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Selçuk Aydın
Medal record
Representing  Turkey
Men’s Boxing
European Amateur Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2002 Perm Lightweight
Silver medal – second place 2004 Pula Lightweight
EU Amateur Championships
Gold medal – first place 2003 Strasbourg Lightweight
Silver medal – second place 2004 Madrid Lightweight
Silver medal – second place 2006 Pécs Lightweight
Mediterranean Games
Silver medal – second place 2005 Almeira, Spain Lightweight

Selcuk Aydin (Turkish: Selçuk Aydın) (born September 4, 1983) is a Turkish boxer best known to win several medals in European amateur championships.

Amateur

As an amateur he fought as a teenager at bantamweight where he won the European U17 title in 1999 and as a grown-up in the lightweight (60 kg) category where he won the European junior title in 2001.

As a senior he won bronze in 2002 and a silver medal at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Pula, Croatia where he lost to Dimitar Stilianov. 2003 at the world championships he lost his second fight against Thai Pichai Sayotha.

Aydın won the 2004 World University Boxing Championships and also participated at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece but was eliminated in the first round again by Dimitar Stilianov.

He was more successful at the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Almería, Spain and won the silver medal, at the world championships 2005 he lost his third bout to Jong Sub-Baik. The short-tempered Aydin was suspended for several years after hitting a referee and turned pro.

Pro

The aggressive boxer-puncher turned pro in 2006 at junior welterweight in Germany and won his first 12 bouts against nondescript opposition.