{"id":57451,"date":"2015-09-09T12:55:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T09:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=57451"},"modified":"2015-09-09T12:55:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T09:55:35","slug":"turkish-wrestlers-crowned-world-champions-57451","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkish-wrestlers-crowned-world-champions-57451\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish wrestlers crowned world champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57452\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Turkish-wrestlers-crowned-world-champions.jpg\" alt=\"Turkish wrestlers crowned world champions\" width=\"610\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Turkish-wrestlers-crowned-world-champions.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Turkish-wrestlers-crowned-world-champions-280x176.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Turkish-wrestlers-crowned-world-champions-570x360.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/>Two Turkish wrestlers were crowned world champions in Greco-Roman style Tuesday in the 2015 World Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas.<\/h1>\n<p>Turkish wrestler Riza Kayaalp beat Cuban Mijain Lopez Nunez 1-0 to win the gold medal in the 130-kilogram category.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just finished a legend,\u201d 25-year-old Kayaalp, winner of previous world and European titles, said after beating Nunez, 33, in Orleans Arena. Nunez was previously crowned world champion five times and Olympic champion twice.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, Turkish wrestler Selcuk Cebi beat Belarusian Viktar Sasunouski 3-0 to win the gold medal in the 80-kilogram category.<\/p>\n<p>Cebi dedicated the gold medal to Turkey\u2019s population. \u201cOur country is going through a period of turmoil, there are martyrs. I would be very happy if this medal gives a little moral to the families of those martyred,\u201d he said, referring to soldiers martyred by PKK terrorists this summer. This is Cebi&#8217;s third world title.<\/p>\n<p>The 2015 World Wrestling Championships in three disciplines: Men&#8217;s Greco-Roman, Women&#8217;s Freestyle and Men&#8217;s Freestyle are being held between Sept. 7 and 12 (Anadolu Agency).<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Turkish wrestlers were crowned world champions in Greco-Roman style Tuesday in the 2015 World Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,127],"tags":[44313,53910,77011,77012],"class_list":["post-57451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-sport","tag-las-vegas","tag-riza-kayaalp","tag-turkish-wrestler","tag-world-wrestling-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}