Atagün Yalçınkaya

Atagün Yalçınkaya
Data
Birth Name	Atagün Yalçınkaya
Weight class	Bantamweight
nationality	Turkish
birthday	December 14, 1986
place of birth	Ankara
size	1.68 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	4th
Victories	4th
Knockout victories	4th
Defeats	0

Atagün Yalçınkaya medal table
Boxing
Turkey
Olympic games
silver	2004	Light flyweight
Mediterranean Games
gold	2005	Flyweight

Atagün Yalçınkaya (born December 14, 1986 in Ankara ) is a former Turkish boxer . At the age of 17 he won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He also became the youngest Olympic medalist in Turkish sports history to date.

Boxing career

Atagün Yalçınkaya was seven-time Turkish champion, won the gold medal at the 2003 European Schoolchildren Championships in Rome and also the gold medal at the 2003 European Cadet Championships in Kaunas .

At the 2004 European Championships in Pula he was eliminated in the preliminary round against Pál Bedák and took part in the "Chowdhry Cup" in Baku , the European Olympic qualification tournament, where he defeated Kelvin de la Nieve , Heorhij Tschyhajew and Veaceslav Gojan , with which he himself qualified for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens . At the Olympics he defeated Jolly Katongole, Ceyhun Abiyev, Alfonso Pinto and the reigning European and World Champion Sergei Kasakow , before he lost to Yan Barthelemí in the final 16:21 and thus won the silver medal. For this success he was voted Turkish Sportsman of the Year at the Milliyet Sports Awards in 2004.

In 2005 he still won the gold medal at the Mediterranean Games in Almería and the Ahmet Cömert Tournament in Istanbul by beating Samir Məmmədov in the final . At the 2005 World Championships in Mianyang , he defeated Andrzej Rżany , but was eliminated in the round of 16 against Georgi Balakschin .

At the European Championships in 2006 in Plovdiv he was defeated in the preliminary round against Stewart Langley.

From March 2008 to December 2008 he boxed as a professional for the Arena Boxing Promotion under Ahmet Öner and won each of his four fights early.

Next to and after boxing

Yalçınkaya is a graduate of Gazi Üniversitesi in Ankara and after his competitive career worked as a boxing trainer, among others at the Fenerbahçe SK sports club .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sports Reference
2. ↑ European Schoolchildren Championships 2003
3. ↑ European Cadet Championships 2003
4. ↑ European Championships 2004
5. ↑ Chowdhry Cup 2004
6. ↑ 2004 Olympic Games
7. ↑ Mediterranean Games 2005
8. ↑ Ahmet Cömert Tournament 2005
9. ↑ World Championships 2005
10. ↑ European Championships 2006
11. ↑ BoxRec profile
12. ↑ Atagün Yalçınkaya: "Fenerbahçe is the locomotive of Turkish boxing"