Atagün Yalçınkaya

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Medal record
Men's Boxing
Olympic Games
Silver	2004 Athens, Greece	Light flyweight
Mediterranean Games
Gold	2005 Almeria, Spain	Flyweight

Atagün Yalçınkaya (born December 14, 1986 in Altındağ district of Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish boxer in the bantamweight(54kg) division best known to sensationally winning silver at light-flyweight at the 2004 Olympics.

[edit] Amateur

He started boxing very early and won six titles in the schoolboys and cadets categories in Turkey.

He was successful as a teenager at international tournaments, in 2003 with a 1st place in Balaton Tournament in Hungary, a 3rd place in Green Hill Cup, Pakistan and a 1st place in European Students Boxing championship, Italy.

He competed at light-flyweight in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece and won a silver medal for Turkey on August 29, 2004 by beating Alfonso Pinto and reigning worldchamp Sergey Kazakov. With his age of 17, he was the youngest medal-wining sportsman in the Turkish Olympics history

Defeated Jolly Katongole (Uganda) 22-7
Defeated Jeyhun Abiyev (Azerbaijan) 23-20
Defeated Alfonso Pinto (Italy) 33-24
Defeated Sergey Kazakov (Russia) 26-20
Lost to Yan Bhartelemy Varela (Cuba) 16-21

He went up to flyweight (51 kg) afterwards and won the Mediterranean Games in Almeria, Spain at the 2005 world championships (Mianyang, China) he defeated Andrzej Rzany (Poland) 20-13 but lost to Georgy Balakshin (Russia) 15-36.

At the European Championships 2006 he lost early to Englishman Stuart Langley.

Later he competed at bantamweight [1].

Yalçınkaya, 1.65 m tall, is a member of Fenerbahçe SK^[1] and is coached by Enver Yilmaz.