İhsan Yıldırım Tarhan (born 24 November 1980) is a Turkish boxer competing in the

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(81 kg) division.

Boxing career

At the

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, he won the silver medal after he had fought his way into the finals against John Dovi from France and Ahmed Ismail from Egypt and only then was defeated by the Tunisian

Mourad Sahraoui Mourad Sahraoui () (born January 12, 1983) is an amateur boxer from Tunisia best known for winning Gold in the heavyweight division at the 2007 All-African Games. Career Sahraoui failed to qualify for the 2004 Athens Games by ending up in third ...

. In 2002 he won gold medals at Bocskai tournament in

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, Hungary and at Ahmet Cömert tournament in

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, Turkey. He also won bronze at Chowdhry Cup in

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, Azerbaijan and even launched at the 2002 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Russia. There he defeated the Moldovan Mihail Muntean before retiring in the second round just against Ivan Ribac from Yugoslavia (11:12). In 2003 he won silver at the Bocskai tournament, and each bronze at Chowdhry Cup and Ahmet Cömert tournament. He also won with Final victory against the Irish Kenny Egan, the European Union Amateur Boxing Championships in

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, France. At the

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, he was eliminated in the preliminary round against Aleksy Kuziemski from Poland (7:10). In 2004 he won respectively the

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in Antalya and the European Union Amateur Boxing Championships in

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, Spain. He beat in EU-finals Aleksy Kuziemski, previously beat

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from Romania and Tomáš Adámek from Czech Republic. In the finals of the World Cup to him a victory against military champion Danil Shved from Russia had succeeded. At 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships in

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, Croatia also defeating Kenny Egan again, but failed in the second round at the Russians Evgeny Makarenko. In addition, he won overwhelming the Strandja tournament in

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, Bulgaria. He defeated Stefan Bálint from Romania (TKO), Tony Davis of England (33:13), the Olympic silver medalist

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from Czech Republic (25:12), the Olympic bronze medalist

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from Bulgaria (19:11) and the two-time world champion Clemente Russo of Italy (29:18). He then took part in the

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, Greece and beat Soulan Pownceby from New Zealand and Beibut Shumenov from Kazakhstan then lost in the quarter finals against Utkirbek Haydarov from Uzbekistan as a result he was 5th. He again won the silver medal at the

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in Spain, but failed in the first round of the 2005 World Cup in China against Adura Olelehin from Nigeria (15:16). At the

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in Bulgaria, he was defeated in the second round against Alexander Povernov from Germany.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tarhan, İhsan Yildirim 1980 births Living people Olympic boxers for Turkey Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Light-heavyweight boxers Turkish male boxers Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Turkey Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in boxing 21st-century Turkish sportsmen Place of birth missing (living people)