Adem Kılıççı | |
Birth Date: | 5 March 1986 |
Birth Place: | Ağrı, Turkey |
Height: | 1.85 m |
Weight: | 69 kg |
Country: | Turkey |
Weight Class: | Welterweight, Middleweight |
Club: | Fenerbahçe Boxing |
Adem Kılıççı (pronounced as /tr/; born March 5, 1986) is a Turkish professional boxer in the middleweight division. At 1.85m (06.07feet), he weighs 75kg (165lb). He is currently a member of the Fenerbahçe Boxing Club in Istanbul.[1] [2] On 1 February 2017, the IOC disqualified Kılıççı from the 2012 Olympic Games due to an adverse test for turinabol, 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.[3]
Kılıççı won a silver medal at the 2004 World University Boxing Championship in Antalya, Turkey.[4]
Kılıççı participated at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships held in Chicago, USA and won the bronze medal at welterweight.[5]
At the 2008 Olympics he was defeated in the first round by British boxer Billy Joe Saunders 3:14 and decided to move up to middleweight.
In 2009, Kılıcı gained the silver medal at the Mediterranean Games in Pescara, Italy losing to Rachid Hamani in the final.
He won the silver medal at the 2011 European Amateur Championships held in Ankara, 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 Ryōta Murata. But he tested positive for steroid turinabol after re-analysis of his samples, and was disqualified.[3] He won a gold medal at the 2013 Mediterranean Games in Mersin, Turkey.
Year | Competition | Results | |
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2017 | Survivor Ünlüler-Volunteers | ||
2018 | Survivor 2018: Ünlüler-Volunteers Allstar | ||
2022 | Survivor All Star |