Selçuk Can

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Selçuk Can (born 10 August 1995) is a Turkish Greco-Roman wrestler. He won the gold medal at the 2024 European Wrestling Championships.{{Cite web|url=https://uww.org/athletes-results/selcuk-can-4336-profile|title=Selcuk Can profile page|website=uww.org}}

Career

He won one of the bronze medals in the 72{{nbsp}}kg event at the 2020 European Wrestling Championships held in Rome, Italy.{{Cite news|last=Etchells|first=Daniel|url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1090467/armenia-golds-european-wrestling-champs|title=Armenia claim two Greco-Roman titles on day three of European Wrestling Championships|date=12 February 2020|work=InsideTheGames.biz|access-date=13 February 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2020-02/eucs-rome-final-book_1.pdf|title=2020 European Wrestling Championships Results|website=United World Wrestling|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412124934/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2020-02/eucs-rome-final-book_1.pdf|archive-date=12 April 2020|access-date=12 April 2020}} In 2021, he won the silver medal in the 72 kg event at the Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series 2021 held in Rome, Italy.{{Cite web|title=Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series 2021|url=https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/final-book_matteo_pellicone_2021.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210321221706/https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/final-book_matteo_pellicone_2021.pdf|archive-date=21 March 2021|access-date=21 March 2021|website=United World Wrestling}} He won the gold medal in his event at the 2022 Vehbi Emre & Hamit Kaplan Tournament held in Istanbul, Turkey.{{Cite web|url=https://www.trtspor.com.tr/haber/diger-sporlar/gures/grekoromen-gures-milli-takimindan-15-madalya-250817.html|title = Grekoromen Güreş Milli Takımı'ndan 15 madalya}}

In 2023, he won one of the bronze medals in the men's 72 kg event at the 2023 European Wrestling Championships held in Zagreb, Croatia. Starting from the qualifying round, Selçuk Can defeated Hungarian Róbert Fritsch 7-1 to reach the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals, he defeated German Michael Widmayer 6-0 and progressed to the semifinals. In the semifinals, he defeated his Azerbaijani opponent Ulvu Ganizade 2-1 and reached the bronze medal match. In the bronze medal match, Can defeated Ukrainian Andrii Kulyk 5-1 and won the bronze medal.{{cite web | url=https://www.iha.com.tr/istanbul-haberleri/selcuk-can-bronz-madalya-kazandi-4296388/ | title=Selçuk Can bronz madalya kazandı }}

He competed at the 2024 European Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan hoping to qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.{{Cite web |title=2024 European Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament Results Book |url=https://cdn.uww.org/2024-04/final-book-seniors_european_og_qualifier.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240408164811/https://cdn.uww.org/2024-04/final-book-seniors_european_og_qualifier.pdf |archive-date=8 April 2024 |access-date=8 April 2024 |website=United World Wrestling}} He was eliminated in his third match and he did not qualify for the Olympics. He also competed at the 2024 World Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Istanbul, Turkey without qualifying for the Olympics.{{Cite web |title=2024 World Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament Results Book |url=https://cdn.uww.org/2024-05/results_05_istanbul_qt.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240514204605/https://cdn.uww.org/2024-05/results_05_istanbul_qt.pdf |archive-date=14 May 2024 |access-date=14 May 2024 |website=United World Wrestling}}