Yakup Kılıç Explained

Yakup Kılıç
Weight Class:Featherweight
Club:Fenerbahçe SK, Istanbul
Birth Date:13 July 1986
Birth Place:Elazığ, Eastern Anatolia
Weight:57kg (126lb)

Yakup Kılıç (born July 13, 1986) is a Turkish boxer in the featherweight (57 kg) discipline. He is member of Istanbul Fenerbahçe Boxing Club.[1]

Career

Kılıç participated at the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Almería, Spain and won bronze medal. He boxed another bronze medal at the 2009 Mediterranean Games in Pescara, Italy.

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

At the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships held in Chicago, United States, he won a bronze medaland qualified for the 2008 Olympics. He did so by beating Arash Usmanee of Canada by a slim one point margin 20–19.[2]

At the Olympics 2008 he lost his semifinal to Vasyl Lomachenko and won Bronze.

Olympic Games results

2008 (as a featherweight)

World Championships results

2005 (as a featherweight)

2007 (as a featherweight)

References

Notes and References

  1. http://www.fenerbahce.org/kurumsal/detay.asp?ContentID=6273 Fenerbahçe Boxing squad
  2. http://www.aiba.org/documents/site1/wch_chicago/C75W57.pdf 2007 AIBA World Boxing Championships