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Turkey at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Turkey competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

Medalists

Results by event

Archery

The Turkish had three women archers in the top 85 in the world, and two in the top 50, so it was well within reason to suggest that they could at least advance a round in the Olympic tournament. After the ranking round (individual and team ranking was simultaneous), Turkey were tied with Germany for sixth, but lost out on a tiebreaker. This was critical, as instead of getting the 11th-ranked Russians, Turkey drew the 2nd-ranked Ukraine, who were poorly placed in the ranking round because of a disastrous round from world #5 Kateryna Palekha. Ukraine shot the second best total of the round of 16 to beat the Turks, whose score was identical to that of the Russians.

There was a further reverse dealt to the Turks by German archers, however, as Damla Gunay handily lost to a German, while Zekiye Keskin Satir needed extra arrows to beat a German opponent of her own.

The lone male archer, Hasan Orbay, led by 1 coming into the final four arrows, but then shot a 5, followed by a 7, leaving him down by four. He made two points back, but was still eliminated.

Men's Individual:

Women's Individual:

Women's Team:

Athletics

Before 2004, Turkey had only won one medal in Athletics, Ruhi Sarialp in the 1936 triple jump. This count doubled after Esref Apak was moved up following the removal of Adrian Annus for missing a drug test. Apak threw 79.51 metres with his second throw of the final to place third, making the second half of the final and earning three more throws, though he wouldn't top 79.51. Elvan Abeylegesse was the only other member of the team to make a final, and actually made two, the 1500 and 5000 metres. She finished within three seconds of a medal in the 1500, but was well back in the 5000.

Men's 800 metres:

Men's Triple Jump:

  • Berk Tuna

    • Qualification: No mark (did not advance)

Men's Discus Throw:

Men's Hammer Jump:

  • Esref Apak

    • Qualification: 76.74 m (3rd in Group A, Qualified, 9th overall)
    • Final A: 79.51 m (2nd overall, Qualified)
    • Final B: 79.23 m (Best: 79.51 m) (Bronze Medal)

Women's 800 metres:

  • Binnaz Uslu

    • Round 1: 2:03.46 (6th in heat 5, did not advance, 22nd overall)

Women's 1500 metres:

  • Elvan Abeylegesse

    • Round 1: 4:06.42 (5th in heat 1, Qualified, 13th overall)
    • Semifinal: 4:07.10 (4th in semifinal 1, Qualified, 11th overall)
    • Final: 4:00.67 (8th overall)

Women's 5000 metres:

Women's Marathon:

Ozturk withdrew between the 10 and 15 km checkpoints, having fallen behind the leaders by around 5 minutes.

Women's High Jump:

Women's Shot Put:

  • Filiz Kadoğan
  • Qualification: 15.20 m (15th in Group A, did not advance, 33rd overall)

Women's Heptathlon:

  • Anzhela Atroshchenko

    • Did not finish

      • 100 metre Hurdles: 14.10 s (964 points) (season best)
      • High Jump: 1.64 m (783 points) (Total: 1747 points)
      • Shot Put: 12.29 m (680 points) (Total: 2427 points)
      • 200 metres: 25.11 s (877 points) (Total: 3304 points)
      • Long Jump: Did not start

Women's 20 kilometre Walk:

Boxing

Turkey sent eight boxers to the Olympics in Athens. Atagun Yalcinkaya won Turkey's only medal in boxing of 2004, a silver medal. This put Turkey in a four-way tie for 8th place in the boxing medal count.

Four Turkish boxers lost their first matches. Two more fell in the round of 16, while Ihsan Yildirim Tarhan made it to the quarterfinals and Yalcinkaya made it to the final before being defeated. The combined record of the eight boxers was 8-7, with one boxer losing by walkover.

Men's Light Flyweight (48 kg):

Men's Featherweight (57 kg):

Men's Lightweight (60 kg):

Men's Light Welterweight (64 kg):

Men's Welterweight (69 kg):

Men's Middleweight (75 kg):

Men's Light Heavyweight (81 kg):

Men's Heavyweight (91 kg):

Judo

The three Turkish judokas put up a record of 5-5, with the strongest performance from Selim Tataroglu, who won two repechage matches and ended up just two matches from a medal. Tataroglu was involved in both of the matches in his division that were won by assessment of 4 penalty points (Hanusko-make by 4 shidos) back to back, losing the first, then winning the second. Another trivia note was Nese Sensoy's split descistion against the Koreas, defeating the judoka from the North, but losing to the judoka from the South.

Men's 66 kg (Half-Lightweight):

Men's +100 kg (Heavyweight):

Women's 48 kg (Extra-Lightweight):

Sailing

Ertugrul Icingir, in the Men's Mistral, was the top Turkish sailor, with a high finish of third in one race, and the only top-15 finish. Kemal Muslubas was a man participating in the open event.

Men's Mistral:

Men's Finn:

Men's 470:

Open Laser:

Shooting

Men's Trap:

  • Oguzhan Tuzun

    • Qualification: 115 points (21st overall, did not advance)

Swimming

None of the nine Turkish swimmers in Athens advanced to a semifinal, and Kaan Tayla was the only one to finish in the top half of the field.

Men's 50 metre Freestyle:

  • Kaan Tayla

    • Heat: 23.26 s (39th overall, did not advance)

Men's 100 metre Freestyle:

  • Kaan Tayla

    • Heat: 51.52 s (42nd overall, did not advance)

Men's 200 metre Freestyle:

Men's 400 metre Freestyle:

Men's 100 metre Backstroke:

Men's 200 metre Backstroke:

Men's 100 metre Butterfly:

  • Onur Uras

    • Heat: 56.37 (49th overall, did not advance)

Men's 200 metre Individual Medley:

'Women's 400 metre Freestyle:'

Women's 100 metre Backstroke:

Women's 200 metre Backstroke:

Women's 100 metre Breaststroke:

Women's 100 metre Breaststroke:

Women's 100 metre Butterfly:

Women's 200 metre Butterfly

Taekwondo

Bahri Tanrikulu was the only member of the Turkish taekwondo team, but the 2001 world champion made the most of his opportunity, barely edging his Filipino opponent in the first round, holding onto a large early lead in his second bout, winning a controversial desicion over Ahmadov, who staged a five-minute protest sit in. He fell behind in the second round of the final and never recovered, but did manage to claim Turkey's first ever medal in taekwondo.

Men's Under 80kg:

Weightlifting

Weightlifting was the most successful sport for Turkey in Athens, and the most successful individual event was the Men's 56 kg class, where double Olympic champion Halil Mutlu defended his title, and as joined on the podium by Sedat Artuc who had the lowest body weight in a three-way tie for the bronze medal. European champion Taner Sagir set Olympic records for both the Snatch and the overall total as he just edged to a gold medal, while another Turk in the same division had a lift for a bronze, but missed. Hakan Yılmaz also missed a lift for a bronze medal.

In the women's event, Nurcan Taylan became the first woman in Turkish Olympic history to win a gold medal, and did it in classic fashion, setting world records in both the Snatch and the total.

Men's 56 kg:

  • Halil Mutlu

    • 295.0 kg (Snatch 135.0 kg, Clean & Jerk 160.0 kg) (Gold medal)
  • Sedat Artuc

    • 280.0 kg (Snatch 125.0 kg, Clean & Jerk 155.0 kg) (Bronze medal)

Men's 77 kg:

  • Reyhan Arabacioglu

    • 280.0 kg (Snatch 165.0 kg, Clean & Jerk 195.0 kg, 4th overall)
  • Taner Sagir

    • 375.0 kg (Snatch 172.5 kg (Olympic Record), Clean & Jerk 195.0 kg) (Gold Medal) (Olympic Record)

Men's 85 kg:

Ince missed all three of his attempts at a 175.0 kg Snatch, which would have placed him 4th in that portion.

Men's 94 kg:

  • Hakan Yılmaz

    • 390.0 kg (Snatch 175.0 kg, Clean & Jerk 215.0 kg, 6th overall)

Women's 48 kg:

  • Nurcan Taylan

    • 210.0 kg (Snatch 97.5 kg (World Record), Clean & Jerk 112.5 kg) (Gold Medal) (World Record)

Women's 58 kg:

  • Aylin Dasdelen

    • 225.0 kg (Snatch 100.0 kg, Clean & Jerk 125.0 kg, 4th overall)

Women's 69 kg:

Simsek missed all three of her attempts at a 115.0 kg Snatch, which would have placed her 4th in that portion.

Wrestling

Freestyle

Turkey has won more medals in wrestling than in any other sport, and, while the wrestlers were overshadowed somewhat by the success of the weightlifters, they managed three medals, one in freestyle and two in Greco-Roman. Overall the freestyle wrestlers had an 8-9 record, with two of the six wrestlers progressing beyond pool play. The 2004 European champion at 120 kg, Aydin Polatci, won his pool then endured 3 overtime matches, winning his quarterfinal and the bronze medal match. The 66 kg entrant, European bronze medalist Omer Cubukci, got out of his pool, but heavily lost his quarterfinal. 2004 European champions Tevfik Odabasi and Gokhan Yavaser both failed to emerge from their pools.

Men's 55 kg:

Men's 60 kg:

Men's 66 kg:

Men's 84 kg:

Men's 96 kg:

Men's 120 kg:

Greco-Roman

The Greco-Roman team was slightly more successful than the Freestyle team, earning three medals and making a final, for an overall record of 15-7. At 66 kg, Seref Eroglu, a six-time European champion, looked quite dominant in marching his way to the final, but fell behind early and could not catch up, settling for silver. Two-time Olympic champion at 84 kg Hamza Yerlikaya lost out at the semi-final stage, falling to a Swedish opponent, then lost again in the bronze medal match. At 96 kg, Mehmet Ozal was beaten less than 70 seconds into his semi-final, but recovered to win the bronze-medal match, though the disqualification of his opponent meant he would have won the bronze medal even if he had lost.

Men's 55 kg:

Men's 60 kg:

Men's 66 kg:

Men's 84 kg:

Men's 96 kg:

Men's 120 kg:

Non-competing athletes

Women's 75 kg Weightlifting

  • Şule Şahbaz

    • Tested positive for a banned steroid in a pre-competition test, was not on the entry list and did not compete in Athens.

Officials

  • President: Togay Bayatli
  • Secretary General: Nese Gundogan

See also

References

External links

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