Adem Kılıççı

Adem Kılıççı medal table
Boxing
Turkey
World Championship
bronze	2007	Welterweight
European Championship
silver	2011	medium weight
Mediterranean Games
gold	2013	medium weight
silver	2009	medium weight
EU championship
bronze	2007	Welterweight
World University Championship
silver	2004	Welterweight

Adem Kılıççı (born April 18, 1986 in Ağrı ) is a Turkish middleweight amateur boxer. He was a participant in the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games and also qualified for the 2016 Games .

Boxing career

amateur

Kılıççı is 1.84 m tall and boxes for the Fenerbahçe SK in Istanbul . He was nationally 2006 and 2007 Turkish welterweight champion and 2010 Turkish middleweight champion.

At the World University Championships 2004 in Antalya , he won the silver medal in the welterweight division. He was only inferior to the Ukrainian Serhiy Derewjantschenko 15:31 on points in the final. At the 2007 EU Championships in Dublin , he was defeated in the semi-finals of the welterweight division by the French Vice European Champion Xavier Noël 12:16 and thus won a bronze medal.

He won another bronze welterweight medal in November 2007 at the World Championships in Chicago . In the preliminary round he prevailed against the Japanese Yoshiyuki Hirano and defeated Scherali Mamadalijew from Tajikistan clearly 22: 8 in the round of 16. In the subsequent quarter-finals he defeated the Moldovan Vitalie Grușac 16:10 and was thus in the semifinals, where he was defeated by the American Demetrius Andrade 6:22.

With third place at the World Cup, he automatically qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , where he had to admit defeat to Englishman Billy Saunders 3:14 in the first fight . In November of the same year he also took part in the European Championships in Liverpool , where he was also defeated by Eamon O'Kane from Ireland just under 6-7 in the first fight .

At the Mediterranean Games in Pescara in 2009 , he reached the middleweight division by winning against Mariano Hilario from Spain (knockout), Saïd Rachidi from Morocco (4: 2) and Mathieu Bauderlique from France (13: 4) the final, where he against Rachid Hamani from Algeria lost 5-7.

In the middleweight division, he also started at the 2009 World Championships in Milan . With a 27: 0 win over the Kenyan Daniel Shishia and a 16: 2 win over the Slovak Tibor Varga he stood in the round of 16 against the Ukrainian Serhij Derewjantschenko. However, he succumbed to this 6:13. Even at the 2010 European Championships in Moscow , he remained medalless; Although he defeated Rachib Beilarow from Azerbaijan 9: 3 and the German Konstantin Buga prematurely, but failed in the subsequent quarter-finals against Russian Artyom Chebotaryov 5: 6.

In 2011 he became vice European middleweight champion in Ankara . He had defeated the Belarusian Vitali Bondarenko (20:17), again Rachib Beilarow (27:10) and Dschaba Khositashvili from Georgia (19:14) before he lost to the Russian Maxim Koptjakow (15:18) in the final . In a comparison match against Germany in the same year, he defeated Stefan Härtel 12:11. At the 2011 World Championships in Baku, however, he was eliminated in the preliminary round with an 11:13 decision against Härtel.

In order to still be able to participate in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London , he started at the European qualification in Trabzon . He defeated Aljaž Venko from Slovenia 15: 4 in the preliminary round, this time also Maxim Koptjakow +13: 13 and in the semifinals Davide Faraci from Switzerland 18: 6. In the final he would have met the Englishman Anthony Ogogo . This could not start due to injury, which is why Kılıççı was awarded as the winner of the tournament.

In the subsequent Olympic Games, he defeated the Turkmen Nursahat Pasijew 14: 7 and the Serbs Aleksandar Drenovak 20:11. The entry into the semifinals and thus a secure bronze medal, he missed by a 13:17 defeat against the eventual Olympic champion Ryota Murata .

In June 2013, Kılıççı won the Mediterranean Games in Mersin . He prevailed against the French Rachid Hamani, the Italian Luca Capuano and the Egyptian Hosam Bakr Abdin . After qualifying for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro through AIBA Pro Boxing , he was banned from the Games in 2012 because of a subsequently proven doping offense.

AIBA Pro Boxing

In January 2015, Kılıççı won the middleweight AIBA Pro Boxing Tournament in Azerbaijan, which for the first time offered professional boxers the opportunity to qualify for the Summer Olympics . He defeated Marlo Delgado from Ecuador, Hosam Bakr Abdin from Egypt, Michel Tavares from France and Artyom Chebotaryov from Russia. This was the third time that Kılıççı qualified for the Olympic Games after 2008 and 2012.

Others

In 2017 and 2018 he was a participant in the reality TV show Survivor Türkiye .

Web links

• Athlete profile at AIBA
• Athlete Profile, London 2012