Hüseyin Özkan
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| Gold | 2000 Sydney | -66 kg |
Hüseyin Özkan (born January 20, 1972) is a Turkish judoka. At the 2000 Summer Olympics held in Sydney, Australia, he won the gold medal in the men's Half Lightweight (60-66 kg) category. He became so the first sportsman to win an Olympics gold medal for Turkey in judo.
He was born in Chechnya, in the northern Caucasus of the former USSR, and grew up with his 9 siblings. He began judo in his hometown and continued in Turkey, where he moved at his age of 20.
[edit] Achievements
- 1993 European Judo Championships - bronze
- 1997 European Judo Championships - gold
- 1999 European Judo Championships - silver
- 1999 World Judo Championships - silver
- 2000 Olympics - gold
[edit] References
- Olympics Database
- Newspaper Milliyet (Turkish)
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