Bülent Ulusoy (born January 7, 1978, in
Trabzon
Trabzon (; Ancient Greek: Tραπεζοῦς (''Trapezous''), Ophitic Pontic Greek: Τραπεζούντα (''Trapezounta''); Georgian: ტრაპიზონი (''Trapizoni'')), historically known as Trebizond in English, is a city on the Bl ...
) is a Turkish boxer best known to win the European title 2000 at welterweight.
Career
In 2000, Bulent Ulusoy won the Euro welterweight title. At the
Olympics 2000 he lost the quarterfinal to
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*Vitalie Marinuța
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.
In 2001 he competed at the world championships at junior middleweight and beat
Jean Pascal
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and lost to
Marian Simion
Marian Simion (born 14 September 1975 in București) is a Romanian boxer, who competed in the Light Middleweight (71 kg) at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal. He repeated that feat one year later, at the 2001 World Amateur ...
19:20.
Ulusoy qualified for 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), ...
by ending up in first place at the
4th AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament
The 4th AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament was held in Baku, Azerbaijan from April 27 to May 1, 2004 during the annual Chowdry Boxing Cup. Boxers finishing in the top two in each weight category earned a chance to compete at the 2004 ...
in
Baku, Azerbaijan
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. At the
Olympics 2004 he lost in the men's welterweight division to
Sherzod Husanov.
[
He won the 2005 Mediterranean Games. At the European Championships 2006 he lost his first match against Russian favorite ]Andrey Balanov
Andrey Vladimirovich Balanov (russian: Андрей Владимирович Баланов) (born April 27, 1976 in Podolsk) is a former Russian boxer best known for winning the 2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships at welterweight, ...
.
References
External links
Euro 2000
1978 births
Living people
Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for Turkey
Welterweight boxers
Light-middleweight boxers
Turkish male boxers
European champions for Turkey
AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Turkey
Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games
Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games medalists in boxing
Sportspeople from Trabzon
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