Rıza Yıldırım (born May 6, 1987) is a European champion
Turkish wrestler
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competing in the 97 kg division of
freestyle wrestling
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. He is a member of
Bursa Büyükşehir Belediyesi Spor Kulübü.
Yıldırım won the gold medal in the 96 kg division at the
2013 Mediterranean Games
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in
Mersin
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, Turkey.
He became champion at the
2017 European Wrestling Championships
The 2017 European Wrestling Championships was held in Novi Sad, Serbia, from 2 to 7 May 2017. The winner of the silver medal in the 97 kg category, Anzor Boltukayev from Russia, was disqualified and deprived of the medal due to doping.https://un ...
held in
Novi Sad
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, Serbia.
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Living people
1987 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
Turkish male sport wrestlers
Bursa Büyükşehir Belediyesi S.K. sportspeople
Competitors at the 2013 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Turkey
European champions for Turkey
Mediterranean Games medalists in wrestling
European Wrestling Championships medalists
European Wrestling Champions
21st-century Turkish sportsmen