Nurhan Süleymanoğlu
Nurhan Süleymanoğlu is a Kazakhstan-born Turkish former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2007.
As an amateur, he participated at the 1996 Summer Olympics, where he was stopped in the second round of the light welterweight division by Cuba's Héctor Vinent. At the 2000 Summer Olympics he was stopped in the second round by Belarus' Sergey Bykovsky.
Süleymanoğlu won silver medals in the same division at the 1995 World Championships and the 1996 European Championships, as well as a gold medal at the 1993 European Championships.
Amateur highlights
- 1993: World Championships in Tampere, Finland as a Light Welterweight:
- *Defeated Vukasin Dobrasinovic 12-2
- *Lost to Hector Vinent RSC 2
- 1993: 1st place at Mediterranean Games in Narbonne, France as a Light Welterweight:
- *Defeated Fathi Missaoui points
- *Defeated Nordine Mouchi points
- *Defeated Laureano Leyva 4-2
- 1993: Winner at the European Championships in Bursa, Turkey as a Light Welterweight:
- *Defeated Jason Williams 14-3
- *Defeated Peter Richardson 8-5
- *Defeated Nordine Mouchi 10-6
- *Defeated Armen Gevorkian 12-3
- *Defeated Oktay Urkal 5-2
- 1995: 2nd place at World Championships in Berlin, Germany as a Light Welterweight:
- *Defeated Zoran Didanovic 8-4
- *Defeated Besik Vardzelashvili 5-8
- *Defeated Bulat Niazymbetov 9-4
- *Defeated Oktay Urkal 10-3
- *Lost to Hector Vinent 4-7
- 1996: 2nd place at European Championships in Vejle, Denmark as a Light Weltwerweight:
- *Defeated Gabriel Oida 14-12
- *Defeated Joszef Matolcsi 5-0
- *Defeated Nordine Mouchi 11-8
- *Defeated Radoslav Suslekov 6-4
- *Lost to Oktay Urkal 4-6
- 1996: Represented Turkey at the Olympic Games in Atlanta as a Light Welterweight:
- *Defeated Aboubacar Diallo 21-5
- *Lost to Hector Vinent 1-23
- 1997: Competed in the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary as a Light Welterewight:
- *Lost to Benameur Meskine 3-5
- 1998: 2nd place at European Championships in Minsk, Belarus as a Light Welterweight:
- *Defeated Mehmet Erarslan 8-2
- *Defeated Jacek Bielski 8-2
- *Defeated Sergey Bykovsky 6-3
- *Lost to Dorel Simion 3-9
- 1999: Competed at the World Championships in Houston, United States as a Welterweight:
- *Lost to Lucian Bute 5-9
- 2000: 3rd place at European Championships in Tampere, Finland as a Light Welterweight:
- *Defeated Spiridon Ioanidis 6-3
- *Defeated Mariusz Cendrowski 6-2
- *Lost to Alex Leonev 6-11
- 2000: Represented Turkey at the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia as a Light Welterweight:
- *Defeated Michael Strange 9-3
- *Lost to Sergey Bykovsky 38-40