1998 Yasar Dogu Tournament
# 1998 Yasar Dogu Tournament

The Yasar Dogu Tournament 1998, was a wrestling event held in Ankara, Turkey between 27 February and 1 March 1998. This tournament was held as 26th.

This international tournament includes competition includes competition in men's freestyle wrestling. This ranking tournament was held in honor of the two time Olympic Champion, Yaşar Doğu.

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Turkey | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 2 | United States | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | Russia | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | Iran | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | Kazakhstan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Mongolia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Hungary | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | Poland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (8 entries) | Totals (8 entries) | 8 | 8 | 8 | 24 |

## Medal overview

### Men's freestyle

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| 54 kg | Mevlana Kulaç Turkey | Maulon Mamirov Kazakhstan | Leonid Thauthonov Russia |
| 58 kg | Harun Doğan Turkey | Purevbaatar Oyunbuleg Mongolia | Ali Ganjabi Iran |
| 63 kg | Cary Kolat United States | Alexander Soloviev Russia | Takahiro Wada Japan |
| 69 kg | Terry Steiner United States | Ourusov Taimazov Russia | Yüksel Şanlı Turkey |
| 76 kg | Nuri Zengin Turkey | Samil Aliev Russia | Péter Árpád Hungary |
| 85 kg | Ali Özen Turkey | Abbas Mejidi Iran | Koupninkov Russia |
| 97 kg | Sait Murtazaaliev Russia | Kenan Şimşek Turkey | Marek Garmulovicz Poland |
| 125 kg | Aydın Polatçı Turkey | Tom Erikson United States | Alexander Kovalevski Russia |

## Participating nations

* Turkey
* Russia
* United States
* Iran
* Mongolia
* Kazakhstan
* Japan
* Hungary
* Poland
* Lithuania
* Slovakia
* Georgia
* Ukraine
