Mehmet Gürgen (born 30 December 1968) is a Turkish
boxer Boxer most commonly refers to:
* Boxer (boxing), a competitor in the sport of boxing
*Boxer (dog), a breed of dog
Boxer or boxers may also refer to:
Animal kingdom
* Boxer crab
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. He competed in the
men's light heavyweight event at the
1992 Summer Olympics
The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...
.
In his first match at the Olympics, he was drawn against
Angel Espinosa
Ángel Espinosa Capó (2 October 1966 – 12 April 2017) was a Cuban amateur boxer who dominated the 1980s at junior middleweight and middleweight and captured the 1986 World Amateur Boxing Championships. He never won an Olympic medal due to C ...
but was beaten in the third round.
At the
1991 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Sydney, he made it as far as the semi-finals before defeat to
Torsten May
Torsten May (born September 10, 1969 in Glauchau, Saxony) is a former German boxer, who won the Light Heavyweight Gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics. He challenged once for the IBF cruiserweight championship in 2006.
Amateur career
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in the light heavyweight category.
References
1968 births
Living people
Turkish male boxers
Olympic boxers for Turkey
Boxers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing (living people)
AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists
Light-heavyweight boxers
20th-century Turkish sportspeople
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