Serhat Balcı

Serhat Balcı (born March 15, 1982 in Istanbul ) is a Turkish wrestler , Olympic participant and multiple medalist at European championships in free style.

Career

Serhat Balcı began wrestling as a teenager in 1994. He concentrated entirely on the free style. He is a member of the Amasya Sekerspor sports club and is coached by Cahit Ahiskalioglu and Enis Çakıroğlu. The 1.78 meter tall athlete is a physical education teacher.

Serhat Balcı's international career began at the age of 16 when he became Junior World Champion in the Cadets age group in Manchester . i. up to the age of 16. The following year he came in the same age group at the World Championships in Łódź on the 3rd place. In the next age group, the juniors, he finished only 7th at the 2000 European Junior Championship in Nantes . At the end of his junior years he was again junior European middleweight champion in Tirana in 2002 .

As a junior he already competed in the weight classes up to 83 kg or 85 kg body weight. He held this weight limit until 2008. It was not until 2009 that he moved to the next higher weight class, the light heavyweight, which has its weight limit of 96 kg.

Serhat Balcı started in the senior class for the first time in 2002 at an international championship. He came in 7th place at the European Middleweight Championships in Baku . He was used that year at the World Cup in Tehran , but reached there after a victory over Alexei Mastepanow from Belarus and a defeat against the Bulgarian Arkadij Zopa only the 16th place.

At the European Championships in Riga in 2009 he had to be satisfied with 9th place in the middleweight division. For the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , he could not qualify.

He won his first medal at an international championship at the 2005 European Championships in Varna . He won over Thomas Bucheli from Switzerland , Naurus Temresow from Russia and David Bichinashvili from Germany , whom he won 6: 3 techn. Could defeat points. In the final he was defeated by the Ukrainian Taras Danko on points. At the World Cup this year in Budapest he won against Abdul Amayev from Uzbekistan, but retired after a defeat against Taras Danko and came in 15th.

In 2006 he was used at the World Championships in Guangzhou . He defeated the former world champion Árpád Ritter from Hungary and Magomed Kuruglijew from Kazakhstan , but had to admit defeat to Taras Danko , who managed a narrow 2-0 point win. He came in 11th place. At the Military World Cup in Baku in 2006, he came in second behind Georgi Ketojew from Russia.

In 2007 he won at the European Middleweight Championships in Sofia with victories over Miroslaw Geschew from Bulgaria, Marc Buschle from Germany and Leri Ketishvili from Georgia , the brother of Georgi Ketojew, the bronze medal . Taras Danko prevented him from entering the final . At the 2007 World Cup in Baku , Serhat Balcı achieved three wins. But he lost against Yusup Abdussalomow from Tajikistan and in the fight for 3rd place against Zaurbek Sochiew from Uzbekistan and came in 5th place.

2008 Serhat Balcı remained both at the European Championships in Tampere and at the Olympic Games in Beijing without a medal. In Tampere he lost his second fight against the Russian Naurus Temresow starting for Azerbaijan and came in 8th place and in Beijing he lost after two wins against Yusup Abdussalomov in the fight for the bronze medal against Taras Danko , which he ended up in 5th place .

At the European Championships in 2009 in Vilnius , he started in the light heavyweight division for the first time in order to avoid constant training. Although he lost in the semifinals against Chetag Gasjumow from Azerbaijan, he won the fight for the bronze medal over Nicolai Cerban from Moldova . At the 2009 World Cup in Herning / Denmark , Serhat Balci failed again in the semifinals to Chetag Gasjumow. But he managed to win the bronze medal at the World Championships with victories over Nicolai Cerban and Rouslan Scheikow from Belarus.

International success

year	space	event	Weight class
1998	1.	Junior World Championships (Cadets) in Manchester	up to 83 kg body weight	before Ibragim Magomedow, Russia a . Mikhail Bagauri, Georgia
1999	3.	Junior World Championships (Cadets) in Łódź	up to 85 kg body weight	behind Murschan Katajew, Kazakhstan u. Chisri Chupanow, Azerbaijan
2000	5.	Junior European Championship (Juniors) in Sofia	medium	behind Saschid Saschidow , Russia, Arkadij Zopa , Bulgaria , Maxim Kerschkowski, Belarus u. Mateusz Gucman, Poland
2000	7th	Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Nantes	medium	Winner: Saschid Saschidow ahead of Shahib Ghorbani, Iran a . Taras Danko , Ukraine
2000	5.	Universities World Cup in Tokyo	medium	behind Cael Sanderson , USA , Majid Khodaee, Iran, Alexei Kasiew, Russia a. Tamasz Kiss, Hungary
2002	1.	"Yasar Dogu" memorial in Ankara	medium	before Nuri Zengin u. Osman Ozgün, bde. Turkey
2002	7th	EM in Baku	medium	Winner: Saschid Saschidow in front of Beibulat Musajew, Belarus a. Revas Mindorashvili , Georgia
2002	1.	Junior European Championship in Tirana	medium	in front of Taimuraz Kotschiew, Russia, Tero Pekkiö, Finland a . Gergely Kiss, Hungary
2002	16.	World Cup in Tehran	medium	with a victory over Alexei Mastepanow, Belarus a. a loss to Arkadij Zopa
2003	9.	EM in Riga	medium	Winner: Rewas Mindoraschwili ahead of Mohamed Agajew, Armenia a . Vadim Laliev , Russia
2005	1.	"Yasar Dogu" memorial in Ankara	medium	before Jussup Abdussalomow , Tajikistan , M. Mohammadi, Iran a. Fahretin Ozata, Turkey
2005	2.	EM in Varna	medium	with victories over Thomas Bucheli , Switzerland , Naurus Temresow , Russia a. David Bichinashvili , Germany a . a loss to Taras Danko
2005	1.	Mediterranean Games in Almería	medium	before Lazaro Loizidis , Greece a . Anthony Fasugba, Italy
2005	15th	World Cup in Budapest	medium	with a victory over Abdul Amayev, Uzbekistan a . a loss to Taras Danko
2005	3.	CISM Military World Cup in Vilnius	medium	behind David Bichinashvili u. Magomed Kuruglijew , Kazakhstan
2006	11.	World Cup in Guangzhou / China	medium	with victories over Árpád Ritter , Hungary a. Magomed Kuruglijew u. a loss to Taras Danko
2006	2.	CISM Military World Cup in Baku	medium	behind Georgi Ketojew , Russia, in front of Soslan Gatschiew, Belarus a. Marc Buschle , Germany
2007	1.	"Yasar Dogu" memorial in Ankara	medium	before David Bichinashvili, Fatih Koyuncu u. Abdullah Güngör, bde. Turkey
2007	3.	EM in Sofia	medium	with victories over Miroslaw Geschew , Bulgaria a. Marc Buschle, a defeat against Taras Danko u. a victory over Leri Ketichvili , Georgia
2007	5.	World Cup in Baku	medium	with victories over Sergei Kolesnikow , Israel , Miroslaw Geschew a. Gennadi Lalijew , Kazakhstan a. Defeats against Yusup Abdussalomow a. Zaurbek Sochiew, Uzbekistan
2008	2.	"Yasar Dogu" memorial in Ankara	medium	behind Hamed Tatari, Iran, in front of Naurus Temresow, Azerbaijan a. Ali Imamoglu, Turkey
2008	8th.	EM in Tampere	medium	with a victory over Daniel Kennedy, Ireland a . a loss to Naurus Temresow
2008	2.	Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid	medium	behind Anzor Boltukajew, Russia, in front of Aloazar Eslami, Iran u. Gergely Kiss
2008	5.	OS in Beijing	medium	with victories over Travis Cross, USA a. Reineri Sala, Cuba , u. Defeats against Yusup Abdussalomow a. Taras Danko
2009	3.	EM in Vilnius	Semi-difficult	with a victory over Andreas Pieri, Cyprus , a defeat against Chetag Gasjumow , Azerbaijan u. Victories over Dániel Ligeti , Hungary a. Nicolai Cerban , Moldova
2009	3.	World Cup in Herning / Denmark	Semi-difficult	with victories over Radoslaw Baran, Poland a . Mohammad Suhail, Iraq , a loss to Chetag Gasjumow a. Wins over Nicolai Cerban u. Rouslan Sheikov , Belarus
2009	1.	Henri Deglane Challenge in Nice	Semi-difficult	before Muslin Saypoulajew, France, Joseg Jaloviar, Slovakia a. Andrea Massida, France
2010	2.	"Yasar Dogu" Memorial in Istanbul	Semi-difficult	behind Chetag Gasjumow, in front of David Kurschwili, Georgia a. Salih Erinc, Turkey

Note: all competitions in free style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, middleweight, until 2001 up to 85 kg, from 2002 up to 84 kg, light heavyweight up to 96 kg

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• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig,
• Trade journal Der Ringer ,
• US Wrestling Association database,
• Website "www.guresdosyasi.com

Web links

• Profile of Serhat Balcı at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Serhat Balcı in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )