- Orhan Delibaş
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Orhan Delibaş Personal information Born January 28, 1971 Medal recordMen's Boxing Competitor for the Netherlands Olympic Games Silver 1992 Barcelona Light Middleweight European Amateur Championships Silver 1993 Bursa Light Middleweight Orhan Delibaş (born January 28, 1971 in Kayseri, Turkey) is a retired Dutch boxer. He 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.
Amateur Highlights
- 1991 competed as a Light-Middleweight at World Championships in Sydney, Australia
- Lost to Torsten Schmitz (Germany) 14-18
- 1992 captured the silver medal, representing the Netherlands as a Light-Middleweight at the Olympic Games in Barcelona
- Defeated Ki-Soo Choi (South Korea) 3-0
- Defeated Chalit Boonsingkarn (Thailand) TKO 2
- Defeated Raúl Márquez (United States) 16-12
- Defeated Robin Reid (Great Britain) 8-3
- Lost to Juan Carlos Lemus (Cuba) 1-6
- 1993 competed as a Light-Middleweight at World Championships in Tampere, Finland
- Defeated Hee-Joon Kim (South Korea) points
- Defeated Vahe Kocharian (Armenia) points
- Lost to Francisc Vastag (Romania) points
- 1993 2nd place as a Light-Middleweight at European Championships in Bursa, Turkey
- Defeated Mamouka Khoutouashvili (Georgia) DQ 3
- Defeated R. Sarganessian (Armenia) points
- Defeated Bert Schenk (Germany) points
- Lost to Francisc Vastag (Romania) points
- 1994 Light-Middleweight Bronze Medalist at Goodwill Games in St. Petersburg, Russia
- Defeated Malik Beyleroğlu (Turkey) points
- Lost to Sergey Karavayev (Russia) points
- 1995 Light-Middleweight Champion at World Military Championships
Pro career
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.
External links
- Professional boxing record for Orhan Delibaş from BoxRec
Categories:- 1971 births
- Dutch boxers
- Turkish boxers
- Boxers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers of the Netherlands
- Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
- Living people
- Dutch people of Turkish descent
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Dutch sportspeople stubs
- European boxing biography stubs
- Dutch Olympic medalist stubs
- 1991 competed as a Light-Middleweight at World Championships in Sydney, Australia
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