Seven years have been taking place since the death of the legend of heavy athletics, multiple world champion, Europe and the Olympic Games Naima Suleimanoglu.
Suleimanoglu entered his name in gold letters into the history of world and Turkish heavy athletics.
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 continued to study with a coach Hilmi for 1.5 years in the city of local. “
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.
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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.
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by the Suleimanoglu, I broke the world record at the record holder tournament in the United States in 1983 and received the nickname “Pocket-Herkules”.
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Suleimanoglu could not participate in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, as Bulgaria supported the decision of the former Soviet Union on Boycot.
In 1984, by a Suleimanoglu, he went down in history as a second weightlifter, which raised a weight three times the weight of his own weight.
October 3, 1988, a photograph of the Turkish athlete was placed on the cover of Time magazine with the heading “Evebody Wins”.
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changed the name, fled to Turkey
After the Bulgarian government forbade the use of Turkish names, the barlife forced to change the name to Naum Shalamanov.
In December 1986, at competitions in Melbourne, he did not return to the location of the Bulgarian national team and fled to Turkey, where he received citizenship, then he returned the original version of the name and surname with Naum Shalamanov on Soema Suleimanoglu.
The arrival in Turkey, which the athlete called the “flight”, he explained the desire to put an end to the persecution of the Turks living in Bulgaria and tell the whole world that ethnic Turks were subjected to assimilation in Bulgaria in those years.