The U23 Turkish Freestyle
Wrestling Championship, hosted by Hitit University and sponsored by Çorum
Municipality, was opened with a ceremony.
The ceremony held at Hitit
University 15 July Sports Complex was attended by our Rector Prof. Dr. Ali
Osman Öztürk, Deputy Mayor of Çorum İsmail Yağbat, President of Turkish
Wrestling Federation Şeref Eroğlu, Çorum Provincial Director of Youth and
Sports Haşim Eğer, athletes and many sports fans attended.
Provincial Director of Youth and
Sports, Haşim Eğer, in his speech at the ceremony, expressed his satisfaction
that this important championship was held in Çorum.
Stating that they carried out the
first activity of 2022 in Çorum, Eğer said, “First of all, we would like to
thank the Federation President, on behalf of the Çorum sports community, who
deemed this competition worthy of our city. We will host 12 semi-finals and
Turkish championships in our city until May.”
Eğer thanked Hitit University
Rector Prof. Dr. Öztürk for opening its doors to wrestlers, conveying his
wishes of success to the athletes participating in the competitions.
Turkish Wrestling Federation
President Eroğlu said that the championship was held in Çorum upon the proposal
of Çorum Municipality.
Eroğlu said, “As the wrestling
federation, we attach great importance to such organizations so that the future
European, World and Olympic champions come out of these mats, so that wrestling
can be popularized among the youth.”
Eroğlu, who also thanked the
Çorum Municipality, which contributed to the organization of the U23 Turkey
Championship, and the Hitit University Rectorate, which opened its doors to
wrestlers, said, “By the way, we had a bad accident on Sunday. We lost our
brother İbrahim Halil Kay. Today we hung his picture in our living room to keep
his memory alive. His place is in heaven, may his soul rest in peace. He was
truly our wrestling ambassador in the Southeast. We will not forget him, we
will not make him forget," he said.
Our Rector Prof. Dr. Ali Osman
Öztürk also pointed out the importance of universities to act with the
consciousness of an institution that is in harmony with the values of the
society and raises them, as well as research, development and education
activities.
Expressing his happiness for
hosting such an important organization as the U23 Turkey Championship as Hitit
University, Prof. Dr. Ozturk said:
“I would like to express my
gratitude to our Federation President who provided such a beautiful
organization and paved the way for us, our esteemed Governor and related
institutions, and our Mayor of Çorum, who never left him alone in this matter.
What does this indicate? This is the union that underlines the place and
importance of wrestling and wrestling in Turkish sports. This is an indication
of Çorum's love for wrestling. It is very important for Hitit University to
show the determination and determination of combining our values and traditions
with the expertise and values of higher education, which is integrated with its
city, in order to create an environment worthy of our young people who sweat on
these mats in order to wave our crescent and star flag in the world.”
Prof. Dr. Öztürk: “We have
demonstrated our intention to make wrestling the specialty of our Faculty of Sports
Sciences”
Rector Prof. Dr. Öztürk stated
that as a university, they are working to give the necessary support to the
Turkish ancestral sport, wrestling, and said:
“We have expressed our intention
that the specialization area of our Hitit University Faculty of Sports Sciences
is wrestling and sports fields depending on wrestling. Hopefully, with the
appreciation and support of our Esteemed Minister of Sports, we, as a
university, will try to support the successes of our city, especially our
Municipality, in the context of professional clubs. Of course, we will take
decisive steps to show that we stand by each of our brothers and sisters who
are sweating, together with our Federation and our Ministry.”
Prof. Dr. Öztürk also expressed
his condolences to his family and the sports community, as well as to the Head
Coach İbrahim Halil Kay, one of the athletes of Batman Petrolspor's wrestling
team, who lost his life in a traffic accident while coming to Çorum to
participate in the Turkey U23 Freestyle Wrestling Championship.
Deputy Mayor of Çorum, İsmail
Yağbat, said that as the Municipality, they act as a locomotive in many fields
of sports, but they make an effort to improve wrestling in particular.
Noting that they believe that
Federation President Eroğlu will bring wrestling to a better place, Yağbat
said, “At the meeting where our Mayor and Federation President came together, a
mutual agreement was reached that the first organization of 2022, this
championship, would be given to Çorum. In this context, we wish our athletes
who come to our city a safe and gentle competition. As Çorum Municipality, we
will continue to struggle with the contributions of our Federation presidents
in order to make Çorum a sports city in all branches of sports, especially
wrestling.”
A Cooperation Protocol was
signed between our university and the Wrestling Federation
At the ceremony, “Athlete Analysis Collaboration Protocol”
was signed between Hitit University Faculty of Sports Sciences and Wrestling
Federation Presidency.
Protocol was signed by our Rector Prof. Dr. Ali Osman Öztürk and President of the
Federation Şeref Eroğlu.
Within
the scope of the protocol, it is aimed to determine the strengths and
weaknesses by collecting information about the attack, defense, counter, combined
techniques applied according to the positions in wrestling and the
determination of sports injuries that occur during the match.
