Bilal Ciloglu Judoka

Bilal Ciloglu

Country:Turkey
Born:16 June 1998 (21 years)
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Turkish judoka Bilal Ciloglu won the World Junior title in 2018 and took silverin 2017. Bilal won European Championships bronze in 2018 in Tel Aviv. He became European Cadet Champion U18 in 2015. He won bronze at the European Junior Championships in 2015. Ciloglu took gold at the European Cup in Sarajevo in 2016. He took a bronze medal at European U23 Championships in 2017 held in Podgorica. He won the Grand Slam in Abu Dhabi in 2019 and clinched bronze at the Grand Prix in Tashkent.

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Judo in the time of Covid-19: Bilal Ciloglu

5 May 2020 14:40

Perhaps the biggest talent of Turkey ever, Bilal Ciloglu became Junior World Champion in 2018 and for sure he will qualify for the Games, but he wants more, why not in 2021. Turkey closed quite late for the coronacrisis, Oon Yeoh of JudoCrazy asked him how he is doing and all about his ambitions and weapons. Read more

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Super talent Bilal Ciloglu claims first Grand Slam for Turkey

25 Oct 2019 18:25

Bilal Ciloglu produced the best display of his young career as he defeated world number eight Arthur Margelidon (CAN) to claim the U73kg title in Abu Dhabi and became the first Turkish man to win Grand Slam gold. The world number 17 from Turkey, who was in his first Grand Slam final, came up with the only score in the first men’s final of the day as he caught Margelidon with a ko-uchi-gake for a waza-ari score with 20 seconds left on the clock. Read more

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Khikmatillokh Turaev defends Tashkent gold with success

21 Sep 2019 16:05

Once Khikmatillokh Turaev proved to be the strongest in his category U73kg with a victory at the home Grand Prix in Tashkent where he prolonged his title and defeated Behruzi Khojazoda (TJK) in the final. Despite the support of the entire public, the Uzbek seemed very quickly helpless against the ardor of the Tajik who thanks to a superb ippon-ko-uchi-gari, scoring waza-ari, took the lead of the final. Read more

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Shohei Ono looks concentrated, Azeri men eager to stunt

27 Aug 2019 11:25

In the Preliminaries at the World Championships in Tokyo not so many surprises in the men;s U73kg. Most of the favourites qualified or simply had tough opponents. In pool C opt favourite and Olympic champion Shohei Ono Shohei breezed into the last four with an effortless display as he won all four of his bouts by ippon. Read more

The 5 biggest male judo breakthroughs of 2018

27 Dec 2018 15:35

Who are the ten groundbreaking talents who really emerged this year, at any level? We closely watched judoka born from 1998 onwards. Some of the most absolutely amazing stars of this year, such as Sherazadishvili, Igolnikov or Gjakova had already experienced their breakthroughs, but nonetheless had their best year ever and are expected to develop further. Read more