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
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	Ozkan Baltaci	Ozkan Baltaci

Women’s Events

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
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

Cycling

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s Road Race	Qualified Via Rankings

Gymnastics

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
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

Karate

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s +75kg	Ugur Aktas
Men’s Kata	Ali Sofuoglu
Women’s -55kg	Serap Ozcelik
Women’s -61kg	Merve Coban
Women’s +61kg	Meltem Hocaouglu

Sailing

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Women’s RS:X	Dilara Uralp
Women’s Laser Radial	Nazli Donertas
Men’s Finn	Alican Kaynar
Men’s 470	Deniz Cinar Ates Cinar

Shooting

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
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	Berkay Ogretir	Berkay Ogretir

Women’s Events

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Women’s 800m Freestyle	Beril Bocekler	Beril Bocekler
Women’s 1500m Freestyle	Beril Bocekler	Beril Bocekler
Women’s 200m Individual Medley	Viktoria Gunes	Viktoria Gunes

Taekwondo

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Women’s -49kg	Rukiye Yildirim
Women’s -57kg	Irem Yaman
Women’s -67kg	Nur Tatar
Women’s +67kg	Nafia Kus

Volleyball

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
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 -125kg	Taha Akgul
Men’s Greco-Roman -97kg	Cenk Ildem
Men’s Greco-Roman -130kg	Riza Kayaalp