- Yakup Kılıç
Yakup Kılıç (born
July 13 ,1986 ) is a Turkish boxer in thefeatherweight (57 kg) discipline. He is member ofIstanbul Fenerbahçe Boxing Club. [ [http://www.fenerbahce.org/kurumsal/detay.asp?ContentID=6273 Fenerbahçe Boxing squad] ]Career
Kılıç participated at the 2005 Mediterranean Games in
Almería ,Spain and wonbronze medal .At the European Championships 2006 he lost his first bout against Irish Eric Donovan 29:33.
At the
2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships held inChicago, USA , he won a bronze medaland qualified for the2008 Olympics .He did so by beatingArash Usmanee ofCanada by a slim one point margin 20-19. [ [http://www.aiba.org/documents/site1/wch_chicago/C75W57.pdf 2007 AIBA World Boxing Championships] ]At the Olympics 2008 he lost his semifinal to
Vasyl Lomachenko and won Bronze.Olympic results
2008 (as a featherweight)
*1st round bye
*DefeatedSatoshi Shimizu (Japan) 12-9
*DefeatedAbdelkader Chadi (Algeria) 13-6
*Lost toVasyl Lomachenko (Ukraine) 1-10World amateur championships results
2005 (as a featherweight)
*DefeatedAboubaker Seddik Lbida (Morocco) 29-20
*Lost toBerik Serikbayev (Kazakhstan) 25-292007 (as a featherweight)
*DefeatedPablo Figuls (Costa Rica) RSCO 3
*DefeatedArash Usmanee (Canada) 20-19
*DefeatedSailom Ardee (Thailand) 22-13
*Lost toAlbert Selimov (Russia) walk-over (placed 3rd)References
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