Alperen Berber (born 28 March 2005) is a Turkish

Greco-Roman wrestler Greco-Roman (American English), Graeco-Roman (British English), or classic wrestling (Euro-English) is a style of wrestling that is practiced worldwide. Greco-Roman wrestling was included in the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 and has been i ...

. He won the gold medal at the

2024 European Wrestling Championships The 2024 European Wrestling Championships was held from 12 to 18 February 2024 in Bucharest, Romania. At the 2024 European Championships, in accordance with sanctions imposed following by the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, wrestlers from Russi ...

Career

He became world junior champion in the

2023 World Junior Wrestling Championships The 2023 World Junior Wrestling Championships (U20) was the 45th edition of the World Junior Wrestling Championships and was held in Amman, Jordan between 14 and 20 August 2023. The event was originally scheduled to be held in Warsaw, Poland from ...

held in Amman, Jordan, defeating Iran's Yasin Ali Yazdi 9–1 in the 82 kg final match. He won the silver medal at the

2023 U23 World Wrestling Championships The 2023 U23 World Wrestling Championships was the sixth edition of the U23 World Wrestling Championships of combined events and was held from 23 to 29 October 2023 in Tirana, Albania. United World Wrestling (UWW) authorized some Russian wrestler ...

in Tirana, Albania, losing to independent wrestler Aues Gonibov in the 82 kg final match. He won the gold medal at the

in Bucharest, Romania, in the men's Greco-Roman style 82 kg, defeating Russia's Islam Aliev 4–3 in the final match. He defeated Azerbaijani

Rafig Huseynov Rafig Huseynov (; born 16 May 1988) is an Azerbaijani Greco-Roman wrestler. He defeated Hungarian Péter Bácsi for the gold medal in his respective division at the 2011 European Wrestling Championships in Dortmund, Ge ...

7–1 in the second round, Georgian Gela Bolkvadze 7–1 in the quarterfinals and Aik Mnatsakanian of Bulgaria in the semifinals to reach the final. Alperen Berber won the gold medal at the European U23 Wrestling Championships held in Tirana, Albania, in the men's Greco-Roman style 82 kg category, drawing 1–1 with Romanian Patrik Gordan in the first round and with the advantage of the last point, defeating Baskhan Saidov of Russia, who competed as an Individual Independent, 4–2 in the quarter-finals, Ivan Chmyr of Ukraine 4–1 in the semi-finals and Vladimeri Karchaidze of France 3–1 in the final match.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Berber, Alperen Living people 2005 births Sportspeople from Samsun Turkish male sport wrestlers European Wrestling Championships medalists European Wrestling Champions 21st-century Turkish sportsmen