Serhat Balcı (; born March 15, 1982 in

Üsküdar Üsküdar () is a large and densely populated district of Istanbul, Turkey, on the Anatolian shore of the Bosphorus. It is bordered to the north by Beykoz, to the east by Ümraniye, to the southeast by Ataşehir and to the south by Kadıköy; w ...

Istanbul Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, ...

) is a male

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from

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

competing in the 96 kg division of freestyle wrestling. The tall athlete is a member of the Sancaktepe Belediye S.K. in Sancaktepe, Istanbul. Serhat Balcı holds a silver medal won at the 2011 World Wrestling Championships in Istanbul, Turkey and another silver medal won at the 2005 European Wrestling Championships in

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. He represented Turkey at the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

without winning a medal. He qualified for the participation at the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

representing Turkey where he lost to

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* * Living people 1982 births Turkish male sport wrestlers Olympic wrestlers of Turkey Wrestlers at the 2008 Summer Olympics People from Üsküdar Wrestlers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Istanbul World Wrestling Championships medalists Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Turkey Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in wrestling 21st-century Turkish people {{Turkey-wrestling-bio-stub