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
1996 Summer Olympics
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in Atlanta, and the
2000 Summer Olympics
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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
Kutaisi
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. On August 20, 2001, he was killed in a taxi cab crash in
Des Plaines
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,
Illinois
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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 (South Korea) – his opponent retired on the fourth and final round
*Lost to
Vugar Alakparov (Azerbaijan) 8–18
References
1972 births
2001 deaths
Martial artists from Kutaisi
Male boxers from Georgia (country)
Boxers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for Georgia (country)
Olympic boxers for Turkey
Road incident deaths in Illinois
Turkish male boxers
AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists
Middleweight boxers
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