Turkey at the 2016 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	TUR
Nocname:	Turkish National Olympic Committee
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	2016
Website:
Location:	Rio de Janeiro
Competitors:	103
Sports:	21
Flagbearer:	Rıza Kayaalp (opening)^[1] Taha Akgul (closing)
Rank:	41
Gold:	1
Silver:	3
Bronze:	4
Appearances:	auto
See also:	1906 Intercalated Games

Turkey competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Since the nation's debut in 1908, Turkish athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, except for three occasions. Turkey failed to register any athletes at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, did not attend the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles at the period of worldwide Great Depression, and also joined the United States-led boycott, when Moscow hosted the 1980 Summer Olympics. The Turkish team consisted of 103 athletes, 55 men and 48 women, across twenty-one sports.^[2]

Turkey returned home from Rio de Janeiro with eight medals (one gold, three silver, and four bronze), a vast improvement on the nation's overall medal count from the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.^[3] Five of these medals were awarded to the wrestlers, including a sole golden glory from double world champion Taha Akgül in the men's super heavyweight freestyle (125 kg), and a runner-up feat from reigning world and multiple-time European champion Rıza Kayaalp in the Greco-Roman side, despite his failed attempt to avert a historic golden "three-peat" set forth by his Cuban rival Mijaín López.^{[4] [5]}

Apart from the wrestlers, three Turkish athletes collected the rest of the country's medals in their respective individual sports. Among them were Cuban-born track sprinter Yasmani Copello in the men's 400 m hurdles, taekwondo fighter Nur Tatar in the women's welterweight division (67 kg), and Turkmen-born weightlifter Daniyar İsmayilov, who ended the country's momentary medal drought in his signature sport with a scintillating silver in the men's 69 kg category.^[6]

Medalists

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Medals by sport
Sport	bgcolor=f7f6a8		bgcolor=dce5e5		bgcolor=ffdab9		Total
Wrestling	1	2	2	5
Weightlifting	0	1	0	1
Athletics	0	0	1	1
Taekwondo	0	0	1	1
Total	1	3	4	8

Medals by gender
Gender				Total
Male	1	3	3	7
Female	0	0	1	1
Total	1	3	4	8

Competitors

The Turkish Olympic Committee (Turkish: Türkiye Milli Olimpiyat Komitesi, TMOK) fielded a roster of 103 athletes, 55 men and 48 women, to compete across twenty-one different sports at these Games; it was the nation's second-largest delegation sent to the Olympics, relatively smaller by eleven athletes than in London four years earlier.^[2] Women's basketball was the only collective sport in which Turkey qualified for the Games, having returned to the Olympic scene for the second straight time. These Games also witnessed several Turkish athletes compete for the first time in the women's modern pentathlon, as well as in equestrian jumping (1960) and fencing (1984) after long years of absence.

Track and field accounted for the most number of athletes on the Turkish team by an individual-based sport, with 31 entries (20 men and 11 women). There was only a single competitor each in badminton, sprint kayaking, equestrian jumping, fencing, modern pentathlon, and tennis.

The Turkish roster featured all three medalists returning from London 2012, namely taekwondo fighters Nur Tatar (women's 67 kg) and defending titleholder Servet Tazegül (men's 68 kg), and Greco-Roman wrestler Rıza Kayaalp, who entered his third straight Games as the reigning world champion, a multiple-time European champion, and a top medal favorite in the super heavyweight category. Because of his sporting successes, Kayaalp was nominated by TMOK to become the country's flag bearer in the opening ceremony.^{[1] [7]}

Nearly a quarter of the Turkish athletes representing at these Games were born in the overseas, with several of them coming from Africa and former Soviet nations. Among the foreign-born athletes were track sprinters Jak Ali Harvey (Jamaica) and Ramil Guliyev (Azerbaijan), track hurdler Yasmani Copello (Cuba), breaststroke swimmer and four-time world junior champion Zeynep Güneş (Ukraine), three-time Olympians Melek Hu (table tennis player, China) and Karin Melis Mey (long jumper, South Africa), and world-ranked weightlifter Daniyar İsmayilov (Turkmenistan).^[8]

Other notable athletes on the Turkish squad included sailing brothers Ateş and Deniz Çınar in the men's 470 class, double world champion and top medal favorite Taha Akgül in the men's super heavyweight freestyle (125 kg), and hammer thrower and 2004 bronze medalist Eşref Apak, who headed the roster as the lone competitor going to his fourth straight Olympics. Seventeen-year-old gymnast Tutya Yılmaz was Turkey's youngest athlete of the Games, with pistol shooter and three-time Olympian Yusuf Dikeç rounding out the field as the oldest competitor (aged 43).

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width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Archery	1	1	2
Athletics	20	11	31
Badminton	0	1	1
Basketball	0	12	12
Boxing	6	0	6
Canoeing	0	1	1
Cycling	2	0	2
Equestrian	1	0	1
Fencing	0	1	1
Gymnastics	1	1	2
Judo	1	3	4
Modern pentathlon	0	1	1
Rowing	2	0	2
Sailing	4	2	6
Shooting	4	0	4
Swimming	1	3	4
Table tennis	1	1	2
Taekwondo	1	1	2
Tennis	0	1	1
Weightlifting	1	3	4
Wrestling	9	5	14
Total	55	48	103

Archery

See main article: article and Archery at the 2016 Summer Olympics. 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.^[9]

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Mete Gazoz	Men's individual	661	29	W 6*–5	L 3–7	Did not advance
Yasemin Ecem Anagöz	Women's individual	638	25	W 6*–5	L 5–6*	Did not advance

Athletics

See main article: article and Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Turkish athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):^{[10] [11]}

Track & road events

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Jak Ali Harvey	100 m	10.14	2 Q	10.03	4	Did not advance
200 m	20.58	6	Did not advance
Ramil Guliyev	200 m	20.23	2 Q	20.09	4 q	20.43	8
İlham Tanui Özbilen	1500 m	3:49.02	13	Did not advance
Ali Kaya	5000 m	14:05.34	19	Did not advance
Ali Kaya	align=left rowspan=2	10000 m
Polat Kemboi Arıkan	27:35.50	13
Yasmani Copello	400 m hurdles	49.52	1 Q	48.61	3 q	47.92
Aras Kaya	align=left rowspan=3	3000 m steeplechase	8:32.35	8	Did not advance
Halil Akkaş	8:33.12	7	Did not advance
Tarık Langat Akdağ			Did not advance
Emre Zafer Barnes Umutcan Cumali Emektaş Jak Ali Harvey Ramil Guliyev İzzet Safer Furkan Şen	4 × 100 m relay	38.30	4	Did not advance
Bekir Karayel	align=left rowspan=3	Marathon	2:31:27	126
Ercan Muslu	2:18:40	51
Kaan Kigen Özbilen	2:14:11	17
Ersin Tacir	align=left rowspan=2	20 km walk	1:22.53	30
Mert Atlı	1:31.36	62

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Yasemin Can	5000 m	15:19.50	2 Q	14:56.96	6
10000 m	30:26.41	7
Meryem Akda	align=left rowspan=3	3000 m steeplechase	9:50.28	14	Did not advance
Özlem Kaya	9:32.03	9	Did not advance
Tuğba Güvenç	9:49.93	14	Did not advance
Esma Aydemir	align=left rowspan=3	Marathon	2:39.59	58
Sultan Haydar	2:53.57	111
Meryem Erdoğan	2:54.04	112

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Şeref Osmanoğlu	Men's triple jump		—	Did not advance
Eşref Apak	Men's hammer throw	70.08	15	Did not advance
Karin Melis Mey	Women's long jump	6.49	14	Did not advance
Emel Dereli	Women's shot put	17.01	24	Did not advance
Kıvılcım Kaya	align=left rowspan=2	Women's hammer throw	64.79	26	Did not advance
Tuğçe Şahutoğlu	67.05	21	Did not advance

Badminton

See main article: article and Badminton at the 2016 Summer Olympics. 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.^[12]

Basketball

See main article: article and Basketball at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Women's tournament

See main article: article and Basketball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament. Turkey women's basketball team qualified for the Olympics with a quarterfinal victory at the 2016 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Nantes, France.^[13]

Team roster

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Quarter-final

Boxing

See main article: article and Boxing at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Turkey has entered five boxers to compete in the following weight classes into the Olympic boxing tournament. Onur Şipal became the first Turkish boxer to be selected to the Olympic team with a top two finish of his respective weight division in the AIBA Pro Boxing series.^{[14] [15]} 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.^[16]

London 2012 Olympian Selçuk Eker secured an additional Olympic place on the Turkish roster at the 2016 AIBA World Qualifying Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan, while Şipal's younger brother Önder completed the boxing lineup with his box-off triumph at the 2016 APB and WSB Olympic Qualifier in Vargas, Venezuela.^[17]

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Selçuk Eker	Men's flyweight	L 1–2	Did not advance
Batuhan Gözgeç	Men's light welterweight	W 3–0	W 3–0	L 0–3	Did not advance
Onur Şipal	Men's welterweight	L 0–3	Did not advance
Önder Şipal	Men's middleweight	W 2–1	L 0–3	Did not advance
Mehmet Nadir Ünal	Men's light heavyweight	W	L 0–3	Did not advance
Ali Eren Demirezen	Men's super heavyweight		L 0–3	Did not advance

Canoeing

See main article: article and Canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Sprint

Turkish canoeists have qualified one boat in each of the following events through the 2015 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships.^[18]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Lasma Liepa	Women's K-1 200 m	41.760	4 Q	41.866	7	Did not advance
	Women's K-1 500 m	1:59.581	5 Q	2:08.450	7	Did not advance

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

Cycling

See main article: article and Cycling at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

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.^[19]

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Onur Balkan	Men's road race	Did not finish
align=left rowspan=2	Ahmet Örken	Men's road race	Did not finish
Men's time trial	1:27:37.41	34

Equestrian

See main article: article and Equestrian at the 2016 Summer Olympics. 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.^[20] This signified the nation's Olympic return to the sport for the first time since 1960.

Jumping

Fencing

See main article: article and Fencing at the 2016 Summer Olympics. 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.

Gymnastics

See main article: article and Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

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.^{[21] [22]}

Men

Women

Judo

See main article: article and Judo at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Turkey has qualified a total of four judokas for the following weight classes at the Games. London 2012 Olympian Bekir Özlü (previously competed for Georgia), Dilara Lokmanhekim, and Kayra Sayit 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 the highest-ranked Turkish judoka outside of direct qualifying position.^[23]

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Bekir Özlü	Men's −60 kg		L 000–003	Did not advance
Dilara Lokmanhekim	Women's −48 kg		L 000–100	Did not advance
Büşra Katipoğlu	Women's −63 kg		W 000–000	L 000–102	Did not advance
Kayra Sayit	Women's +78 kg			W 102–000	L 000–111	Did not advance	W 100–000	L 000–010	5

Modern pentathlon

See main article: article and Modern pentathlon at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Turkey has received an invitation from UIPM to send İlke Özyüksel in the women's modern pentathlon to the Olympics for the first time, as one of the next highest-ranked individuals, not yet qualified, in the World Rankings as of June 1, 2016.^[24]

Rowing

See main article: article and Rowing at the 2016 Summer Olympics. 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.

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

See main article: article and Sailing at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Turkish sailors have qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the individual fleet World Championships, and European qualifying regattas.^{[25] [26]}

London 2012 Olympians Alican Kaynar, Nazlı Çağla Dönertaş, and brothers Ateş Çınar and Deniz Çınar were selected to the Olympic roster under the qualifying merit. Windsurfers Dilara Uralp and Onur Cavit Biriz were added to Turkey's sailing lineup for the Games on June 24, 2016, after the nation received spare Olympic berths freed up by New Zealand and Canada, respectively, from the International Sailing Federation.^[27]

Athlete	Event	Race													Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	M*
Onur Cavit Biriz	Men's RS:X	31	32	37	34	37	29	23	37	33	37	33	37	EL	363	35
Alican Kaynar	Men's Finn	2	5	6	19	19	12	8	17	12	11	EL	93	13
Ateş Çınar Deniz Çınar	Men's 470	14	19	18	12	7	15	12	18	21	5	EL	120	15
Dilara Uralp	Women's RS:X	20	19	23	24	20	21	27	21	20	20	24	19	EL	231	22
Nazlı Çağla Dönertaş	Women's Laser Radial	16	20	6	9	22	10	5	27	12	28	EL	127	15

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

Shooting

See main article: article and Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics. 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.^[28]

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Semifinal		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Yusuf Dikeç	Men's 10 m air pistol	576	21	Did not advance
Men's 50 m pistol	550	22	Did not advance
Yavuz İlnam	align=left rowspan=2	Men's trap	115	13	Did not advance
Erdinç Kebapçı	108	29	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	İsmail Keleş	Men's 10 m air pistol	575	24	Did not advance
Men's 50 m pistol	544	29	Did not advance

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

Swimming

See main article: article and Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics. 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)):^{[29] [30]}

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Nezir Karap	Men's 400 m freestyle	3:58.37	43	Did not advance
Ekaterina Avramova	Women's 200 m backstroke	2:11.21	21	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=3	Zeynep Güneş	Women's 100 m breaststroke	1:07.14	15 Q	1:07.41	14	Did not advance
Women's 200 m breaststroke	2:23.83	7 Q	2:23.49	9	Did not advance
Women's 400 m individual medley	4:41.79	18	Did not advance
Nida Eliz Üstündağ	Women's 200 m butterfly	2:10.02	22	Did not advance

Table tennis

See main article: article and Table tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics. 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.^[31] Meanwhile, Ahmet Li was automatically selected among the top 22 eligible players in the men's singles based on the ITTF Olympic Rankings.^[32]

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ahmet Li	Men's singles	L 0–4	Did not advance
Melek Hu	Women's singles	L 0–4	Did not advance

Taekwondo

See main article: article and Taekwondo at the 2016 Summer Olympics. 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.^{[33] [34]}

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Servet Tazegül	Men's −68 kg	W 14–1	L 6–19	Did not advance	L 4–5	Did not advance	7
Nur Tatar	Women's −67 kg	W 11–1	W 5–1	L 0–4		W 7–3

Tennis

See main article: article and Tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Turkey has entered one tennis player into the Olympic tournament. Due to the withdrawal of several tennis players from the Games, Çağla Büyükakçay (world no. 77) received a spare ITF Olympic place to compete in the women's singles, as the next highest-ranked eligible player, not yet qualified, in the WTA World Rankings as of June 6, 2016.^{[35] [36]}

Weightlifting

See main article: article and Weightlifting at the 2016 Summer Olympics. 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.^[37] The team must allocate these places to individual athletes by June 20, 2016.

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Daniyar Ismayilov	Men's −69 kg	163	1	188	2	351
Mehtap Kurnaz	Women's −63 kg	81	14	100	13	181	13
Duygu Aynacı	Women's −69 kg	90	14	110	12	200	12
Assiya Ipek	Women's −75 kg	83	13	103	13	186	13

Wrestling

See main article: article and Wrestling at the 2016 Summer Olympics. 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.^{[38] [39]}

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.

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Men's Freestyle
Süleyman Atlı	−57 kg		L 3–8	Did not advance					16
Mustafa Kaya	−65 kg	L 4–4 ^F	Did not advance						20
Soner Demirtaş	−74 kg		W 4–2	L 0–7	Did not advance		W 12–0	W 6–0
Selim Yaşar	−86 kg		W 5–2	W 5–2	W 2–1	L 0–5
İbrahim Bölükbaşı	−97 kg	L 0–10	Did not advance						17
Taha Akgül	−125 kg		W 10–0	W 11–0	W 8–1	W 3–1
Men's Greco-Roman
Selçuk Çebi	−75 kg		L 1–2	Did not advance					15
Cenk İldem	−98 kg		W 2–1	W 1–1	L 0–9	W 4–0
Rıza Kayaalp	−130 kg		W 8–0	W 5–0 ^F	W 8–0	L 0–6
Women's Freestyle
Bediha Gün	−53 kg		L 0–10	Did not advance					18
Elif Jale Yeşilırmak	−58 kg		W 3–1	L 1–3	Did not advance		L 2–3	Did not advance	9
Hafize Şahin	−63 kg	W 2–5 ^F	L 5–9	Did not advance					8
Buse Tosun	−69 kg	W 6–0 ^F	L 0–12	Did not advance		W 7–4	L 2–3	Did not advance	7
Yasemin Adar	−75 kg	W 12–10	L 3–5	Did not advance					8

See also

• Turkey at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Notes and References

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3. News: 103 sporcu, 8 madalya. 103 athletes, 8 medals. tr. TRT World. 23 August 2016. 26 August 2018.
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5. News: Turkish wrestler Rıza Kayaalp settles for Olympic silver. Hürriyet Daily News. 16 August 2016. 26 August 2018.
6. News: Turkish weightlifter wins silver in Rio, former champion’s Beijing sample test positive for doping. Hürriyet Daily News. 10 August 2016. 26 August 2018.
7. News: Shawn. Smith. World champion wrestler Riza Kayaalp named Turkey's flag bearer. NBC Olympics. 6 August 2016. 26 August 2018. 7 August 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160807151030/http://www.nbcolympics.com/news/world-champion-wrestler-riza-kayaalp-named-turkeys-flag-bearer. dead.
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11. Web site: IAAF Games of the XXX Olympiad – Rio 2016 Entry Standards. IAAF. 18 April 2015.
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13. News: Yilmaz, Sanders power Turkey to Olympics. https://web.archive.org/web/20190702022257/http://www.fiba.basketball/oqtwomen/2016/news/yilmaz-sanders-power-turkey-to-olympics. live. 2 July 2019. FIBA. 17 June 2016. 17 June 2016.
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18. News: Olympic Canoe Sprint Qualification spots confirmed. International Canoe Federation. 6 September 2015. 8 September 2015.
19. News: UCI announces men's road Olympic quotas. Cyclingnews.com. 18 January 2016. 20 January 2016.
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21. News: Rio 2016 Olympic qualifiers in Men's Artistic Gymnastics: See the updated list!. FIG. 16 April 2016. 18 April 2016.
22. News: Rio 2016 Olympic qualifiers in Women's Artistic Gymnastics: See the updated list!. FIG. 17 April 2016. 18 April 2016.
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