Furkan Ulaş Memiş (born April 22, 1991) is a Turkish
amateur boxer
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History
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competing in the bantamweight division.
Memiş was born in
Trabzon
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. At , he weighs .
He competed at the
2008 Olympics in flyweight but was defeated in his first bout by
India
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Jitender Kumar. At the
2011 European Amateur Championships held in
Ankara
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, Turkey, he won the bronze medal.
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Results
1991 births
Flyweight boxers
Living people
Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for Turkey
Boxers from Trabzon
Bantamweight boxers
Turkish male boxers
21st-century Turkish sportsmen
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