Tuncay Çalışkan (born 9 August 1977 in

Söke Söke is a town and the largest district of Aydın Province in the Aegean region of western Turkey, 54 km (34 miles) south-west of the city of Aydın, near the Aegean coast. It had 121.940 population in 2020. It neighbours are Germencik fro ...

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) is a Turkish-born Austrian

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practitioner, who competed in the men's featherweight category. He captured a bronze medal in the 72-kg division at the

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, and attained top seven finishes in two editions of the Olympic Games (2000 and 2004), representing his naturalized nation

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. Caliskan is also a full-fledged member of Baden Taekwondo Club (german: TKD Verein Baden) and Austrian taekwondo squad, under head coach and master Mustafa Atalar. Caliskan made his official debut, as part of his naturalized Austrian squad, at the

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, where he competed in the men's featherweight class (68 kg). He crashed out in the opening match 3–7 to South Korean fighter and eventual silver medalist

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, but mounted his strength to edge past Russia's Aslander Dzitiev (0–6) and then scored a 4–4 victory over Germany's Aziz Acharki upon the referees' decision in the repechage rounds. Caliskan secured his place for a chance of an Olympic bronze medal, but narrowly missed out in a tough 2–4 defeat to Iran's

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, relegating him to fourth. At the

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, Caliskan qualified for his second Austrian squad in the men's featherweight class (68 kg), by placing second behind Azerbaijan's

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and granting a berth from the European Olympic Qualifying Tournament in

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. In his opening match, Caliskan trailed behind Central African Republic's

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1–4 in the third round, until he knocked his opponent unconscious with a roundhouse kick and dropped him face-down to the mat. Following Caliskan's unprecedented victory, Liango was sent to a nearby hospital and diagnosed with concussion. In the quarterfinal match, Caliskan produced a pattern of aggressive attacks against Chinese Taipei's

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on the final round, but his opponent responded to seal a 10–8 victory over him at the very end. With Huang moving forward into the final, Caliskan fell short of his Olympic medal chance in a 4–8 defeat to Egypt's

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in the repechage.

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* 1977 births Living people Austrian male taekwondo practitioners Olympic taekwondo practitioners for Austria Taekwondo practitioners at the 2000 Summer Olympics Taekwondo practitioners at the 2004 Summer Olympics Austrian people of Turkish descent Sportspeople from Vienna People from Söke Sportspeople from Aydın Province World Taekwondo Championships medalists {{Turkey-taekwondo-bio-stub