Mehmet Akif Pirim

Mehmet Akif Pirim (September 17, 1968, Rize, Turkey), is a former Turkish Olympic medalist sports wrestler in the Featherweight class (62 kg), and currently a trainer. He won the gold medal at the 1992 Olympics in Men's Greco-Roman wrestling and the bronze medal at the 1996 Olympics.

Mehmet Akif Pirim
Medal record
Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling
Olympic Games
1996 Atlanta 62 kg
1992 Barcelona 62 kg
World Championships
1991 Varna62 kg
Mediterranean Games
1997 Bari 63 kg
1993 Languedoc-Roussillon 62 kg
1991 Athens 62 kg
Military World Games
1995 Rome 62 kg

Born on September 17, 1968, in the Black Sea city of Rize, he began sports wrestling 1986 in Rize Çaykur Sports Club and continued in the clubs Halkbankası, TMO and TEDAŞ Clubs.

Akif Pirim won the silver medal at the World Championships and the gold medal three times at the Mediterranean Games and also at the first Military World Games.

As he was not qualified for the Turkish national team in 1999, Akif Pirim was offered the citizenship of Azerbaijan, which he accepted.[1] He participated at the 1999 World Championships held in Athens, Greece, for Azerbaijan, however without success.[2]

He is currently the head coach of the Turkish national team of Greco-Roman style wrestling.[3]

Achievements

References
  1. Newspaper Hürriyet Archived 2003-11-29 at archive.today (in Turkish)
  2. International Wrestling Database
  3. Newspaper Zaman (in Turkish)
  4. "Uni Net". Archived from the original on 2007-07-17. Retrieved 2007-02-17.


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