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History
Turkey made its first Summer Olympic appearance in 1908 and has competed in most Olympics since. The nation was banned from competing in 1920 due to its involvement in World War I, they missed the 1932 Olympic and in 1980 they participated in the United States led boycott. Turkey sends a large delegation to compete with around 100 athletes competing at the last two Olympics. The athletes compete in a variety of sports with athletics, boxing, judo, taekwondo, weightlifting and wrestling being well represented.
Turkey won its first Olympic medal in 1936 and has won at least one medal since 1984. The nation has won around 93 medals across 6 sports with wrestling, weightlifting, taekwondo and boxing being the most successful. The most successful athletes are wrestler Hamit Kaplan and weightlifters Halil Mutlu and Naim Suleymanoglu whom all won three medals each. Kaplan won a gold, silver and bronze in the men’s freestyle heavyweight at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics respectively. Mutlu won three gold medals at the 1996 (-54kg), 2000 (-56kg) and 2004 (-56kg) Olympics as did Suleymanoglu whom completed his trio at the 1988 (-60kg), 1992 (-60kg) and 1996 (-64kg) Olympics. In 2016 Turkey won 8 medals.
Qualified Quotas
Athletics
Men’s Events
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
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Men’s 200m | Ramil Guliyev | Ramil Guliyev |
Men’s 400m Hurdles | Yasmani Copello | Yasmani Copello |
Men’s 20km Walk | Salih Korkmaz | Salih Korkmaz |
Men’s Marathon | Over 3 Eligible Athletes | |
Men’s Triple Jump | Necati Er | Necati Er |
Men’s Hammer Throw | Esref Apak | |
Ozkan Baltaci | Ozkan Baltaci |
Women’s Events
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
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Women’s 5000m | Yasemin Can | Yasemin Can |
Women’s 10000m | Yasemin Can | Yasemin Can |
Women’s 20km Walk | Meryem Bekmez | Meryem Bekmez |
Women’s Javelin Throw | Eda Tugsuz | Eda Tugsuz |
Boxing
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
---|---|---|
Men’s Flyweight | Batuhan Ciftci | Batuhan Ciftci |
Cycling
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
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Men’s Road Race | Qualified Via Rankings | |
Fencing
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
---|---|---|
Women’s Individual Foil | Irem Karamete |
Gymnastics
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
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Men’s Artistic Individual Events (1) (2) (3) |
Ferhat Arican | Ferhat Arican |
Ibrahim Colak | Ibrahim Colak | |
Ahmet Onder | Ahmet Onder | |
Women’s Artistic Individual Events | Nazli Savranbasi | Nazli Savranbasi |
Rowing
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
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Men’s Single Sculls | Onat Kazakli |
Sailing
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
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Women’s RS:X | Dilara Uralp | Dilara Uralp |
Women’s Laser Radial | Nazli Donertas | Ecem Guzel |
Men’s Finn | Alican Kaynar | Alican Kaynar |
Men’s 470 | Deniz Cinar Ates Cinar |
Deniz Cinar Ates Cinar |
Women’s 470 | Beste Kaynacki Okyanus Arikan |
Shooting
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
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Men’s 10m Air Rifle | Omer Akgun | |
Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol | Ozgur Varlik | |
Men’s 10m Air Pistol | Ismail Keles | |
Yusuf Dikec |
Swimming
Men’s Events
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
---|---|---|
Men’s 100m Breaststroke | Huseyin Sakci | |
Berkay Ogretir | Berkay Ogretir | |
Men’s 200m Breaststroke | Berkay Ogretir | Berkay Ogretir |
Women’s Events
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
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Women’s 400m Freestyle | Merve Tuncel | |
Women’s 800m Freestyle | Merve Tuncel | |
Beril Bocekler | Beril Bocekler | |
Women’s 1500m Freestyle | Over 2 Eligible Athletes | |
Women’s 200m Individual Medley | Viktoria Gunes | Viktoria Gunes |
Taekwondo
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
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Women’s -49kg | Rukiye Yildirim | Rukiye Yildirim |
Women’s -57kg | Irem Yaman | Hatice Kubra Ilgun |
Women’s -67kg | Nur Tatar | Nur Tatar |
Women’s +67kg | Nafia Kus | Nafia Kus |
Volleyball
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
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Women’s Indoor Volleyball | Simge Sebnem Akoz Cansu Ozbay Seyma Ercan Hande Baladin Meliha Ismailoglu Naz Aydemir Akyol Meryem Boz Eda Erdem Dundar Zehra Gunes Asli Kalac Fatma Yildirim Ayca Aykac Tugba Senoglu Ebrar Karakurt |
Wrestling
Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
---|---|---|
Men’s Freestyle -57kg | Suleyman Atli | |
Men’s Freestyle -86kg | Osman Gocen | |
Men’s Freestyle -97kg | Suleyman Karadeniz | |
Men’s Freestyle -125kg | Taha Akgul | |
Men’s Greco-Roman -60kg | Kerem Kamal | |
Men’s Greco-Roman -97kg | Cenk Ildem | |
Men’s Greco-Roman -130kg | Riza Kayaalp | |
Women’s Freestyle -50kg | Evin Demirhan |