Turkey at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Turkey at the 2000 Summer Olympics
IOC code	TUR
NOC	Turkish National Olympic Committee
Website	olimpiyat.org.tr (in English and Turkish)
in Sydney
Flag bearer	Hamza Yerlikaya[1]
Medals Ranked 26th	Gold 3 Silver 0 Bronze 2 Total 5
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Other related appearances
1906 Intercalated Games

Turkey competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Hüseyin Özkan	Judo	Men's Half Lightweight (66 kg)
Gold	Halil Mutlu	Weightlifting	Men's Flyweight (56 kg)
Gold	Hamza Yerlikaya	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman Middleweight (85 kg)
Bronze	Hamide Bıkçın Tosun	Taekwondo	Women's (57 kg)
Bronze	Adem Bereket	Wrestling	Men's Freestyle Welterweight (76 kg)

Results by event

Archery

In its fifth Olympic archery competition, Turkey again came within one victory of a medal. The women's team again made it to the semifinal before losing there. In the bronze medal match, they were defeated by Germany to eliminate them from medal contention.

Women's Team Competition:

• Altankaynak, Keskin Şatır, Nasaridze – bronze medal match, 4th place (2-2)

Men's Team Competition:

• Orbay, Satir, and Akbal – quarterfinal, 5th place (1-1)

Athletics

Men's competition

Men's Long Jump

• Mesut Yavaş

• Qualifying – 7.35 m (did not advance)

Men's Pole Vault

• Ruhan Işım

• Qualifying – DNS

Women's competition

Women's 1,500m

• Süreyya Ayhan

• Round 1 – 04:08.37
• Semifinal – 04:09.42 (did not advance)

Women's 5,000m

• Ebru Kavaklıoğlu

• Round 1 – 15:49.15 (did not advance)

Women's Discus

• Oksana Mert

• Qualifying – 55.02 m (did not advance)

Women's Marathon

• Serap Aktaş

• Final – 2:42:40 (37th place)

Boxing

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ramazan Ballıoğlu	Light flyweight	Velicu (ROU) L 8–20	Did not advance
Halil İbrahim Turan	Flyweight	Mesbahi (MAR) L 11–17	Did not advance
Agasi Agaguloglu	Bantamweight	Kangde (CHN) W 17–4	Cermeño (COL) W 11–3	Rigondeaux (CUB) L 5–14	Did not advance
Ramazan Palyani	Featherweight	Ali (PAK) W 5–4	Pereira (BRA) W (RSC)	Sattarkhanov (KAZ) L 11–12	Did not advance
Selim Palyani	Lightweight	Jebahi (FRA) W 14–5	Jackson (USA) W (WO)	Maletin (RUS) L (RSC)	Did not advance
Nurhan Süleymanoğlu	Light welterweight	Strange (CAN) W 9–3	Bykovsky (BLR) L 8–8	Did not advance
Bülent Ulusoy	Welterweight	Jin-seok (KOR) W 8–6	Craig (USA) W 9–4	Grușac (MDA) L 10–19	Did not advance
Fırat Karagöllü	Light middleweight	Roche (IRL) W 17–4	Esther (FRA) L 16–18	Did not advance
Akın Kuloğlu	Middleweight	Carrera (ARG) W (RSC)	Jeong-bin (KOR) W (RET)	Alakbarov (AZE) L 8–18	Did not advance

Legend: RSC – Referee stopped contest

Sailing

Men's Mistral

• Ertuğrul İçingir

• Race 1 – 26
• Race 2 – (37) OCS
• Race 3 – 24
• Race 4 – 11
• Race 5 – 15
• Race 6 – 28
• Race 7 – 29
• Race 8 – 25
• Race 9 – (37) OCS
• Race 10 – 22
• Race 11 – 37 DSQ
• Final – 217 (31st place)

Men's Single Handed Dinghy (Finn)

• Ali Enver Adakan

• Race 1 – 5
• Race 2 – 7
• Race 3 – (17)
• Race 4 – 7
• Race 5 – 9
• Race 6 – (23)
• Race 7 – 11
• Race 8 – 3
• Race 9 – 4
• Race 10 – 7
• Race 11 – 13
• Final – 66 (8th place)

Women's Mistral

• İlknur Akdoğan

• Race 1 – (30) DNF
• Race 2 – 27
• Race 3 – (28)
• Race 4 – 28
• Race 5 – 26
• Race 6 – 25
• Race 7 – 28
• Race 8 – 28
• Race 9 – 27
• Race 10 – 28
• Race 11 – 24
• Final – 241 (28th place)

Open Laser

• Ali Kemal Tüfekçi

• Race 2 – (40)
• Race 3 – 33
• Race 4 – (37)
• Race 5 – 29
• Race 6 – 28
• Race 7 – 36
• Race 8 – 30
• Race 9 – 14
• Race 10 – 24
• Race 11 – 27
• Final – 254 (34th place)

Swimming

Men's 200 m Freestyle

• Aytekin Mindan

• Preliminary Heat – 1:54.86 (did not advance)

Men's 400 m Freestyle

• Aytekin Mindan

• Preliminary Heat – 04:01.46 (did not advance)

Men's 100 m Breaststroke

• Hakan Kiper

• Preliminary Heat – 01:07.46 (did not advance)

Men's 100 m Backstroke

• Derya Büyükuncu

• Preliminary Heat – 56.21 (did not advance)

Men's 200 m Individual Medley

• Orel Oral

• Preliminary Heat – 02:09.51 (did not advance)

Women's 100 m Butterfly

• Ayse Diker

• Preliminary Heat – 01:04.65 (did not advance)

Women's 100 m Breaststroke

• İlkay Dikmen

• Preliminary Heat – 01:11.51 (did not advance)

Women's 200 m Breaststroke

• İlkay Dikmen

• Preliminary Heat – 02:33.34 (did not advance)

Women's 100 m Backstroke

• Derya Erke

• Preliminary Heat – 01:07.26 (did not advance)

Women's 200 m Backstroke

• Derya Erke

• Preliminary Heat – 02:21.28 (did not advance)

Weightlifting

Men

Athlete	Event	Snatch			Clean & Jerk			Total	Rank
		1	2	3	1	2	3
Halil Mutlu	56 kg	130.0	135.0	138.0	160.0	167.5	170.0	305.5
Naim Süleymanoğlu	62 kg	145.0	145.0	145.0	–	–	–	DNF	–
Yasin Arslan	69 kg	130.0	135.0	137.5	160.0	165.0	170.0	300.0	14
Mehmet Yılmaz	77 kg	155.0	155.0	160.0	180.0	187.5	192.5	347.5	10
Ayhan Çiçek		140.0	145.0	150.0	175.0	180.0	185.0	325.0	13
Bünyamin Sudaş	94 kg	175.0	175.0	177.5	215.0	220.0	220.0	392.5	7
Abdulaziz Alpak	105 kg	165.0	175.0	180.0	210.0	210.0	210.0	DNF	–

Wrestling

Freestyle

Athlete	Event	Elimination pool				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Harun Doğan	58 kg	Cuciuc (MDA) L 2–6	Zakhartdinov (UZB) L 0–3	Ramazanov (RUS) L WO	4	did not advance			15
Yüksel Şanlı	69 kg	Oziti (NGR) W 6–0	McIlravy (USA) L 3–6	—	2	did not advance			9
Adem Bereket	76 kg	Mchedlidze (GEO) W 3–0	Ritter (HUN) W 3–2	—	1 Q	Khinchagov (UZB) W 5–2	Slay (USA) L 1–3	Eui-jae (KOR) L 0–3F
Ali Özen	85 kg	Khadartsev (UZB) L 0–3	Hyung-mo (KOR) L 2–5	—	3	did not advance			18
Ahmet Doğu	97 kg	Heidari (IRI) L 1–6	Scherrer (SUI) L 3–4	—	3	did not advance			16
Aydın Polatçı	130 kg	Gombos (HUN) W 3–0	Taymazov (UZB) L 0–3	—	2	did not advance			11

Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Elimination pool				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ercan Yıldız	54 kg	Rivas (CUB) L 0–10	Pellew (NZL) W 16–0	Eyvazov (AZE) L 0–3	3	did not advance			11
Şeref Eroğlu	63 kg	Samurgashev (RUS) L 2–5	Zawadzki (POL) W WO	—	2	did not advance			10
Nazmi Avluca	76 kg	Bichinashvili (AZE) W 3–0	Jin-soo (KOR) L 1–3	—	2	did not advance			13
Hamza Yerlikaya	85 kg	Asell (FIN) W 3–0	Zander (GER) W 5–1	—	1 Q	Méndez (CUB) W 3–0	Vakhtangadze (GEO) W 3–0	Bárdosi (HUN) W 3–3
Hakkı Başar	97 kg	Chkhaidze (GEO) L 2–4	Wroński (POL) L 1–7	—	3	did not advance			16
Fatih Bakır	130 kg	Evseichik (ISR) L 0–3	Sitnik (POL) W 1–0	Vála (CZE) W 3–0	2	did not advance			8

References

Sources

This page was last edited on 25 March 2024, at 06:12