Yasar Dogu 1997
Host city	Ankara, Turkey
Dates	14–16 February 1997
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The Yasar Dogu Tournament 1997, was a wrestling event held in Ankara, Turkey between 14 and 16 February 1997. This tournament was held as 25th.^[1][2][3]

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.^[4]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Turkey	4	3	4	11
2	United States	4	1	1	6
3	Russia	0	2	1	3
4	Mongolia	0	1	0	1
	Ukraine	0	1	0	1
6	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		8	8	8	24

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
54 kg	Sammie Henson  United States	Zuunbayan Tumendemberel  Mongolia	Murad Ramazanov  Russia
58 kg	Harun Doğan  Turkey	İsmail Zurnacı  Turkey	Fikret Aker  Turkey
63 kg	Shawn Charles  United States	Andre Fokovlev  Russia	Muharrem Demireğen  Turkey
69 kg	Yüksel Şanlı  Turkey	John Guria  United States	Adem Kaya  Turkey
76 kg	Nuri Zengin  Turkey	Sedat Dumlu  Turkey	Steve Marianetti  United States
85 kg	Kevin Jackson  United States	Eldar Assanov  Ukraine	Ali Rıza Keser  Turkey
97 kg	Melvin Douglas  United States	Aleksandr Shemalov  Russia	Islam Bairamukov  Kazakhstan
125 kg	Zekeriya Güçlü  Turkey	Aydın Polatçı  Turkey	Zsolt Gombos  Hungary