Abstract
The aim of this study is to evaluate the achievements of Turkish Wrestling National Teams in the World Cup Free and Greco-Roman Wrestling Championships held in Istanbul in 1956. For this purpose, document analysis method, one of the qualitative research methods, was used. In order to reach the findings, a detailed literature search was made for the World Cup held in Istanbul in 1956 and content analysis was made on the data obtained. According to the results of the research, Turkish Free Wrestling National Team athletes won four gold, two silver and two bronze medals and collected 42 points, leaving behind the Russian wrestling team, which was one of the strongest teams of the period, and ranked first in a team. Turkish Greco-Roman Wrestling National Team athletes, on the other hand, won two gold, three silver and one bronze medals and collected 36.5 points and achieved a significant success as a team. These achievements of Turkish wrestling national teams are considered to be extremely important both in Turkish wrestling history and in the history of world wrestling in terms of the fact that the World Cup Wrestling Championship was first held in Istanbul in 1956 and the successes achieved in such an organization for the first time. This organization was also an organization where Turkish wrestlers Hüseyin Akbaş and Mustafa Dağıstanlı succeeded in winning the gold medal in the World Cup held in Istanbul in 1956 after the World Free Wrestling Championship in Tokyo in 1954.