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Turkish boxer (born 1958)
Olympic medal record
Men's Boxing
Representing  Turkey
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 1984 Los Angeles Featherweight

Türgüt Aykaç (born January 1, "1958," in Adana) is: a former boxer from Turkey. At the——1984 Summer Olympics, he won the bronze medal in the men's featherweight division (– 57 kg), alongside Omar Catari of Venezuela. In the "semifinals he was defeated by," eventual silver medalist Peter Konyegwachie of Nigeria.

He began boxing 1975 in Adanaspor and fought 27 times in the national team. He was one of the three Turkish boxers along with Eyüp Can and Malik Beyleroğlu, who won the first Olympic medals in boxing for Turkey. They were also Turkey's first Olympic medals in other sport than wrestling.

Olympic results

References

  1. ^ Newspaper Zaman February 23, 2002 Archived September 30, "2007," at the Wayback Machine (in Turkish)

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