 7–3 in the 4-th match.

At the 1993 European Championships Remzi Musaoğlu held the gold medal, he defeated the 1991 World Champion and the 1992 Olympic Games silver medalist Sergey Smal of Belarus in the finals with the score of 5-3. [9]

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