Turkey at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Turkey at the Olympic Games
Flag of Turkey IOC code  TUR NOC National Olympic Committee of Turkey
At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney
Competitors
Medals Rank: 26	Gold 3	Silver 0	Bronze 2	Total 5
Olympic history (summary)
Summer Games
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Winter Games
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Intercalated Games
1906

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

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Ozkan, HuseyinHuseyin Ozkan	Judo	Men's Half Lightweight (66 kg)
Gold	Mutlu, HalilHalil Mutlu	Weightlifting	Men's Flyweight (56 kg)
Gold	Yerlikaya, HamzaHamza Yerlikaya	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman Middleweight (85 kg)
Bronze	Bikçin, HamideHamide Bikçin	Taekwondo	Women's (57 kg)
Bronze	Bereket, AdemAdem 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.

Men's individual
	Hasan Orbay			Serdar Satir			Ozdemir Akbal
1/32 eliminations	Defeated	Juan Carlos Manjarrez Godinez Mexico	165-153	Lost to	Sebastien Flute France	160-156	Lost to	Scott Hunter-Russell Australia	154-146
1/16 eliminations	Lost to	Yong-Ho Jang Korea	169-160	-	-	-	-	-	-

Women's individual
	Elif Altinkaynak			Zekiye Satir			Natalia Nasaridze
1/32 eliminations	Defeated	Jennifer Chan Philippines	160-143	Lost to	Nataliya Burdeyna Ukraine	166-157	Lost to	Kirstin Lewis South Africa	154-153
1/16 eliminations	Lost to	Alison Williamson Great Britain	157-154	-	-	-	-	-	-

Women's Team Competition:

• Altankaynak, Satir, 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 Yavas

• Qualifying — 7.35 m (did not advance)

Men's Pole Vault

• Ruhan Isim

• Qualifying — NM (did not advance)

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 Kavaklioglu

• 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

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)

• Ramazan Ballioglu
  • Round 1 — Lost to Marian Velicu of Romania (→ did not advance)

Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)

• Halil Ibrahim Turan
  • Round 1 — Lost to Hicham Mesbahi of Morocco (→ did not advance)

Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg)

• Agasi Agaguloglu
  • Round 1 — Defeated Kangde Mai of China
  • Round 2 — Defeated Cermeno Nehomar of Venezuela
  • Quarterfinal — Lost to Guillermo Rigondeaux of Cuba (→ did not advance)

Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg)

• Ramazan Palyani
  • Round 1 — Defeated Ali Haider of Pakistan
  • Round 2 — Defeated Vlademir Dos Santos Pereira of Brazil
  • Quarterfinal — Lost to Bekzat Sattarkhanov of Kazakhstan (→ did not advance)

Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg)

• Selim Palyani
  • Round 1 — Defeated Abdel Jebahi of France
  • Round 2 — Defeated David Jackson of United States
  • Quarterfinal — Lost to Alexandr Maletin of Russia (→ did not advance)

Men's Light Welterweight (– 63.5 kg)

• Nurhan Suleymanoglu
  • Round 1 — Defeated Michael Strange of Canada
  • Round 2 — Lost to Sergey Bykovsky of Belarus (→ did not advance)

Men's Welterweight (– 67 kg)

• Bulent Ulusoy
  • Round 1 — Defeated Jin-Suk Bae of Korea
  • Round 2 — Defeated Dante Craig of United States
  • Quarterfinal — Lost to Vitalie Gruşac of Moldova (→ did not advance)

Men's Light Middleweight (– 71 kg)

• Firat Karagollu
  • Round 1 — Defeated Michael Roche of Ireland
  • Round 2 — Lost to Frédéric Esther of France (→ did not advance)

Men's Middleweight (– 75 kg)

• Akin Kakauridze
  • Round 1 — Defeated Mariano Natalio Carrera of Argentina
  • Round 2 — Defeated Im Jung-Bin of Korea
  • Quarterfinal — Lost to Vugar Alekperov of Azerbaijan (→ did not advance)

Sailing

Men's Mistral

• Ertugrul Icingir

• 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)

• Enver Adakan Ali

• 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

• Ilknur Akdogan

• 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 Tufekci

• 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 Büyükunçu

• 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

• Ilkay Dikmen

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

Women's 200 m Breaststroke

• Ilkay 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
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	–

References

• Wallechinsky, David (2004). The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics (Athens 2004 Edition). Toronto, Canada. ISBN 1-894963-32-6.
• International Olympic Committee (2001). The Results. Retrieved 12 November 2005.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 1: Preparing for the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 2: Celebrating the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). The Results. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
• International Olympic Committee Web Site