İhsan Yıldırım Tarhan (born 24 November 1980) is a Turkish boxer competing in the

light heavyweight Light heavyweight, also referred to as junior cruiserweight or light cruiserweight, is a weight class in combat sports. Boxing Professional In professional boxing, the division is above and up to , falling between super middleweight and cruise ...

(81 kg) division.

Boxing career

At the

2001 Mediterranean Games The XIV Mediterranean Games ( ar, ألعاب البحر الأبيض المتوسط 2001), commonly known as the 2001 Mediterranean Games, were the 14th Mediterranean Games held in Tunis, Tunisia, from 2-15 September 2001, where 2,991 athletes ( ...

, he won the silver medal after he had fought his way into the finals against John Dovi from France and Ahmed Ismail from Egypt and only then was defeated by the Tunisian

Mourad Sahraoui Mourad Sahraoui ( ar, مراد الصحراوي) (born January 12, 1983) is an amateur boxer from Tunisia best known to win Gold in the heavyweight division at the 2007 All-African Games. Career Sahraoui failed to qualify for the 2004 Athens Game ...

. In 2002 he won gold medals at Bocskai tournament in

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, Hungary and at Ahmet Cömert tournament in

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, Turkey. He also won bronze at Chowdhry Cup in

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, Azerbaijan and even launched at the

2002 European Amateur Boxing Championships The Men's 2002 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Perm, Russia from July 12 to July 21. The 34th edition of thi bi-annual competition was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA The ''End All Be All'' ...

in Russia. There he defeated the Moldovan Mihail Muntean before retiring in the second round just against Ivan Ribac from Yugoslavia (11:12). In 2003 he won silver at the Bocskai tournament, and each bronze at Chowdhry Cup and Ahmet Cömert tournament. He also won with Final victory against the Irish

Kenny Egan Kenneth "Kenny" Egan (born 7 January 1982) is an Irish politician and boxer from Clondalkin, Dublin best known for winning a silver medal in the final of the 81 kg, Light-Heavyweight boxing final at the 2008 Olympics. He won ...

, the

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, France. At the

2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships The men's 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Bangkok, Thailand, from July 6 to July 13. The competition was organised by the world governing body for amateur boxing AIBA. Medal winners Medal table External links Result ...

, he was eliminated in the preliminary round against Aleksy Kuziemski from Poland (7:10). In 2004 he won respectively the World University Championships in Antalya and the

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, Spain. He beat in EU-finals Aleksy Kuziemski, previously beat

Constantin Bejenaru Constantin Bejenaru (born 7 June 1984) is a Moldovan-born Romanian professional boxer living Shelton Connecticut and training Brooklyn New York, United States. He is currently trained by Ilya Mesishchev. His former coach from Bacău, is Relu Aura ...

from Romania and Tomáš Adámek from Czech Republic. In the finals of the World Cup to him a victory against military champion Danil Shved from Russia had succeeded. At

2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships The men's 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Pula, Croatia, from February 19 to February 29. The 35th edition of thi bi-annual competition was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA. A total number ...

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, Croatia also defeating Kenny Egan again, but failed in the second round at the Russians Evgeny Makarenko. In addition, he won overwhelming the Strandja tournament in

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, Bulgaria. He defeated Stefan Bálint from Romania (TKO), Tony Davis of England (33:13), the Olympic silver medalist Rudolf Kraj from Czech Republic (25:12), the Olympic bronze medalist

Tervel Pulev Tervel Venkov Pulev ( bg, Тервел Венков Пулев) is a Bulgarian professional boxer. He has held the World Boxing Association, WBA International Cruiserweight (boxing), cruiserweight title since December 2019 and previously the Eur ...

from Bulgaria (19:11) and the two-time world champion

Clemente Russo Clemente Russo (born 27 July 1982) is an Italian amateur boxer, best known for winning gold at the 2007 and 2013 World Amateur Boxing Championships at heavyweight (201 lbs limit). He currently boxes for the Italia Thunder team in the Worl ...

of Italy (29:18). He then took part in the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

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, Greece and beat

Soulan Pownceby Soulan James Pownceby (née Soulan James Rikihana, born 4 May 1975 in Christchurch) is a New Zealand boxer who was described by TVNZ in 2004 as one of New Zealand's most exciting talents since David Tua. He is also notable for convictions for as ...

from New Zealand and

Beibut Shumenov Beibut Amirhanovich Shumenov ( kk, Бейбіт Әмірханұлы Шүменов; born 19 August 1983) is a Kazakhstani former professional boxer. He is a multiple-time world champion in two weight classes, having held the WBA (Regular) cruis ...

from Kazakhstan then lost in the quarter finals against

Utkirbek Haydarov Utkirbek Haydarov (Уткирбек Хайдаров; born January 25, 1974, in Andijon) is an Uzbekistani boxer who competed in the light heavyweight (81 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal. Career The aggressive sou ...

from Uzbekistan as a result he was 5th. He again won the silver medal at the

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in Spain, but failed in the first round of the 2005 World Cup in China against Adura Olelehin from Nigeria (15:16). At the

2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships The Men's 2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria from July 13 to July 23. The 36th edition of this bi-annual competition was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA. Medal winners M ...

in Bulgaria, he was defeated in the second round against

Alexander Povernov Alexander Povernov (born 17 February 1978) is a German former amateur boxer who won a heavyweight bronze medal at the 2005 World Championships. Career The hard punching Povernov could win the German Championships at heavyweights with ...

from Germany.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tarhan, İhsan Yildirim 1980 births Living people Olympic boxers for Turkey Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Light-heavyweight boxers Turkish male boxers Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Turkey Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in boxing 21st-century Turkish people Place of birth missing (living people)