Adem Kılıççı

Adem Kılıççı — Biography

Adem Kılıççı is a boxer who competed at two Olympic Games and a two-time winner of the Turkish edition of Survivor. As an athlete of the Fenerbahçe boxing section he won medals at world, European and Mediterranean Games level, and on television he reached a wide audience through his Survivor appearances. By winning the 2018 and 2025 seasons he became one of three contestants to win the competition more than once.

He was interested in boxing from his youth, was educated in Ağrı, studied at Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University and began working with the Fenerbahçe boxing team in 2004. He took silver at the 2004 World University Boxing Championship in Antalya and bronze at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Chicago. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics he lost 14-3 in the first round to Britain's Billy Joe Saunders, and after that moved up to middleweight. His middleweight years are remembered for silver at the 2009 Mediterranean Games, silver at the 2011 European Championships in Ankara and gold at the 2013 Mediterranean Games in Mersin; at the 2012 London Olympics he won two rounds and lost the quarter-final to Japan's Ryota Murata. In 2014-15 he became world champion in AIBA's APB professional boxing league.

His television career began in 2017 with Survivor, where he reached the final and finished second. In the 2018 All Star season he beat Nagihan Karadere to win, in 2022 he again reached the final and finished second, and he won the 2025 All Star season. In 2019 he opened a gym called Sportial.