Gökhan Kılıç (born January 6, 1988) is a

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weightlifter Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lift ...

competing in the –56 kg division. He won the gold medal in Snatch category and the silver medal lifting 256.0 kg in total at the

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held in

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. At the 2012 European Championships held in

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, Turkey, he became bronze medalist.

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International Weightlifting Federation
1981 births Living people Turkish male weightlifters Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Turkey Mediterranean Games medalists in weightlifting Competitors at the 2009 Mediterranean Games European Weightlifting Championships medalists 21st-century Turkish people People from Sakarya Province {{Turkey-weightlifting-bio-stub