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Place of Birth: Rize, Turkey
About Kazım Ayvaz
- Kazim Ayvaz (March 10, 1938 in Rize, Turkey), is a former Turkish Olympic medalist sports wrestler in the Lightweight class and a trainer.
- He won the gold medal in Men's Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1964 Olympics and became twice World champion. He was born 1938 in Rize of north-eastern Turkey.
- He began wrestling 1953 at his age of 15 in the "Istanbul Güres Ihtisas Kulübü", a club in Fatih, Istanbul specialized in wrestling. He won the gold medal at the 1958 World Wrestling Championships in Budapest in 73 kg.
- Greco-Roman wrestling, ahead of silver medalist Grigory Gamarnik of the USSR and bronze medalist Valeriu Bularca of Romania. Representing his country in Greco-Roman style wrestling, he participated at three consecutive Olympics in 1960, 1964 and 1968, however was successful only in Tokyo.
- From 1964 on, Kazim Ayvaz could not repeat his victorious matches.
- He retired from the active sports in 1969 and served from then on as a trainer in Sweden, where he emigrated after the 1968 Olympics.He is married and has three children.
- Kazim Ayvaz lives in Sweden.
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