Orhan Delibaş
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Silver | 1992 Barcelona | Light Middleweight |
Orhan Delibaş (born January 28, 1971 in Kayseri, Turkey) was a Turkish boxer, who competed for the Netherlands and won the Light Middleweight Silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics. A year later, he captured the silver medal once again at the 1993 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Bursa, Turkey.
Delibaş began his professional career in 1995, under his nickname The Turkish Delight, and won his first 22 bouts in the middleweight division. His first loss was to contender Mamadou Thiam in a TKO in the 8th round. In 2000, he took on future titleist Roman Karmazin and lost in a TKO 3 after he failed to come out of his corner.