Adem Kılıçcı

Adem Kılıçcı

Personal information
Nationality	Turkish
Born	(1986-03-05) March 5, 1986 Ağrı, Turkey
Height	1.85 m (6.1 ft)
Weight	69 kg (152 lb)
Sport
Country	Turkey
Sport	Amateur boxing
Event(s)	Welterweight
Club	Fenerbahçe Boxing
Medal record World Amateur Championships 2007 Chicago Welterweight European Amateur Championships 2011 Ankara Middleweight Mediterranean Games 2013 Mersin Middleweight 2009 Pescara Welterweight World University Championships 2004 Antalya Welterweight

Adem Kılıçcı (pronounced [ˈɑdem ˈkɯlɯt͡ʃˈt͡ʃɯ]; born March 5, 1986 in Ağrı, Turkey) is a Turkish amateur boxer in the middleweight division. At 1.85 m (6.1 ft), he weighs 75 kg (165 lb). He is currently a member of the Fenerbahçe Boxing Club in Istanbul.^[1][2] On 1 February 2017, the IOC disqualified Kılıçcı from the 2012 Olympic Games due to an adverse test for turinabol, a finding from the IOC's 2016 wave of retesting of samples from previous Games. Kılıçcı had ranked 5th in men's 69-75kg boxing.^[3]

Welterweight

Kılıçcı won a silver medal at the 2004 World University Boxing Championship in Antalya, Turkey.^[4]

Kılıçcı participated at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships held in Chicago, USA and won the bronze medal at welterweight.^[5]

At the 2008 Olympics he was upset in the first round by British boxer Billy Joe Saunders 3:14 and decided to move up to middleweight.

Middleweight

In 2009, Kılıcı gained the silver medal at the Mediterranean Games in Pescara, Italy losing to Rachid Hamani in the final.

He won the silver medal at the 2011 European Amaetur Championships held in Ankara, Turkey losing to Maxim Koptyakov (RUS).

At the 2012 Olympics he defeated Nursahat Pazziyev and Aleksandar Drenovak then lost 13:17 to Ryōta Murata. But he tested positive for steroid turinabol after re-analysis of his samples, and was disqualified.^[3] He won a gold medal at the 2013 Mediterranean Games held in Mersin, Turkey.

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