Akın Kuloğlu
| Akın Kuloğlu medal table |
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 Turkey
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| World Championship | ||
| bronze | 1999 Houston | medium weight |
| silver | 1993 Tampere | medium weight |
| European Championship | ||
| bronze | 1993 Bursa | medium weight |
| Mediterranean Games | ||
| gold | 1993 Narbonne | medium weight |
Akın Kuloğlu (born February 6, 1972 in Kutaisi , Georgian SSR ; † August 20, 2001 in Chicago , USA ) was a Turkish boxer of Georgian origin. He was born as Akaki Kakauridze ( Georgian აკაკი კაკაურიძე ).
The tall (1.95 m) middleweight (up to 75 kg) became vice world champion in May 1993 after he beat Kestutis Dsedarawicius from Lithuania (3: 1), Ahmed Dine from Algeria (5: 3) at the World Championships in Tampere. , Andreas Bredler from Sweden (knockout) and Wassili Schirow from Kazakhstan (9: 2) and only lost 7: 9 in the final against Ariel Hernández from Cuba. The following month he also won the gold medal at the Mediterranean Games in Narbonne . He defeated the Italian Raffaele Bergamasco and in the semifinals the Greek Ioannis Kokkolis on points, and in the final the Tunisian Muhammed Lassoued by knockout in the first round. In September of the same year, he achieved a bronze medal at the European Championships in Bursa . After victories against Ľudovít Plachetka from the Czech Republic (10: 5) and Zsolt Erdei from Hungary (knockout), he was eliminated in the semifinals against Alexander Lebsjak from Russia (3:12).
Another bronze medal followed in August 1999 at the World Championships in Houston , after he had defeated Jerson Ravelo, USA (knockout), Ladislav Kutil, Czech Republic (4: 0) and Vyacheslav Burba, Kazakhstan (6: 1) and only in Semi-final against Adrian Diaconu , Romania (2:10) lost. So he had qualified for the Summer Olympics in Sydney , where he reached the quarter-finals against Mariano Carrera , Argentina (knockout) and Jung-Bin Lim, South Korea (knockout). In the fight for a place in the semifinals and thus sure to win a medal, he missed by an 8:18 point defeat against Vüqar Ələkbərov , Azerbaijan.
Akın Kuloğlu died in 2001 while driving a taxi in a traffic accident in the USA.
Web links
- Akın Kuloğlu in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
- Profile at The Sports
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kuloğlu, Akın |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kakauridze, Akaki |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish boxer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kutaisi , Georgian SSR |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 20, 2001 |
| Place of death | Chicago , USA |