1964 Summer Olympics / Participant (Turkey)

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The Turkey participated in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in part with a delegation of 23 male athletes in 24 competitions in four sports.

The Turkish athletes won two gold and three silver medals as well as one bronze medal. As four years earlier, all medals were won in wrestling. Olympic champions were İsmail Ogan (welterweight) and Kâzım Ayvaz (lightweight) in Greco-Roman style, silver won Hüseyin Akbaş (bantamweight), Hasan Güngör (middleweight) and Ahmet Ayık (light heavyweight) in freestyle. The bronze medal went to Hamit Kaplan (heavyweight) in freestyle. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the athlete Çetin Şahiner .

Participants by sport

Weightlifting

• Sadık Pekünlü

  Light Heavyweight: 11th place

athletics

Men

• Muharrem Dalkılıç

  5000 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

  10,000 m: race not finished

• Çetin Şahiner

  110 m hurdles: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Cahit oil

  3000 m obstacle: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Aşkın Tuna

  Triple jump: 23rd place

Wrestling

• Cemal Yanılmaz

  Flyweight, freestyle: 4th place

• Hüseyin Akbaş

  Bantamweight, freestyle: silver

• Hayrullah Şahinkaya

  Featherweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Mahmut Atalay

  Lightweight, freestyle: 4th place

• İsmail Ogan

  Welterweight, freestyle: gold

• Hasan Güngör

  Middleweight, freestyle: silver

• Ahmet Ayık

  Light heavyweight, freestyle: silver

• Hamit Kaplan

  Heavyweight, freestyle: bronze

• Burhan Bozkurt

  Flyweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 3rd round

• Ünver Beşergil

  Bantamweight, Greco-Roman: 8th place

• Müzahir Sille

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

• Kâzım Ayvaz

  Lightweight, Greco-Roman: gold

• Mithat Bayrak

  Welterweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 3rd round

• Yavuz Selekman

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

• Gıyasettin Yılmaz

  Light heavyweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 4th round

• Hamit Kaplan

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

sailing

• Haluk Kakış

  Finn dinghy: 25th place

• Erdoğan Arsal

  Flying Dutchman: 20th place

• Metin Akdurak

  Flying Dutchman: 20th place

Web links

• Turkish Olympic team from 1964 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )