Yakup Kılıç (born July 13, 1986) is a Turkish boxer in the

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(57 kg) discipline. He is member of

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Fenerbahçe Boxing Club.

Career

Kılıç participated at the

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, Spain and won

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. He boxed another bronze medal at the

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, Italy. At the European Championships 2006 he lost his first bout against Irish Eric Donovan 29:33. At the

2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships The 2007 AIBA World Boxing Championships were held in Chicago, United States from October 23, 2007 to November 3, 2007. It was held at the UIC Pavilion. It was the biggest World Championships in AIBA history. The competition is under the super ...

held in

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, United States, he won a bronze medal and qualified for the

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. He did so by beating Arash Usmanee of Canada by a slim one point margin 20–19.2007 AIBA World Boxing Championships
At the Olympics 2008 he lost his semifinal to

Vasyl Lomachenko Vasiliy Anatolyevich Lomachenko (also spelled Vasyl Anatoliyovych Lomachenko; , ; born 17 February 1988) is a Ukrainian former professional boxer who competed between 2013 and 2024. He has held multiple world championships in three weight class ...

and won Bronze.

Olympic Games results

2008 (as a featherweight) *1st round bye *Defeated Satoshi Shimizu (Japan) 12-9 *Defeated Abdelkader Chadi (Algeria) 13-6 *Lost to

(Ukraine) 1-10

World Championships results

2005 (as a featherweight) *Defeated Aboubakr Seddik Lbida (Morocco) 29-20 *Lost to Berik Serikbayev (Kazakhstan) 25-29 2007 (as a featherweight) *Defeated Pablo Figuls (Costa Rica) RSCO 3 *Defeated Arash Usmanee (Canada) 20-19 *Defeated Sailom Ardee (Thailand) 22-13 *Lost to Albert Selimov (Russia) walk-over (placed 3rd)

References

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External links

* 1986 births Living people Fenerbahçe boxers Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers for Turkey Olympic bronze medalists for Turkey Olympic medalists in boxing Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Turkish male boxers AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Turkey Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games Competitors at the 2009 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in boxing Featherweight boxers Sportspeople from Elazığ 21st-century Turkish sportsmen {{Turkey-Olympic-medalist-stub