Turkey at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Turkey
Turkey at the Olympic Games
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IOC code	TUR
NOC	National Olympic Committee of Turkey
At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro
Competitors	82 in 18 sports
	Olympic history (summary)
Summer Games
	1908; 1912; 1920; 1924; 1928; 1932; 1936; 1948; 1952; 1956; 1960; 1964; 1968; 1972; 1976; 1980; 1984; 1988; 1992; 1996; 2000; 2004; 2008; 2012; 2016;
Winter Games
	1936; 1948; 1952; 1956; 1960; 1964; 1968; 1972; 1976; 1980; 1984; 1988; 1992; 1994; 1998; 2002; 2006; 2010; 2014;
Intercalated Games
	1906

Turkey is scheduled to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Turkish athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games since the nation's debut in 1908. Turkey did not attend the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles at the period of Great Depression, and the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of the United States boycott.

Competitors

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Archery	1	1	2
Athletics	15	10	25
Badminton	0	1	1
Boxing	5	0	5
Canoeing	0	1	1
Cycling	0	0	0
Equestrian	1	0	1
Fencing	0	1	1
Gymnastics	1	1	2
Judo	1	3	4
Rowing	0	0	0
Sailing	3	1	4
Shooting	4	0	4
Swimming	1	1	2
Table tennis	1	1	2
Taekwondo	1	1	2
Weightlifting	1	3	4
Wrestling	9	5	14
Total	44	30	74

Archery

One Turkish archer has qualified each for the men's and women's individual recurve at the Olympics by securing one of three available Olympic spots at the 2016 European Championships in Nottingham, Great Britain.^[1]

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Mete Gazoz	Men's individual
Yasemin Ecem Anagöz	Women's individual

Athletics

Turkish athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):^[2]^[3]

Men's 100 m – 3 quota places (Ramil Guliyev, Jak Ali Harvey, Emre Zafer Barnes)
Men's 200 m – 1 quota place (Ramil Guliyev, Jak Ali Harvey)
Men's 1500 m – 1 quota place (İlham Tanui Özbilen)
Men's 5000 m – 1 quota place (Ali Kaya)
Men's 10000 m – 2 quota places (Ali Kaya, Polat Kemboi Arıkan)
Men's 400 m hurdles – 1 quota place (Yasmani Copello Escobar)
Men's 3000 m steeplechase – 2 quota places (Tarık Langat Akdağ, Halil Akkaş)
Men's marathon – 3 quota places (Bekir Karayel, Serkan Kaya, Ercan Muslu)
Men's 20 km walk - 2 quota places (Mert Atli, Ersin Tacir)
Men's triple jump – 1 quota place (Şeref Osmanoğlu)
Women's 5000 m – 2 quota places (Yasemin Can, Meryem Akda)
Women's 10000 m – 1 quota place (Yasemin Can)
Women's 3000 m steeplechase – 3 quota places (Tuğba Güvenç, Özlem Kaya, Meryem Akda)
Women's marathon – 3 quota places (Nilay Esen, Sultan Haydar,Meryem Erdoğan)
Women's shot put – 1 quota place (Emel Dereli)
Women's hammer throw – 2 quota places (Kıvılcım Kaya, Tuğçe Şahutoğlu)
Women's long jump – 1 quota place (Karin Melis Mey)

Badminton

Turkey has qualified one badminton player for the women's singles into the Olympic tournament. Özge Bayrak had claimed her Olympic spot as one of top 34 individual shuttlers in the BWF World Rankings as of 5 May 2016.^[4]

Athlete	Event	Group Stage				Elimination	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Özge Bayrak	Women's singles

Boxing

Turkey has entered three boxers to compete in the following weight classes into the Olympic boxing tournament. Onur Şipal and Adem Kılıççı became the first Turkish boxers to be selected to the Olympic team with a top two finish of their respective weight division in the AIBA Pro Boxing series.^[5]^[6] Meanwhile, three further boxers (Gozgec, Ünal, and Demirezen) had claimed their Olympic spots with box-off victories at the 2016 European Qualification Tournament in Samsun.^[7]

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Batuhan Gozgec	Light welterweight
Onur Şipal	Welterweight
Adem Kılıççı	Middleweight
Mehmet Ünal	Light heavyweight
Ali Eren Demirezen	Super heavyweight

Canoeing

Sprint

Turkish canoeists have qualified one boat in each of the following events through the 2015 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships.^[8]

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Lasma Liepa	Women's K-1 200 m

Qualification Legend: FA = Qualify to final (medal); FB = Qualify to final B (non-medal)

Cycling

Road

Turkish riders qualified for a maximum of two quota places in the men's Olympic road race by virtue of their top 15 final national ranking in the 2015 UCI Europe Tour.^[9]

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
	Men's road race
	Men's time trial
	Men's road race

Equestrian

Turkey has entered one jumping rider into the Olympic equestrian competition by virtue of a top national finish from Central & Eastern Europe in the individual FEI Olympic Rankings.^[10] This signified the nation's Olympic return to the sport for the first time since 1960.

Jumping

Athlete	Horse	Event	Qualification								Final					Total
			Round 1		Round 2			Round 3			Round A		Round B			Total
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Ömer Karaevli	Dadjak	Individual

Fencing

Turkey has entered one fencer into the Olympic competition, signifying the nation's sporting comeback for the first time since 1984. İrem Karamete had claimed her Olympic spot in the women's foil by finishing among the top four individuals at the European Zonal Qualifier in Prague, Czech Republic.

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
İrem Karamete	Women's foil

Gymnastics

Artistic

Turkey has entered two artistic gymnasts into the Olympic competition. Ferhat Arican and Tutya Yılmaz had claimed their Olympic spots each in the men's and women's apparatus and all-around events, respectively, at the Olympic Test Event in Rio de Janeiro.^[11]^[12]

Men

Athlete	Qualification								Final
	Apparatus						Total	Rank	Apparatus						Total	Rank
	F	PH	R	V	PB	HB	Total	Rank	F	PH	R	V	PB	HB	Total	Rank
Ferhat Arican

Women

Athlete	Qualification						Final
	Apparatus				Total	Rank	Apparatus				Total	Rank
	V	UB	BB	F	Total	Rank	V	UB	BB	F	Total	Rank
Tutya Yılmaz

Judo

Turkey has qualified a total of four judokas for the following weight classes at the Games. Bekir Özlü and two others were ranked among the top 22 eligible judokas for men and top 14 for women in the IJF World Ranking List of May 30, 2016, while Büşra Katipoğlu at women's half-middleweight (63 kg) earned a continental quota spot from the European region, as Turkey's top-ranked judoka based on World Ranking points.

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Bekir Özlü	Men's −60 kg
	Women's −48 kg	N/A
Büşra Katipoğlu	Women's −63 kg	N/A
	Women's +78 kg	N/A

Rowing

Turkey has qualified one boat in the men's lightweight double sculls for the Olympics by virtue of a top two finish at the 2016 European & Final Qualification Regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
	Men's lightweight double sculls

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Sailing

Turkish sailors have qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the individual fleet World Championships, and European qualifying regattas.^[13]^[14]

Men

Athlete	Event	Race											Net points	Final rank
Athlete	Event	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M*	Net points	Final rank
Alican Kaynar	Finn
Ateş Çınar Deniz Çınar	470

Women

Athlete	Event	Race											Net points	Final rank
Athlete	Event	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M*	Net points	Final rank
Nazlı Çağla Dönertaş	Laser Radial

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race

Shooting

Turkish shooters have achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2014 and 2015 ISSF World Championships, the 2015 ISSF World Cup series, and European Championships or Games, as long as they obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by March 31, 2016.^[15]

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Yusuf Dikeç	10 m air pistol			N/A
Yusuf Dikeç	50 m pistol			N/A
Yavuz İlnam	Trap
Erdinç Kebapçı	Trap
İsmail Keleş	10 m air pistol			N/A
İsmail Keleş	50 m pistol			N/A

Qualification Legend: Q = Qualify for the next round; q = Qualify for the bronze medal (shotgun)

Swimming

Turkish swimmers have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and potentially 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)):^[16]^[17]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Nezir Karap	400 m freestyle

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Zeynep Güneş	100 m breaststroke
	200 m breaststroke
	200 m individual medley
	400 m individual medley			N/A

Table tennis

Turkey has entered one athlete into the table tennis competition at the Games. Two-time Olympian Melek Hu secured one of ten available Olympic spots in the women's singles by winning the group final match at the European Qualification Tournament in Halmstad, Sweden.^[18] Meanwhile, Ahmet Li was automatically selected among the top 22 eligible players in the men's singles based on the ITTF Olympic Rankings.^[19]

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ahmet Li	Men's singles
Melek Hu	Women's singles

Taekwondo

Turkey entered two athletes into the taekwondo competition at the Olympics. 2012 Olympic featherweight champion Servet Tazegül and silver medalist Nur Tatar qualified automatically for their respective weight classes by finishing in the top 6 WTF Olympic rankings.^[20]^[21]

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Bronze Medal	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Servet Tazegül	Men's −68 kg
Nur Tatar	Women's −67 kg

Weightlifting

Turkish weightlifters have qualified three women's quota places for the Rio Olympics based on their combined team standing by points at the 2014 and 2015 IWF World Championships. A single men's Olympic spot had been added to the Turkish roster by virtue of a top seven national finish at the 2016 European Championships.^[22] The team must allocate these places to individual athletes by June 20, 2016.

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Total	Rank
	Men's
	Women's
	Women's
	Women's

Wrestling

Turkey has qualified a total of fourteen wrestlers for each of the following weight classes into the Olympic competition. Four of them finished among the top six to book Olympic spots in the men's freestyle (86 & 125 kg), men's Greco-Roman 130 kg, and women's freestyle 58 kg at the 2015 World Championships, while three additional licenses were awarded to Turkish wrestlers, who progressed to the top two finals at the 2016 European Qualification Tournament.^[23]^[24]

The remaining half of the Turkish roster secured their Olympic places to complete the wrestling line-up in separate World Qualification Tournaments; three of them at the initial meet in Ulaanbaatar and four more at the final meet in Istanbul.

Key:

VT - Victory by Fall.
PP - Decision by Points - the loser with technical points.
PO - Decision by Points - the loser without technical points.

Men's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Süleyman Atlı	−57 kg
Yakup Gör	−65 kg
Soner Demirtaş	−74 kg
Selim Yaşar	−86 kg
İbrahim Bölükbaşı	−97 kg
Taha Akgül	−125 kg

Men's Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Selçuk Çebi	−75 kg
Cenk İldem	−98 kg
Rıza Kayaalp	−130 kg

Women's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Bediha Gün	−53 kg
Elif Jale Yeşilırmak	−58 kg
Hafize Şahin	−63 kg
Buse Tosun	−69 kg
Yasemin Adar	−75 kg

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Turkey at the 2016 Summer Olympics

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