Mehmet Oktav

Olympic medal record
Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling
	1948 London	Featherweight

Mehmet Oktav (1917 in Istanbul, Turkey – 1996) was a Turkish sports wrestler, who became Olympic gold medalist for Turkey in the Featherweight class of Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling in 1948.

He began his sports career as a football player in 1942, switched over, however, to wrestling afterwards. He won the gold medal in the 1948 Olympics in 62 kg class as the second Turkish wrestler after Yaşar Erkan. Before retiring in 1953, he competed 13 times in the national team. Mehmet Oktav served then in some sports clubs and in the national team 17 years long as a trainer.

References

Olympics Database
Who is who (Turkish)

Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman featherweight

1912 Kaarlo Koskelo (FIN) 1920 Oskari Friman (FIN) 1924 Kalle Anttila (FIN) 1928 Voldemar Väli (EST) 1932 Giovanni Gozzi (ITA) 1936 Yaşar Erkan (TUR) 1948 Mehmet Oktav (TUR) 1952 Yakiv Punkin (URS) 1956 Rauno Mäkinen (FIN) 1960 Müzahir Sille (TUR) 1964 Imre Polyák (HUN) 1968 Roman Rurua (URS) 1972 Georgi Markov (URS) 1976 Kazimierz Lipień (POL) 1980 Stelios Mygiakis (GRE) 1984 Kim Weon-kee (KOR) 1988 Kamandar Madzhidov (URS) 1992 Mehmet Akif Pirim (TUR) 1996 Włodzimierz Zawadzki (POL) 2000 Varteres Samurgashev (RUS) 2004 Jung Ji-hyun (KOR) 2008 Islambek Albiev (RUS) 2012 Omid Norouzi (IRI)

−60 kg (1912–1920) −62 kg (1924–1928) −61 kg (1932–1960) −63 kg (1964–1968) −62 kg (1972–1996) −63 kg (2000) −60 kg (2004–2012)

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