Turkey at the 2024 Summer Olympics explained

Turkey, officially named Türkiye by the IOC, competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. Since the nation's official debut in 1908, Turkish athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, except for three occasions: Antwerp 1920, because of the sanction against the Central Powers including the Ottoman Empire, Los Angeles 1932 at the period of worldwide Great Depression, and Moscow 1980, as part of the United States-led boycott. Notably, the 2024 Summer Olympics marked the first time since 1984 that Turkey did not secure at least one gold medal.

Silver medalist Yusuf Dikeç became an internet phenomenon, gaining widespread fame for his "seeming nonchalance" and being underdressed compared to other athletes. ^[1]

Medalists

Medals by sport
Sport	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9		Total
Boxing	0	2	1	3
Shooting	0	1	0	1
Wrestling	0	0	2	2
Archery	0	0	1	1
Taekwondo	0	0	1	1
Total	0	3	5	8

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Archery	3	1	4
Athletics	10	6	16
Badminton	0	1	1
Boxing	2	5	7
Cycling	1	0	1
Fencing	1	1	2
Gymnastics	5	0	5
Judo	5	3	8
Modern pentathlon	1	1	2
Rowing	0	1	1
Sailing	3	5	8
Shooting	3	4	7
Swimming	4	4	8
Table tennis	0	1	1
Taekwondo	2	3	5
Volleyball	0	13	13
Weightlifting	1	0	1
Wrestling	6	5	11
Total	47	54	101

Archery

See main article: article, Archery at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Archery at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Turkey fielded a full squad of men's team recurve and one women's in individual recurve, by virtue of their silver-medal victory (for men's team recurve), which obtaining one of three available spots as the highest-ranked eligible nation at the 2023 World Championships in Berlin, Germany;^[2] meanwhile the nations grab one women's quota through the 2024 European Continental Qualification Tournament in Essen, Germany.

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	align=left rowspan=3	Men's individual	676	8	W 6–0	W 6–2	W 6–5	L 4–6	Did not advance		7
Ulaş Tümer	676	10	W 6–4	W 6–2	L 2–6	Did not advance			9
Abdullah Yıldırmış	640	58	L 2–6	Did not advance					33
Mete Gazoz Ulaş Tümer Abdullah Yıldırmış	Men's team	1992	6	W 5–4	W 6–2	L 4–5	W 6–2
Elif Berra Gökkır	Women's individual	671	5	W 6–0	W 6–0	W 6–4	L 2–6	Did not advance		8
Mete Gazoz Elif Berra Gökkır	Mixed team	1347	6 Q	L 4–5	Did not advance			9

Athletics

See main article: article, Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Turkish track and field athletes achieved the entry standards for Paris 2024, either by passing the direct qualifying mark (or time for track and road races) or by world ranking, in the following events (a maximum of 3 athletes each):^{[3] [4]}

Track and road events

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Repechage		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Kayhan Özer	100 m	10.34	50	Did not advance
Berke Akçam	align=left rowspan=2	400 m hurdles	49.48	26	48.72	4 Q	49.12	17	Did not advance
Yasmani Copello	50.72	36			Did not advance
Kaan Kigen Özbilen	Marathon
Salih Korkmaz	20 km walk	1:29:05	45

Women

Mixed

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Alperen Acet	Men's high jump	2.20	22	Did not advance
Ersu Şaşma	Men's pole vault	5.75	=1q	5.85	5
Necati Er	Men's triple jump	13.65	32	Did not advance
Özkan Baltacı	Men's hammer throw	71.40	27	Did not advance
Buse Savaşkan	Women's high jump	1.92	=8 q	1.86	10
Eda Tuğsuz	Women's javelin throw	55.30	31	Did not advance
Tuğba Danışmaz	Women's triple jump	13.97	16	Did not advance
Emel Dereli	Women's shot put	17.02	24	Did not advance

Badminton

See main article: Badminton at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Badminton at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Turkey entered one badminton player into the Olympic tournament based on the BWF Race to Paris Rankings.

Boxing

See main article: article, Boxing at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Boxing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Turkey entered eight boxers (three men and five women) into the Olympic tournament. Tokyo 2020 silver medalist Buse Naz Çakıroğlu (women's flyweight) and defending champion Busenaz Sürmeneli (women's welterweight), along with four rookies (Gümüş, Erdemir, Akbaş, and Özer), secured the spots on the Turkish squad in their respective weight divisions, either by advancing to the semifinal match or finishing in the top two, at the 2023 European Games in Nowy Targ, Poland.^[5] Later on, Kaan Aykutsun (men's middleweight) qualified himself to Paris 2024, by winning the quota bouts round, at the 2024 World Olympic Qualification Tournament 1 in Busto Arsizio, Italy.^[6] Esra Yıldız (women's featherweight) secured her spot following the triumph in quota bouts round at the 2024 World Olympic Qualification Tournament 2 in Bangkok, Thailand. Tuğrulhan Erdemir remove from Boxing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 71 kg.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Samet Gümüş	Men's 51 kg		L 0–5	Did not advance			9
Kaan Aykutsun	Men's 80 kg	W 4–1	L 0–5	Did not advance			9

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Buse Naz Çakıroğlu	Women's 50 kg		W 5–0	W 5–0	W 5–0	L 1-4
Hatice Akbaş	Women's 54 kg	W 3–2	W 5–0	W 5–0	W 3–2	L 0–5
Esra Yıldız	Women's 57 kg	W 5–0	W 5–0	W 4–1	L 0–5	Did not advance
Gizem Özer	Women's 60 kg	L 1–4	Did not advance				17
Busenaz Sürmeneli	Women's 66 kg		W 4–1	L 1–4	Did not advance		5

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification.

Road

Turkey entered one male rider to compete in the men's road race events at the Olympics after securing those quotas through the UCI Nation Ranking.^[7]

Fencing

See main article: Fencing at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Fencing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. For the first time since 2016, Turkey entered two fencers into the Olympic competition. Enver Yıldırım qualified for the games by winning the gold medal in the men's individual sabre event at the 2024 Europe Zonal Qualifying Tournament in Differdange, Luxembourg.^[8] Later on, Nisanur Erbil got her quotas through the re-allocation of unused quota places.

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Enver Yıldırım	Men's sabre		L 10–15	Did not advance				26
Nisanur Erbil	Women's sabre		W 15–11	L 5–15	Did not advance			14

Gymnastics

See main article: Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification.

Artistic

Turkey fielded a squad of five male gymnasts for Paris after advancing to the final round of team all-around and obtaining one of nine available team spots for nations that had not yet qualified at the 2023 World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium.

Team (Men)

See main article: Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's artistic team all-around.

Athlete	Event	Qualification								Final
		Apparatus						Total	Rank	Apparatus						Total	Rank
Adem Asil	align=left rowspan=6	Team	13.833		14.866 Q	14.483		13.533	Colspan=8 rowspan=5
Ahmet Önder	13.733	12.766	13.066	14.300	13.833	11.800	79.498	34
Ferhat Arıcan		13.800			15.033 Q		colspan="2"
İbrahim Çolak			14.533		13.500	12.660	colspan="2"
Emre Dodanlı	12.800	11.766	12.866	14.466	13.966	13.733	79.597	31 R3
Total	40.366	38.332	42.465	44.032	42.832	39.532	247.559	9	Did not advance

Individual finals

Athlete	Event	Qualification								Final
		Apparatus						Total	Rank	Apparatus						Total	Rank
Adem Asil	Rings	Colspan=2	14.866	14.866	5 Q	Colspan=2	14.966	14.966	5
Ferhat Arıcan	Parallel bars	Colspan=4	15.033	15.033	7 Q	Colspan=4	15.100	15.100	5

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Salih Yıldız	60 kg		W 01–00	W 01–00	L 00–01		L 00–10	5
Muhammed Demirel	66 kg	L 00–01	Did not advance					17
Vedat Albayrak	81 kg	W 10–00	L 00–01	Did not advance				9
Mihael Žgank	90 kg	L 00–01	Did not advance					17
İbrahim Tataroğlu	+100 kg	W 11–00	L 00–11	Did not advance				9

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Tuğçe Beder	48 kg	L 00–10	Did not advance					17
Fidan Ögel	70 kg	L 00–10	Did not advance					17
Kayra Özdemir	+78 kg		W 10–00	W 01–00	L 00–10		L 00–10	5

Mixed

Modern pentathlon

See main article: Modern pentathlon at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Modern pentathlon at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Turkish modern pentathletes confirmed two quota places for the Olympic games. Buğra Ünal and İlke Özyüksel secured their spots in their respective event through the release of the final Olympic ranking.

Athlete	Event	Fencing (épée one touch)				Swimming (200 m freestyle)			Riding (show jumping)			Combined: shooting/running (10 m air pistol)/(3200 m)			Total points	Final rank
				Rank	MP points	Time	Rank	MP points	Penalties	Rank	MP points	Time	Rank	MP points
Buğra Ünal	Men's	20	0	=10	225	2:07.24	30	296	58.25	29	283	10:23.26	26	677	1481	25
İlke Özyüksel	Women's	16	0	15	205	2:15.48	6	280	58.94	11	293	10:58.20	3	642	1420	6

Rowing

See main article: Rowing at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Rowing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Turkey entered one rower to compete at Paris 2024.

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: Sailing at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Sailing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Turkish sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2024 ILCA 6 World Championships in Mar del Plata, Argentina; 2024 ILCA 7 World Championships in Adelaide, Australia; and 2024 Semaine Olympique Française (Last Chance Regatta) in Hyères, France.

Elimination events

Athlete	Event	Race																									Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	QF	SF1	SF2	SF3	SF4	SF5	SF6	F1	F2
Merve Vatan	Women's IQFoil	20	23	5	3	14	20	25	12	13	10	19	14	25	12	165	18
Derin Atakan	Women's Formula Kite	15	16	15	15	12	21	Colspan=10	Cancelled	Did not advance									73	16

Medal race events

Athlete	Event	Race													Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	M*
Yiğit Yalçın Çıtak	Men's ILCA 7	18	13	37	14	22	9	44	20	C	C	EL	177	23
Ecem Güzel	Women's ILCA 6	9	22	24	21	22	9	1	32	21	C	EL	129	18
Lara Nalbantoğlu Deniz Çınar	Mixed 470	14	9	15	8	18	11	14	5	C	C	EL	76	16
Beste Kaynakçı Alican Kaynar	Mixed Nacra 17	19	13	17	19	18	20	12	20	14	13	9	C	EL	172	18

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

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Shooting at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Turkish shooters achieved quota places for the following events based on their results at the 2022 and 2023 ISSF World Championships, 2022, 2023, and 2024 European Championships, 2023 European Games, and 2024 ISSF World Olympic Qualification Tournament.^[9]

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
İsmail Keleş	align=left rowspan=2	Men's 10 m air pistol	577	10	Did not advance
Yusuf Dikeç	576	13
Oğuzhan Tüzün	Men's trap	121	15	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Şimal Yılmaz	Women's 10 m air pistol	557	42	Did not advance
Women's 25 m pistol	574	28	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Şevval İlayda Tarhan	Women's 10 m air pistol	577	7 Q	135.6	7
Women's 25 m pistol	579	21	Did not advance
Rümeysa Pelin Kaya	Women's trap	117	13	Did not advance
Sena Can	Women's skeet	110	27	Did not advance

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final /
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Yusuf Dikeç Şevval İlayda Tarhan	align=left rowspan=2	10 m air pistol team	582	1 Q	L (14 - 16)
İsmail Keleş Şimal Yılmaz	569	15	Did not advance

Swimming

See main article: article, Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Turkish swimmers achieved the entry standards in the following events for Paris 2024 (a maximum of two swimmers under the Olympic Qualifying Time (OST) and potentially at the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT)):^[10]

Men's

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Berke Saka	Men's 100 m backstroke	55.85	41	Did not advance
Men's 200 m individual medley	2:01.99	17	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=3	Kuzey Tunçelli	Men's 800 m freestyle	7:47.29	11	Did not advance
Men's 1500 m freestyle	14:45.27	5 Q	14:41.22	5
Men's marathon 10 km	2:02:58.1	23
align=left rowspan=2	Emir Batur Albayrak	Men's 1500 m freestyle	15:23.21	23	Did not advance
Men's marathon 10 km
Berkay Ömer Öğretir	Men's 100 m breaststroke	1:00.36	21	Did not advance

Women's

Table tennis

See main article: Table tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Table tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Turkey entered one table tennis player into Paris 2024. Sibel Altınkaya qualified for the games by virtue of being nominated into the top twelve ranked players in the women's single class through the release of the final world ranking for Paris 2024.

Taekwondo

See main article: Taekwondo at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Taekwondo at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Turkey qualified five athletes to compete at the games. All of them qualified for Paris 2024 by virtue of finishing within the top five in the Olympic rankings in their respective division.

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Hakan Reçber	Men's −68 kg	W 2–0	L 0–2	Did not advance	L 1–2	Did not advance	7
Emre Kutalmış Ateşli	Men's +80 kg	L 0–2	Did not advance				11
Merve Kavurat	Women's −49 kg	W 2–0	L 0–2	Did not advance	W 2–0	L 0–2	5
Hatice Kübra İlgün	Women's −57 kg	L 0–2	Did not advance		L 0–2	Did not advance	7
Nafia Kuş	Women's +67 kg	W 2–1	W 2–1	L 2–0	Direct to BM	W 1–2

Volleyball

See main article: Volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Indoor

Summary

Women's tournament

See main article: Volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament. Turkey women's volleyball team qualified for the Olympics by winning the pool B round and securing one of two available berths at the 2023 Women's Olympic Qualification Tournaments in Tokyo, Japan.^[11]

Team roster

Group play--------

Quarterfinal

Semifinal

Bronze medal game

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Weightlifting at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Turkey entered one weightlifter into the Olympic competition. Muhammed Furkan Özbek (men's 73 kg) secured one of the top ten slots in his weight divisions based on the IWF Olympic Qualification Rankings.

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Wrestling at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Turkey qualified one wrestler for each of the following events. Six wrestlers qualified for the games with a top five result through the 2023 World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia;^{[12] [13]} three wrestlers qualified for the games by winning the semifinal match at the 2024 European Qualification Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan; and two wrestlers qualified for the games through the 2024 World Qualification Tournament in Istanbul, Turkey.

Men's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
İbrahim Çiftçi	97 kg	L 1-5	Did not advance				14
Taha Akgül	125 kg	W 10–0	W 8–0	L 1-2		W 7-0

Men's Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Enes Başar	60 kg	W 8–7	L 2–4	Did not advance				8
Burhan Akbudak	77 kg		L 1–2	Did not advance				10
Ali Cengiz	87 kg		L 1–3	Did not advance				10
Hamza Bakır	130 kg		L 1–3 (VBF)	Did not advance				14

Women's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Evin Demirhan Yavuz	50 kg	L 6–7	Did not advance				9
Zeynep Yetgil	53 kg	W 10–0	L 2–5 (VBF)	Did not advance			8
Nesrin Baş	62 kg	L 2–12	Did not advance				12
Buse Tosun Çavuşoğlu	68 kg	L 2-10	Did not advance		W 4-3	W 4-2
Yasemin Adar Yiğit	76 kg	W 8–2	L 0–3	Did not advance	L 1–3	Did not advance	8

See also

• Turkey at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics
• Turkey at the 2024 Summer Paralympics

Notes and References

1. Web site: A conspicuously dressed-down shooter won Olympic silver. Then he went viral . NPR . 1 August 2024.
2. News: First official Paris 2024 Olympic quotas awarded at worlds in Berlin. 8 August 2023. World Archery Federation. 17 September 2023.
3. News: Teams book places for Paris at WRW Antalya 24. World Athletics. 21 April 2024.
4. News: 20 March 2023 . The first ticket for Paris 2024 goes to Kaan Kigen Ozbilen . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20240302040957/https://olimpiyatkomitesi.org.tr/News-Detail/The-first-ticket-for-Paris-2024-goes-to-Kaan-Kigen-Ozbilen/11626 . 2 March 2024 . 4 June 2023 . Turkish National Olympic Committee.
5. News: European Games 2023: Ireland's Kellie Harrington and France's Sofiane Oumiha among stars to secure European boxing quotas for Paris 2024. International Olympic Committee. 29 June 2023. 29 June 2023.
6. Web site: Boxing 1st World Qualification Tournament - Busto Arsizio: Which boxers have obtained quotas for Paris 2024?. Olympics. 11 March 2024. 12 March 2024.
7. News: 18 October 2023 . Road cycling at París 2024: Quota distribution for next Olympic Games decided following publication of UCI World Ranking by Nations . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20231020102204/https://olympics.com/en/news/road-cycling-quota-announcement . 20 October 2023 . 20 October 2023 . International Olympic Committee.
8. News: European Olympic Qualifier Finishes in Differdange. International Fencing Federation. 1 May 2024. 7 May 2024.
9. Web site: Quota Places by Nation and Number. 1 January 2018. issf-sports.org/. ISSF. 18 September 2022.
10. Web site: Paris 2024 – Swimming Qualification. World Aquatics. 4 June 2023.
11. News: Türkiye book first Olympic ticket to Paris. FIVB. 23 September 2023. 24 September 2023.
12. News: Freestyle Wrestling: 2024 Paris Olympic Games Qualified Nations. 19 September 2023. United World Wrestling. 25 September 2023. 25 September 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230925171039/https://uww.org/article/freestyle-wrestling-2024-paris-olympic-games-qualified-nations. dead.
13. Web site: 1st Phase - 2023 Senior World Championships - Belgrade (SRB). United World Wrestling. 11 October 2023. 12 October 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231012070347/https://uww-prod-d8-filesystem.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2023-09/1st_phase_belgrade_qualified_nocs.pdf?VersionId=4Yt.hJhw2TsJsVKN8j7Z1U7JeReTbmZf. dead.