1960 Summer Olympics / Participant (Turkey)

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The Turkey participated in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome with a delegation of 49 athletes (46 men and 3 women) in 41 competitions in six sports part.

The Turkish athletes won seven gold and two silver medals, all in wrestling. In the medal table of the games, Turkey placed sixth. Olympic champions were Müzahir Sille (featherweight), Mithat Bayrak (welterweight) and Tevfik Kış (light heavyweight) in the Greco-Roman style as well as Ahmet Bilek (flyweight), Mustafa Dağıstanlı (featherweight), Hasan Güngör (middleweight) and İsmet Atlı (light heavyweight) in freestyle . The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the athlete Nuri Turan .

Participants by sport

Soccer

• eliminated in the group stage

  Aydoğan Çipiloğlu

  Mustafa Ertan

  Cavit Gökalp

  Ugur Köken

  Ahmet Tuna Kozan

  Emrullah Küçükbay

  Suat Özyazıcı

  Zeki Şensan

  Selim Soydan

  Ergun Taner

  Bilge Tarhan

  Samim Uygun

  İbrahim Yalçınkaya

  Turhan Yıldız

athletics

Men

• Aydin Onur

  100 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Fahir Özgüden

  400 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

  400 m hurdles: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Ekrem Koçak

  800 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Muharrem Dalkılıç

  1500 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

  5000 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Fevzi Pakel

  10,000 m: 29th place

• Çetin Şahiner

  110 m hurdles: eliminated in the preliminary run

  High jump: eliminated in qualification

• Cahit oil

  3000 m obstacle: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Orhan Altan

  Pole vault: eliminated in qualification

• Yıldıray Pağda

  Triple jump: eliminated in qualification

• Yalçın Ünsal

  Long jump: eliminated in qualification

Women

• Aycan Oil

  100 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

  Long jump: eliminated in qualification

• Gül Çiray

  800 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Canel Konvur

  High jump: eliminated in qualification

horse riding

• Cevdet Sumer

  Show jumping: 15th place

  Show jumping team: eliminated

• Nail Gönenlı

  Show jumping: 31st place

  Show jumping team: eliminated

• Salih Koç

  Show jumping: eliminated

  Show jumping team: eliminated

Wrestling

• Ahmet Bilek

  Flyweight, freestyle: gold

• Hüseyin Akbaş

  Bantamweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 3rd round

• Mustafa Dağıstanlı

  Featherweight, freestyle: gold

• Hayrullah Şahinkaya

  Lightweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 4th round

• İsmail Ogan

  Welterweight, freestyle: silver

• Hasan Güngör

  Middleweight, Freestyle: Gold

• İsmet Atlı

  Light Heavyweight, Freestyle: Gold

• Hamit Kaplan

  Heavyweight, freestyle: silver

• Kazim Gedik

  Flyweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Yaşar Yılmaz

  Bantamweight, Greco-Roman: 5th place

• Müzahir Sille

  Featherweight, Greco-Roman: gold

• Adil Güngör

  Lightweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 4th round

• Mithat Bayrak

  Welterweight, Greco-Roman: gold

• Kâzım Ayvaz

  Middleweight, Greco-Roman: 4th place

• Tevfik Kış

  Light Heavyweight, Greco-Roman: Gold

• Tan Tarı

  Heavyweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 2nd round

swim

Men

• Ünsal Fikirci

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  100 m back: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Engin Unal

  200 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

sailing

• Ersin Demir

  Finn dinghy: 27th place

Web links

• Turkish Olympic team from 1960 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )