In Turkey, the memory of heavy athletics, multiple world champion, Europe and Olympic Games Naima Suleimanoglu is honored.
The Turkish athlete set 46 world records, is a three -time Olympic champion, European champion, a seven -time world -wide champion.
NEM Suleimanoglu was born on January 23, 1967 in the village of Ahatla in a suburbs of Bulgarian Kirjali.
The famous Salt spoke about the beginning of his sports career as follows: “I loved playing sports, swimming. I was engaged in athletics and struggle, when I was 9, my talent opened the Hilmi heavy athletics coach, and I moved to the heavy section of the heavy section athletics. He continued to study with coach Hilmi for 1.5 years in the city of localist. “
At the age of 14, the junior championship in Bulgaria won by Nam Suleimanoglu, he was subsequently first elected to the Turkish national team of heavy athletics.
In 1982, he won the first championship at the World Youth Championship in Brazil and became the “youngest record holder of the world.”
In 1983, the Suleimanoglu won the World Warm Athletics Championship among adults.
From 1983 to 1986, I broke 13 records among young people and 50 records among adults. He was elected a weightlifting of the year in 1984, 1985 and 1986.
by the Suleimanoglu, I broke the world record at the “Champions Tournament” in the United States in 1983 and received the nickname “Mini-Herkules”.
Suleimanoglu beat 9 world and 5 Olympic records at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul.
to the Suleimanoglu is a weightlifter that set a record of 190 kg in a jerk and a push.
October 3, 1988, a photograph of the Turkish athlete was placed on the cover of Time magazine with the heading “Evebody Wins”.
After the next European Athletics Championship, US President Ronald Reagan invited Suleimanoglu to the White House. The athlete abandoned the proposal to accept US citizenship.
At the 2012 Olympic Games, one of the metro stations in London received his name.
In 2018, the metropolitan municipality of Ankara named the street in the Chankaya area by the name “Naima Suleimanoglu.”
The legendary Turkish weightlifter on September 28, 2017 was hospitalized with a diagnosis of liver failure. On October 9, the athlete was also visited by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was personally interested in the state of the bar.
The legends of Turkish sports were gone on November 18 of the same year at the age of 50.