Bülent Ulusoy (born January 7, 1978, in
Trabzon
Trabzon, historically known as Trebizond, is a city on the Black Sea coast of northeastern Turkey and the capital of Trabzon Province. The city was founded in 756 BC as "Trapezous" by colonists from Miletus. It was added into the Achaemenid E ...
) is a Turkish boxer best known to win the European title 2000 at welterweight.
Career
In 2000, Bulent Ulusoy won the Euro welterweight title. At the
Olympics 2000 he lost the quarterfinal to
Vitalie Gruşac.
In 2001 he competed at the world championships at junior middleweight and beat
Jean Pascal
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and lost to
Marian Simion
Marian Simion (born 14 September 1975 in București) is a Romanian boxer, who competed in the Light Middleweight (71 kg) at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal. He repeated that feat one year later, at the 2001 World Amateur Bo ...
19:20.
Ulusoy qualified for the
2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece.
The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...
by ending up in first place at the
4th AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in
Baku, Azerbaijan
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. At the
Olympics 2004 he lost in the men's welterweight division to
Sherzod Husanov.
[
He won the 2005 Mediterranean Games. At the European Championships 2006 he lost his first match against Russian favorite ]Andrey Balanov
Andrey Vladimirovich Balanov () (born April 27, 1976 in Podolsk) is a former Russian boxing, boxer best known for winning the 2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships at welterweight, being part of the Russian 2005 team at the Boxing Wor ...
.[https://famememoir.com/people/bulent-ulusoy/]
References
External links
Euro 2000
1978 births
Living people
Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for Turkey
Welterweight boxers
Light-middleweight boxers
Turkish male boxers
European champions for Turkey
AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Turkey
Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games
Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games medalists in boxing
Boxers from Trabzon
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