Soner Karagöz

Soner Karagöz medal table
Boxing
Turkey
World Championship
bronze	1997 Budapest	Bantamweight
Mediterranean Games
gold	1997 Bari	Bantamweight
gold	1991 Athens	Flyweight

Soner Karagöz (born January 3, 1972 ) is a former Turkish boxer.

The 1.64 m tall bantamweight (up to 54 kg) won the Mediterranean Games in Athens in 1991 and the 1997 Mediterranean Games in Bari . At the World Championships in Budapest in 1997, he was only eliminated in the semi-finals against Waldemar Font from Cuba and won a bronze medal. He also won several international tournaments, including the 42nd Strandja tournament in Bulgaria in 1991 and the 10th Ahmet Cömert tournament in Turkey in 1995.

In 1996 he represented his home country in bantamweight at the Olympic Summer Games in Atlanta , where he was eliminated in the first fight against István Kovács from Hungary and thus finished 17th.

Further results at major international events;

• 1990 Junior World Championships in Lima , defeat in the preliminary round against Joseph Zabakly, Australia
• 1991 European Championships in Gothenburg , defeat in the round of 16 against Daniel Petrow , Bulgaria
• 1991 World Championships in Sydney , defeat in the preliminary round against Choi Chol-su , North Korea
• 1995 World Championships in Berlin , defeat in the preliminary round against Zoltan Lunka , Germany
• 1996 European Championships in Vejle , defeat in the quarterfinals against John Larbi, Sweden
• 1998 European Championships in Minsk , defeat in the quarter-finals against Marian Alexandru, Romania

Web links

• Soner Karagoz in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
• Website; amateur-boxing.strefa.pl