Akın Kuloğlu (6 February 1972 – 20 August 2001) was a Georgian-born

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who competed in the men's middleweight division (75 kg) at the

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in Atlanta, and the

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in Sydney. Shortly after the games, Kuloğlu moved to the United States, and worked as a taxi cab driver in Chicago suburbs. He was born in

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. On August 20, 2001, he was killed in a taxi cab crash in

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Olympic Games

1996 (as a light welterweight under ''Georgia'') *Defeated Ricardo Araneda (Chile) 10–3 *Lost to Mohamed Bahari (Algeria) 5–8 2000 (as a light welterweight under ''Turkey'') *Defeated Mariano Carrera (Argentina) – won after the referee stopped the contest for outscoring *Defeated

Im Jung-Bin Im Jeong-bin (born 18 May 1973) is a South Korean boxer. He competed in the men's middleweight event at the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ...

(South Korea) – his opponent retired on the fourth and final round *Lost to

Vugar Alakparov Vugar Mursal Alakbarov ( az, Vüqar Mursal Ələkbərov; born 5 January 1981) is an Azerbaijani boxer. Alakbarov competed in the middleweight class (−75 kg) at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal. At the 2004 Summer Olympic ...

(Azerbaijan) 8–18

References

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