Turgut Aykaç
Turkish boxer (born 1958)
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 | 1984 Los Angeles | Featherweight |
Türgüt Aykaç (born January 1, 1958, in Adana) is a former boxer from Turkey. At the 1984 Summer Olympics, he won the bronze medal in the men's featherweight division (– 57 kg), alongside Omar Catari of Venezuela. In the semifinals he was defeated by eventual silver medalist Peter Konyegwachie of Nigeria.
He began boxing 1975 in Adanaspor and fought 27 times in the national team.[1] He was one of the three Turkish boxers along with Eyüp Can and Malik Beyleroğlu, who won the first Olympic medals in boxing for Turkey. They were also Turkey's first Olympic medals in other sport than wrestling.
Olympic results
- 1st round bye
- Defeated Raul Trapero (Spain) 5-0
- Defeated Abraham Mieses (Dominican Republic) RSC 3
- Defeated Mohamed Hegazy (Egypt) RSC 1
- Lost to Peter Konyegwachie (Nigeria) 0-5
References
- ^ Newspaper Zaman February 23, 2002 Archived September 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine (in Turkish)
External links
- Turgut Aykaç at Olympedia
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Olympic medalists for Turkey
Gold medalists- Yaşar Erkan
- Nasuh Akar
- Gazanfer Bilge
- Celal Atik
- Yaşar Doğu
- Ahmet Kireççi
- Mehmet Oktav
- Hasan Gemici
- Bayram Şit
- Mithat Bayrak (2 titles)
- Mustafa Dağıstanlı (2 titles)
- Hamit Kaplan
- Müzahir Sille
- Tevfik Kış
- Ahmet Bilek
- Hasan Güngör
- İsmet Atlı
- Kazım Ayvaz
- İsmail Ogan
- Mahmut Atalay
- Ahmet Ayık
- Naim Süleymanoğlu (3 titles)
- Halil Mutlu (3 titles)
- Akif Pirim
- Hamza Yerlikaya (2 titles)
- Mahmut Demir
- Hüseyin Özkan
- Nurcan Taylan
- Taner Sağır
- Ramazan Şahin
- Servet Tazegül
- Taha Akgül
- Mete Gazoz
- Busenaz Sürmeneli
Silver medalists- Halit Balamir
- Adil Candemir
- Kenan Olcay
- Muhlis Tayfur
- Rıza Doğan
- İbrahim Zengin
- İsmail Ogan
- Hamit Kaplan
- Hüseyin Akbaş
- Hasan Güngör
- Ahmet Ayık
- Vehbi Akdağ
- Necmi Gençalp
- Hakkı Başar
- Kenan Şimşek
- Malik Beyleroğlu
- Şeref Eroğlu
- Bahri Tanrıkulu
- Atagün Yalçınkaya
- Azize Tanrıkulu
- Nur Tatar
- Daniyar Ismayilov
- Rıza Kayaalp
- Selim Yaşar
- Buse Naz Çakıroğlu
- Eray Şamdan
Bronze medalists- Ahmet Kireççi
- Halil Kaya
- Ruhi Sarıalp
- Adil Atan
- Dursun Ali Eğribaş
- Hüseyin Akbaş
- Hamit Kaplan
- Eyüp Can
- Turgut Aykaç
- Ayhan Taşkın
- Ali Kayalı
- Akif Pirim
- Hamide Bıkçın
- Adem Bereket
- Sedat Artuç
- Reyhan Arabacıoğlu
- Mehmet Özal
- Aydın Polatçı
- Yakup Kılıç
- Servet Tazegül
- Nazmi Avluca
- Rıza Kayaalp (2 titles)
- Yasmani Copello
- Cenk İldem
- Soner Demirtaş
- Nur Tatar
- Hakan Reçber
- Hatice Kübra İlgün
- Yasemin Adar
- Ferhat Arıcan
- Taha Akgül
- Ali Sofuoğlu
- Merve Çoban
- Uğur Aktaş
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