Adil Atan ( Abkhaz: name Twanba, 1 January 1929 – 18 April 1989) was a Turkish

wrestler Wrestling is a martial art, combat sport, and form of entertainment that involves grappling with an opponent and striving to obtain a position of advantage through different throws or techniques, within a given ruleset. Wrestling involves diffe ...

. He was born in

Adapazarı Adapazarı () is a municipality and the capital Districts of Turkey, district of Sakarya Province, Turkey. Its area is 324 km2, and its population 281,489 (2022). It covers the central and northern part of the agglomeration of Adapazarı and t ...

in the

Sakarya Province Sakarya () is a province and metropolitan municipality in Turkey, located on the coast of the Black Sea. Its area is , and its population is 1,080,080 (2022). The Sakarya River creates a webbing of estuaries in the province, which is in the Ma ...

. He was Olympic bronze medalist in

Freestyle wrestling Freestyle wrestling is a style of wrestling. It is one of two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic Games, along with Greco-Roman wrestling, Greco-Roman. scholastic wrestling, High school wrestling and men's collegiate wrestling in the U ...

in 1952, and also competed at the 1956 Olympics.

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* 1929 births 1989 deaths Turkish people of Abkhazian descent Sportspeople from Adapazarı Olympic wrestlers for Turkey Wrestlers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1956 Summer Olympics Turkish male sport wrestlers Olympic bronze medalists for Turkey Olympic medalists in wrestling Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics Road incident deaths in Turkey 20th-century Turkish sportsmen {{Turkey-wrestling-bio-stub