1968 Summer Olympics / Participant (Turkey)
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The Turkey participated in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City with a delegation of 29 male athletes in 29 sports competitions in four part.
The Turkish athletes won two gold medals. Olympic champions were the freestyle wrestlers Mahmut Atalay in the welterweight division and Ahmet Ayık in the light heavyweight division. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the wrestler Gürbüz Lü .
Participants by sport
Boxing
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Fuat Temel
- Light flyweight: eliminated in the round of 16
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Engin Yadigar
- Flyweight: eliminated in the round of 16
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Seyfi Tatar
- Featherweight: eliminated in the quarterfinals
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Yeter Sevimlı
- Lightweight: eliminated in the last sixteen
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Ali Kılıçoğlu
- Light welterweight: eliminated in the 2nd round
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Celal sandal
- Welterweight: Eliminated in the quarterfinals
athletics
- Men
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Huseyin Aktaş
- Marathon: 25th place
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İsmail Akçay
- Marathon: 4th place
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Nurullah Candan
- High jump: 38th place
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Aşkın Tuna
- Triple jump: 25th place
Wrestling
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Mehmet Esenceli
- Flyweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 2nd round
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Hasan Sevinç
- Bantamweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 4th round
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Vehbi Akdağ
- Featherweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 4th round
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Seyyit Ahmet Ağralı
- Lightweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 4th round
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Mahmut Atalay
- Welterweight, freestyle: gold
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Huseyin Gursoy
- Middleweight, freestyle: 5th place
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Ahmet Ayık
- Light Heavyweight, Freestyle: Gold
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Gıyasettin Yılmaz
- Heavyweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 1st round
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Metin Çıkmaz
- Flyweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 4th round
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Kaya Öczan
- Bantamweight, Greco-Roman: 6th place
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Metin Alakoç
- Featherweight, Greco-Roman: 5th place
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Kâzım Ayvaz
- Lightweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 3rd round
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Sırrı Acar
- Welterweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 3rd round
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Tevfik Kış
- Middleweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 4th round
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Gürbüz Lü
- Light heavyweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 2nd round
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Bekir Aksu
- Heavyweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 2nd round
shoot
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Turk Özenbaş
- Free pistol 50 m: 52nd place
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Mehmet Dursun
- Small bore rifle, three-position fight, 50 m: 54th place
- Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 51st place
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Metin Salihoğlu
- Trap: 30th place
Web links
- Turkish Olympic team from 1968 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )