Ergüder_Bekişdamat
Ergüder Bekişdamat
Turkish wrestler (born 1969)
Ergüder Bekişdamat (born 1 January 1969) is a Turkish wrestler competing in the -57 kg division of the Greco-Roman style.
Bekişdamat took part at the World Wrestling Championships in 1991 in Bulgaria, 1997 in Poland and 1998 in Sweden placing respectively 10th, 15th and 11th.[1] He competed in the men's Greco-Roman 57 kg at the 1992 Summer Olympics.[2] He won the bronze medal in the -58 kg division at the 1997 European Wrestling Championships in Kouvola, Finland.[3]
In 2010, he was appointed coach of the Diyanet Youth Sports Club founded in Izmir.[4] Bekişdamat served as the coach of the Turkey cadet national wrestling team, which participated at the 2011 European Cadets Greco-Roman Wrestling Championships in Poland.[5]
He became twice gold medalist at the FILA World Veterans Wrestling Championships held in 2015 at Athens, Greece and in 2016 at Helsinki, Finland.[6]