Bünyamin Sudaş

Bünyamin Sudaş — Biography

Bünyamin Sudaş was born on 23 August 1975 in the village of Ekmekli in Erzincan. After high school he studied physical education and sports at Gazi University in Ankara. Standing 176 cm tall, the weightlifter started the sport in 1995, competed for the ASKİ Sports Club and was coached by Raif Özel and Muharrem Süleymanoğlu.

His first major success came at the 1999 European Weightlifting Championships, where he took third place at 94 kg; the following year he was again European third in the same category. At the World Championships he finished second in 2001 and third in 2003, and he won silver at the 2005 European Championships. He also earned medals at the Mediterranean Games. He was a member of the Turkish national weightlifting team from the late 1990s to the late 2000s.

Competing in the 105 kg class, Sudaş represented Turkey at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, finishing seventh, and at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, finishing fourteenth.