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Turkish wrestler (1927–2001)

Hasan Gemici
Medal record
Men's Freestyle Wrestling
Representing Turkey
Olympic Games
	1952 Helsinki	52 kg
Mediterranean Games
	1951 Alexandria	52 kg

Hasan Gemici (15 June 1927 – 25 June 2001) was a Turkish sports wrestler and trainer, who won the gold medal in the flyweight class of men's freestyle wrestling at the 1952 Olympics.

He was born in Giresun and died in İzmit, Kocaeli Province of Turkey.

Gemici began wrestling 1949 in İzmit (Kocaeli). He won the gold medal at the 1951 Mediterranean Games in Alexandria, Egypt, before he became Olympic gold medalist in Helsinki, Finland the next year. After retiring from the active sports in 1955, he served as a trainer in his hometown İzmit and later in Romania.

Hasan Gemici died on 25 June 2001 at his home in Izmit following chronic renal failure. He was succeeded by his wife Nezahat Gemici and five children. A sports hall in İzmit is named after him.

Achievements

1951 Mediterranean Games in Alexandria, Egypt - gold (Freestyle Flyweight)
1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland - gold (Freestyle Flyweight)

Notes

Superspor Archived 20 January 2007 at archive.today (in Turkish)

References

Olympics Database
Wrestling File (in Turkish)
Newspaper Hürriyet 25 June 2001 (in Turkish)

External links

Hasan Gemici at the International Wrestling Database
Hasan Gemici at Olympedia

v t e Olympic medalists for Turkey
Gold medalists	Yaşar Erkan Nasuh Akar Gazanfer Bilge Celal Atik Yaşar Doğu Ahmet Kireççi Mehmet Oktav Hasan Gemici Bayram Şit Mithat Bayrak (2 titles) Mustafa Dağıstanlı (2 titles) Hamit Kaplan Müzahir Sille Tevfik Kış Ahmet Bilek Hasan Güngör İsmet Atlı Kazım Ayvaz İsmail Ogan Mahmut Atalay Ahmet Ayık Naim Süleymanoğlu (3 titles) Halil Mutlu (3 titles) Akif Pirim Hamza Yerlikaya (2 titles) Mahmut Demir Hüseyin Özkan Nurcan Taylan Taner Sağır Ramazan Şahin Servet Tazegül Taha Akgül Mete Gazoz Busenaz Sürmeneli
Silver medalists	Halit Balamir Adil Candemir Kenan Olcay Muhlis Tayfur Rıza Doğan İbrahim Zengin İsmail Ogan Hamit Kaplan Hüseyin Akbaş Hasan Güngör Ahmet Ayık Vehbi Akdağ Necmi Gençalp Hakkı Başar Kenan Şimşek Malik Beyleroğlu Şeref Eroğlu Bahri Tanrıkulu Atagün Yalçınkaya Azize Tanrıkulu Nur Tatar Daniyar Ismayilov Rıza Kayaalp Selim Yaşar Buse Naz Çakıroğlu (2 titles) Eray Şamdan Şevval İlayda Tarhan Yusuf Dikeç Hatice Akbaş
Bronze medalists	Ahmet Kireççi Halil Kaya Ruhi Sarıalp Adil Atan Dursun Ali Eğribaş Hüseyin Akbaş Hamit Kaplan Eyüp Can Turgut Aykaç Ayhan Taşkın Ali Kayalı Akif Pirim Hamide Bıkçın Adem Bereket Sedat Artuç Reyhan Arabacıoğlu Mehmet Özal Aydın Polatçı Yakup Kılıç Servet Tazegül Nazmi Avluca Rıza Kayaalp (2 titles) Yasmani Copello Cenk İldem Soner Demirtaş Nur Tatar Hakan Reçber Hatice Kübra İlgün Yasemin Adar Ferhat Arıcan Taha Akgül (2 titles) Ali Sofuoğlu Merve Çoban Uğur Aktaş Abdullah Yıldırmış Mete Gazoz Ulaş Tümer Buse Tosun Çavuşoğlu Esra Yıldız Nafia Kuş

v t e Olympic Champions in freestyle flyweight
1904: George Mehnert (USA) 1948: Lennart Viitala (FIN) 1952: Hasan Gemici (TUR) 1956: Mirian Tsalkalamanidze (URS) 1960: Ahmet Bilek (TUR) 1964: Yoshikatsu Yoshida (JPN) 1968: Shigeo Nakata (JPN) 1972: Kiyomi Kato (JPN) 1976: Yuji Takada (JPN) 1980: Anatoly Beloglazov (URS) 1984: Šaban Trstena (YUG) 1988: Mitsuru Sato (JPN) 1992: Ri Hak-son (PRK) 1996: Valentin Yordanov (BUL) 2000: Namig Abdullayev (AZE)
1904: 52.16 kg 1948–1996: 52 kg 2000: 54 kg