Yakup Kılıç is a Turkish

Turkey

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 boxer in the featherweight

Featherweight

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 (57 kg) discipline. He is member of Istanbul

Istanbul

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 Fenerbahçe Boxing

Fenerbahçe Boxing

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 Club.

Career

Kılıç participated at the 2005 Mediterranean Games

Turkey at the 2005 Mediterranean Games

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 in Almería

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, Spain

Spain

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 and won bronze medal

Bronze medal

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. He boxed another bronze medal at the 2009 Mediterranean Games

2009 Mediterranean Games

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 in Pescara

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, Italy

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.

At the European Championships 2006 he lost his first bout against Irish Eric Donovan 29:33.

At the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships

2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships

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 held in Chicago, USA, he won a bronze medal
and qualified for the 2008 Olympics.
He did so by beating Arash Usmanee of Canada

Canada

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 by a slim one point margin 20-19.

At the Olympics 2008 he lost his semifinal to Vasyl Lomachenko

Vasyl Lomachenko

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 and won Bronze.

Olympic Games results

2008 (as a featherweight)

• 1st round bye
• Defeated Satoshi Shimizu
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   (Japan) 12-9
• Defeated Abdelkader Chadi
  Abdelkader Chadi
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   (Algeria) 13-6
• Lost to Vasyl Lomachenko
  Vasyl Lomachenko
  Vasyl Anatoliyovich Lomachenko is a Ukrainian amateur boxer who won the silver medal at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships, a gold medal at the 2009 World Amateur Boxing Championships and the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in the featherweight division. Lomachenko is coached by...
  
   (Ukraine) 1-10

World Championships results

2005 (as a featherweight)

• Defeated Aboubaker Seddik Lbida (Morocco) 29-20
• Lost to Berik Serikbayev (Kazakhstan) 25-29

2007 (as a featherweight)

• Defeated Pablo Figuls (Costa Rica) RSCO 3
• Defeated Arash Usmanee (Canada) 20-19
• Defeated Sailom Ardee (Thailand) 22-13
• Lost to Albert Selimov
  Albert Selimov
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  (Russia) walk-over (placed 3rd)