Adem Kılıçcı (; born March 5, 1986) is a Turkish

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in the

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division. At , he weighs . He is currently a member of the Fenerbahçe Boxing Club in

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. On 1 February 2017, the

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disqualified Kılıççı from the 2012 Olympic Games due to an adverse test for

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, a finding from the IOC's 2016 wave of retesting of samples from previous Games. Kılıççı had ranked 5th in men's 69–75 kg boxing.

Welterweight

Kılıççı won a silver medal at the

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, Turkey. Kılıççı participated at the

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held in

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and won the

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at welterweight.2007 AIBA World Boxing Championships
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he was defeated in the first round by British boxer

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3:14 and decided to move up to middleweight.

Middleweight

In 2009, Kılıcı gained the silver medal at the

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losing to Rachid Hamani in the final. He won the silver medal at the 2011 European Amateur Championships held in

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, Turkey, losing to Maxim Koptyakov of Russia. At the 2012 Olympics he defeated Nursahat Pazziyev of Turkmenistan and Aleksandar Drenovak of Serbia before losing 13:17 to Japan's

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. But he tested positive for

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after re-analysis of his samples, and was disqualified. He won a gold medal at the

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, Turkey.

Competitions

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