Yaşar Giritli (born 1 August 1969) is a retired male
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
* Boxer shrimp, a small group of decapod crustaceans
* Boxer snipe ee ...
from
Turkey
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. He competed for his native country at the
1996 Summer Olympics
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in
Atlanta, Georgia
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. There, he was stopped in the first round of the men's light flyweight division by Thailand's
Somrot Kamsing
Somrot Kamsing ( th, สมรถ คำสิงห์, born 1971-09-24) is a retired male boxer from Thailand, who competed for his Asian country at the 1996 Summer Olympics. An older brother of Somluck Kamsing, he was defeated in Atlanta, Ge ...
.
References
sports-reference
1969 births
Living people
Flyweight boxers
Boxers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for Turkey
Turkish male boxers
20th-century Turkish people
Place of birth missing (living people)
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