Yakup Kılıç
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Full name | Yakup Kılıç | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Elazığ, Eastern Anatolia | July 13, 1986||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 57 kg (126 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight class | Featherweight | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Fenerbahçe SK, Istanbul | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Yakup Kılıç (born July 13, 1986) is a Turkish boxer in the featherweight (57 kg) discipline. He is member of Istanbul Fenerbahçe Boxing Club.[1]
Career[]
Kılıç participated at the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Almería, Spain and won bronze medal. He boxed another bronze medal at the 2009 Mediterranean Games in Pescara, Italy.
At the European Championships 2006 he lost his first bout against Irish Eric Donovan 29:33.
At the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships held in Chicago, USA, he won a bronze medal and qualified for the 2008 Olympics. He did so by beating Arash Usmanee of Canada by a slim one point margin 20-19.[2]
At the Olympics 2008 he lost his semifinal to Vasyl Lomachenko and won Bronze.
Olympic Games results[]
2008 (as a featherweight)
- 1st round bye
- Defeated Satoshi Shimizu (Japan) 12-9
- Defeated Abdelkader Chadi (Algeria) 13-6
- Lost to Vasyl Lomachenko (Ukraine) 1-10
World Championships results[]
2005 (as a featherweight)
- Defeated Aboubakr Seddik Lbida (Morocco) 29-20
- Lost to (Kazakhstan) 25-29
2007 (as a featherweight)
- Defeated (Costa Rica) RSCO 3
- Defeated Arash Usmanee (Canada) 20-19
- Defeated (Thailand) 22-13
- Lost to Albert Selimov (Russia) walk-over (placed 3rd)
References[]
- 1986 births
- Living people
- Fenerbahçe boxers
- Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers of Turkey
- Olympic bronze medalists for Turkey
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Turkish male boxers
- AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists
- Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Turkey
- Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
- Competitors at the 2009 Mediterranean Games
- Mediterranean Games medalists in boxing
- Featherweight boxers
- Turkish boxing biography stubs
- Turkish Olympic medalist stubs