Turkey at the 2020 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	TUR
Nocname:	Turkish Olympic Committee
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	2020
Website:
Location:	Tokyo, Japan
Competitors:	108
Sports:	18
Flagbearer Close:	Busenaz Sürmeneli
Rank:	35
Gold:	2
Silver:	2
Bronze:	9
Appearances:	auto

Turkey competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[1] Since the nation's official debut in 1908, Turkish athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, except the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles at the period of worldwide Great Depression, and the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of its support for the United States-led boycott.

Turkey surpassed its previous medal count from its previous appearance in the 2016 Summer Olympics with 13 medals, which was the most successful with two Golds, two Silvers and nine Bronze medals, respectively.

Medalists

Medals by sport
Sport	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9	Total
Archery	1	0	0	1
Boxing	1	1	0	2
Gymnastics	0	0	1	1
Karate	0	1	3	4
Taekwondo	0	0	2	2
Wrestling	0	0	3	3
Total	2	2	9	13

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games:

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
	1	1	2
	17	8	25
	0	1	1
	3	3	6
	2	0	2
	0	1	1
	4	1	5
	4	2	6
	3	4	7
	0	1	1
	1	0	1
	4	4	8
	4	0	4
	6	5	11
	1	4	5
	0	12	12
	1	1	2
	7	2	9
Total	58	50	108

Archery

See main article: article, Archery at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Archery at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Two Turkish archers booked Olympic places in the men’s individual recurve and the women's individual recurve by finishing in the top 4 of the Europe Continental Qualification Tournament in Antalya, Turkey, thereby also qualifying for the Mixed Team Event.

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Mete Gazoz	Men's individual	669	10	W 6–0	W 7–3	W 7–1	W 7–3	W 7–3	W 6–4
Yasemin Anagöz	Women's individual	652	19	W 6–2	W 6–2	L 2–6	Did not advance
Mete Gazoz Yasemin Anagöz	Mixed team	1321	7	W 6–2	W 6–2	L 3–5	L 2–6	4

Athletics

See main article: article, Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Turkish athletes further achieved the entry standards, either by qualifying time or by world ranking, in the following track and field events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):^[2] ^[3]

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Jak Ali Harvey	align=left rowspan=2	100 m	10.25	6	Did not advance
Emre Zafer Barnes	10.47	7	Did not advance
Ramil Guliyev	200 m	20.54	2 Q	20.31	6	Did not advance
Yasmani Copello	400 m hurdles	49.00	2 Q	47.88	3 q	47.81 NR	6
Ramil Guliyev Jak Ali Harvey Kayhan Özer Ertan Özkan	4 × 100 m relay			Did not advance
Yavuz Ağralı	align=left rowspan=2	Marathon	2:21:00	52
Polat Kemboi Arıkan
Abdulselam İmük	align=left rowspan=3	20 km walk	1:32:27	48
Salih Korkmaz
Şahin Şenoduncu	1:27:39	34

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Yasemin Can	5000 m	14:50.92	6 q	14:46.49	8
10000 m	31:10.05	11
Meryem Erdoğan	Marathon
Meryem Bekmez	align=left rowspan=3	20 km walk	1:35:08	22
Evin Demir	1:39:55	41
Ayşe Tekdal	1:38:40	39

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Necati Er	Men's triple jump	17.13	2 Q	17.25	6
Ersu Şaşma	Men's pole vault	5.65	12 q	5.70	10
Eşref Apak	align=left rowspan=2	Men's hammer throw	76.76	8 q	76.71	9
Özkan Baltacı	63.63	31	Did not advance
Emel Dereli	Women's shot put	17.81	16	Did not advance
Eda Tuğsuz	Women's javelin throw	62.31	5 q	64.00	4
Tuğçe Şahutoğlu	Women's hammer throw	66.06	27	Did not advance

Badminton

See main article: Badminton at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Badminton at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Turkey entered one female player into the Olympic tournament based on the BWF Race to Tokyo Rankings.^[4]

Boxing

See main article: article, Boxing at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Boxing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Turkey entered one male boxer into the Olympic tournament. Batuhan Çiftçi scored a round-of-16 victory to secure a spot in the men's flyweight division at the 2020 European Qualification Tournament in London, United Kingdom. At the same tournament, Buse Naz Çakıroğlu scored a quarterfinal victory to secure a spot in the women's flyweight division.^[5] ^[6]

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 Çiftçi	Men's flyweight	L 0–5	Did not advance
Necat Ekinci	Men's welterweight	L 2–3	Did not advance
Bayram Malkan	Men's light heavyweight		W	L 0–5	Did not advance
Buse Naz Çakıroğlu	Women's flyweight		W 3–2	W 5–0	W 5–0	L 0–5
Esra Yıldız	Women's lightweight		W 5–0	L 2-3	Did not advance
Busenaz Sürmeneli	Women's welterweight		W 5–0	W 5–0	W 5–0	W 3–0

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Cycling at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification.

Road

Turkey entered two riders to compete in the men's Olympic road race, by virtue of their top 50 national finish (for men) in the UCI World Ranking.^[7]

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Onur Balkan	align=left rowspan=2	Men's road race	Did not finish
Ahmet Örken	Did not finish

Fencing

See main article: Fencing at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Fencing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Turkey entered one fencer into the Olympic competition. Rio 2016 Olympian İrem Karamete claimed a spot in the women's foil as one of the two highest-ranked fencers vying for qualification from Europe in the FIE Adjusted Official Rankings.^[8]

Gymnastics

See main article: article, Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification.

Artistic

Turkey entered three artistic gymnasts into the Olympic competition. Rio 2016 Olympian Ferhat Arıcan and rookie Nazlı Savranbaşı finished among the top twelve eligible for qualification in the men's and among the top twenty in the women's individual all-around and apparatus events, respectively, to book their spots on the Turkish roster at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. Meanwhile, Ahmet Önder and İbrahim Çolak secured spots available for individual-based gymnasts, neither part of the team nor qualified through the all-around, in the parallel bars and rings exercises, respectively, at the same tournament.^[9] ^[10]

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification								Final
		Apparatus						Total	Rank	Apparatus						Total	Rank
								Total	Rank							Total	Rank
Ferhat Arıcan	Parallel bars		14.233	15.566	4 Q	15.633
align=left rowspan=3	Adem Asil	All-around	14.033	12.400	14.800	14.766	14.091	14.100	84.524	15 Q	14.300	13.166	13.700	15.133	12.600	13.600	82.499	15
Rings	14.800	14.800	6 Q	14.600	7
Vault	14.766	4 Q	14.449	6
İbrahim Çolak	Rings	14.933	4 Q	14.866	5
align=left rowspan=2	Ahmet Önder	All-around	14.600	13.333	14.366	14.333	15.200	13.833	85.665	8 Q	—	12.900	13.866	14.333	—	41.099
Vault	14.466	14.466	8 Q	14.066	7

Women

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Judo at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Turkey entered five judoka (four men and one women) into the Olympic tournament based on the International Judo Federation Olympics Individual Ranking.^[11]

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final /
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Mihraç Akkuş	Men's −60 kg		W 01–00	L 00–01	Did not advance
Bilal Çiloğlu	Men's −73 kg		W 01–00	L 00–01	Did not advance
Vedat Albayrak	Men's −81 kg		L 00–01	Did not advance
Mihael Žgank	Men's −90 kg		W 01–00	W 01–00	W 01–00	L 00–01		L 00–01	5
Gülkader Şentürk	Women's –48 kg		L 00–01	Did not advance
Kayra Sayit	Women's +78 kg		W 01–00	W 01–00	L 00–01	Did not advance	W 01–00	L 00–01	5

Karate

See main article: Karate at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Karate at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Turkey entered seven karateka into the inaugural Olympic tournament. 2019 European Games medalists Uğur Aktaş (men's +75 kg), Ali Sofuoğlu (men's kata), Serap Özçelik (women's 55 kg), Merve Çoban (women's 61 kg), and Meltem Hocaoğlu (women's +61 kg) qualified directly for their respective kumite and kata categories by finishing among the top four karateka at the end of the combined WKF Olympic Rankings.^[12]

Kumite

Athlete	Event	Group stage					Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Eray Şamdan	Men's –67 kg	W 7–1	L 2–6	W 4–1	W 2–1	2 Q	W 2–0	L 0–5
Uğur Aktaş	Men's +75 kg	W 3–1	L 3–5	W 11–3	W	2 q	L 2–2	Did not advance
Serap Özçelik	Women's −55 kg	L 4–5	L 1–5	L 4–5		4	Did not advance
Merve Çoban	Women's −61 kg	W 4–0	W 6–2	L 0–2	L 2–2⁺	2 Q	L 0–2	Did not advance
Meltem Hocaoğlu	Women's +61 kg	D 5–5	L 4–5	L 4–9	L 0–4	5	Did not advance

Kata

Athlete	Event	Elimination round		Ranking round		Final /
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Opposition Result	Rank
Ali Sofuoğlu	Men's kata	27.28	2 Q	27.32	2 Q	W 27.26–26.14
Dilara Bozan	Women's kata	24.76	3 Q	25.78	3 q	L 26.52–26.94	4

Modern pentathlon

See main article: Modern pentathlon at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Modern pentathlon at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Turkey athletes qualified for the following spots to compete in modern pentathlon. İlke Özyüksel confirmed places each in the women's event, after booked the sixth of eight available spots at world ranking.

Rowing

See main article: Rowing at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Rowing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Turkey qualified one boat in the men's single sculls for the Games by finishing sixth in the A-final and securing the second of three berths available at the 2021 FISA European Olympic Qualification Regatta in Varese, Italy.^[13]

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, Sailing at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Sailing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Turkish sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2018 Sailing World Championships, the class-associated Worlds, and the continental regattas.^[14] ^[15]

Two-time Olympian Alican Kaynar (Finn), 470 crew brothers Deniz and Ateş Çınar, and Rio 2016 windsurfer Dilara Uralp were selected to the Turkish roster under the qualifying merit, while rookie Ecem Güzel beat her rival Nazlı Çağla Dönertaş to top the country's Laser Radial spot with a tenth place overall at the 2019 World Championships in Sakaiminato.^[16]

Men

Athlete	Event	Race													Net points	Final rank
Athlete	Event	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	M*	Net points	Final rank
Onur Cavit Biriz	RS:X	15	19	20	19		14	23	20	23	21	21	17	EL	210	20
Alican Kaynar	Finn	1	1	6	13	9	14	7		10	10	5	81	8
Ateş Çınar Deniz Çınar	470	11	14	5	3	2	10		13	11	4	10	93	10

Women

Athlete	Event	Race													Net points	Final rank
Athlete	Event	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	M*	Net points	Final rank
Dilara Uralp	RS:X	16	22	23	23	24		22	24	21	21	25	24	EL	245	24
Ecem Güzel	Laser Radial	4	24	12	17	28		11	29	27	20	EL	172	20
Okyanus Arıkan Beste Kaynakçı	470	20			18	12	14	13	18	3	14	EL	127.1	17

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

Shooting

See main article: article, Shooting at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Shooting at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Turkish shooters achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2018 ISSF World Championships, the 2019 ISSF World Cup series, European Championships or Games, and European Qualifying Tournament, as long as they obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by May 31, 2020.^[17]

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Ömer Akgün	Men's 10 m air rifle	629.8	5 Q	207.3	4
Men's 50 metre rifle three positions	1147	36	Did not advance
Yusuf Dikeç	align=left rowspan=2	Men's 10 m air pistol	572	24	Did not advance
İsmail Keleş	572	25	Did not advance
Özgür Varlık	Men's 25 m rapid fire pistol	555	24	Did not advance

Swimming

See main article: article, Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Turkish swimmers further 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)):^[18] ^[19]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Yiğit Aslan	800 m freestyle	7:56.18	24	Did not advance
Ümitcan Güreş	100 m butterfly	52.44	=35	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Berkay Ömer Öğretir	100 m breaststroke	59.82	18	Did not advance
200 m breaststroke	2:10.73	22	Did not advance
Berke Saka	200 m backstroke	1:58.66	23	Did not advance
Hüseyin Emre Sakçı	100 m breaststroke	59.87	19	Did not advance
Baturalp Ünlü	200 m freestyle	1:49.75	34	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Beril Böcekler	400 m freestyle	4:08.27	16	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Deniz Ertan	800 m freestyle	8:36.29	23	Did not advance
1500 m freestyle	16:13.22	17	Did not advance
Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş	200 m individual medley	2:14.41	22	Did not advance
Defne Taçyıldız	200 m butterfly	2:10.00	12 Q	2:11.27	14	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=3	Merve Tuncel	400 m freestyle	4:11.06	19	Did not advance
800 m freestyle	8:25.62	12	Did not advance
1500 m freestyle	16:00.51	11	Did not advance
Beril Böcekler Deniz Ertan Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş Merve Tuncel	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	8:10.96	13	Did not advance

Taekwondo

See main article: article, Taekwondo at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Taekwondo at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Turkey entered five athletes into the taekwondo competition at the Games. Rukiye Yıldırım (women's 49 kg), Hatice Kübra İlgün (women's 57 kg), double Olympic medalist Nur Tatar (women's 67 kg), and Nafia Kuş (women's +67 kg) qualified directly for their respective weight classes by finishing among the top five taekwondo practitioners at the end of the WT Olympic Rankings. Meanwhile, Hakan Reçber scored a semifinal victory in the men's lightweight category (68 kg) to book the remaining spot on the Turkish taekwondo squad at the 2021 European Qualification Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria.^[20]

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final /
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Hakan Reçber	Men's −68 kg		W 25–15	L 19–39	Did not advance	W 23–8	W 22–13
Rukiye Yıldırım	Women's −49 kg		W 21–20	W 31–30	L 19–39		L 22–27	5
Hatice Kübra İlgün	Women's −57 kg		W 16–5	L 9–17	Did not advance	W 6–0	W 8–6
Nur Tatar	Women's −67 kg		W 12–7	L 1–3	Did not advance
Nafia Kuş	Women's +67 kg		L 5–7	Did not advance

Volleyball

See main article: article and Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Indoor

Summary

Women's tournament

See main article: article and Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament. Turkey women's volleyball team qualified for the Olympics by winning the final match and securing an outright berth at the European Olympic Qualification Tournament in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, marking the country's recurrence to the sport after an eight-year absence.^[21]

Team roster

Group play

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Quarter-final

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Weightlifting at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Turkish weightlifters qualified for three quota places at the games, based on the Tokyo 2020 Rankings Qualification List of 11 June 2021.^[22]

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Total	Rank
Muhammed Furkan Özbek	Men's −67 kg	142	6			142
Nuray Levent	Women's −64 kg	100	7	120	9	220	9

Wrestling

See main article: article, Wrestling at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Wrestling at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Turkey qualified nine wrestlers for each of the following classes into the Olympic competition. Four of them finished among the top six to book Olympic spots in the men's freestyle (57 and 125 kg) and men's Greco-Roman (97 and 130 kg) wrestling at the 2019 World Championships, while four additional licenses were awarded to the Turkish wrestlers, who progressed to the top two finals of their respective weight categories at the 2021 European Olympic Qualification Tournament in Budapest, Hungary.^[23] ^[24] Another Turkish wrestler claimed one of the remaining slots in the women's freestyle 76 kg to complete the nation's roster at the 2021 World Qualification Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria.^[25]

Men's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage	Final /
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Süleyman Atlı	Men's 57 kg	L 2–3	Did not advance				11
Osman Göçen	Men's 86 kg	W 2–2	L 1–12	Did not advance			9
Süleyman Karadeniz	Men's 97 kg	W 3–3	W 8–7	L 0–5		L 2–6	5
Taha Akgül	Men's −125 kg	W 5–0	L 0–8	Did not advance	W 4–0	W 5–0

Men's Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage	Final /
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Kerem Kamal	Men's 60 kg	L 0–8	Did not advance				15
Cenk İldem	Men's 97 kg	L 1–3	Did not advance				12
Rıza Kayaalp	Men's 130 kg	W 5–1	W 6–2	L 0–2		W 7–2

Women's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage	Final /
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Evin Demirhan	Women's 50 kg	L 0–11	Did not advance				16
Yasemin Adar	Women's −76 kg	W 6–0	L 4–6	Did not advance	W 2–0 ^F	W 4–0 ^F

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