Nurhan Süleymanoğlu
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| Full name | Nurhan Süleymanoğlu | ||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Turkey | ||||||||||||||||
| Born | February 28, 1971 , Kazakhstan | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | Light Welterweight | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Nurhan Süleymanoğlu (born February 28, 1971) is a Kazakhstan-born Turkish former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2007.
As an amateur, he participated at the 1996 Summer Olympics, where he was stopped in the second round of the light welterweight (63,5 kg) division by Cuba's Héctor Vinent. At the 2000 Summer Olympics he was stopped in the second round by Belarus' Sergey Bykovsky.
Süleymanoğlu won silver medals in the same division at the 1995 World Championships and the 1996 European Championships, as well as a gold medal at the 1993 European Championships.
Amateur highlights[]
- 1993: World Championships in Tampere, Finland as a Light Welterweight:
- Defeated Vukasin Dobrasinovic (Yugoslavia) 12-2
- Lost to Hector Vinent (Cuba) RSC 2
- 1993: 1st place at Mediterranean Games in Narbonne, France as a Light Welterweight:
- Defeated Fathi Missaoui (Tunisia) points
- Defeated Nordine Mouchi (France) points
- Defeated (Spain) 4-2
- 1993: Winner at the European Championships in Bursa, Turkey as a Light Welterweight:
- Defeated Jason Williams (Gal) 14-3
- Defeated Peter Richardson (England) 8-5
- Defeated Nordine Mouchi (France) 10-6
- Defeated (Armenia) 12-3
- Defeated Oktay Urkal (Germany) 5-2
- 1995: 2nd place at World Championships in Berlin, Germany as a Light Welterweight:
- Defeated (Yugoslavia) 8-4
- Defeated Besik Vardzelashvili (Georgia) 5-8
- Defeated (Kazakhstan) 9-4
- Defeated Oktay Urkal (Germany) 10-3
- Lost to Hector Vinent (Cuba) 4-7
- 1996: 2nd place at European Championships in Vejle, Denmark as a Light Weltwerweight:
- Defeated (Romania) 14-12
- Defeated (Hungary) 5-0
- Defeated Nordine Mouchi (France) 11-8
- Defeated Radoslav Suslekov (Bulgaria) 6-4
- Lost to Oktay Urkal (Germany) 4-6
- 1996: Represented Turkey at the Olympic Games in Atlanta as a Light Welterweight:
- Defeated Aboubacar Diallo (Guinea) 21-5
- Lost to Hector Vinent (Cuba) 1-23
- 1997: Competed in the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary as a Light Welterewight:
- Lost to (Algeria) 3-5
- 1998: 2nd place at European Championships in Minsk, Belarus as a Light Welterweight:
- Defeated (Denmark) 8-2
- Defeated Jacek Bielski (Poland) 8-2
- Defeated Sergey Bykovsky (Belarus) 6-3
- Lost to Dorel Simion (Romania) 3-9
- 1999: Competed at the World Championships in Houston, United States as a Welterweight:
- Lost to Lucian Bute (Romania) 5-9
- 2000: 3rd place at European Championships in Tampere, Finland as a Light Welterweight:
- Defeated (Greece) 6-3
- Defeated Mariusz Cendrowski (Poland) 6-2
- Lost to (Russia) 6-11
- 2000: Represented Turkey at the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia as a Light Welterweight:
- Defeated Michael Strange (Canada) 9-3
- Lost to Sergey Bykovsky (Belarus) 38-40
Professional record[]
References[]
Categories:
- 1971 births
- Fenerbahçe boxers
- Welterweight boxers
- Boxers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers of Turkey
- Living people
- Turkish male boxers
- AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists
- Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Turkey
- Mediterranean Games medalists in boxing
- Competitors at the 1997 Mediterranean Games