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

• Fuat Temel

  Light flyweight: eliminated in the round of 16

• Engin Yadigar

  Flyweight: eliminated in the round of 16

• Seyfi Tatar

  Featherweight: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Yeter Sevimlı

  Lightweight: eliminated in the last sixteen

• Ali Kılıçoğlu

  Light welterweight: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Celal sandal

  Welterweight: Eliminated in the quarterfinals

athletics

Men

• Huseyin Aktaş

  Marathon: 25th place

• İsmail Akçay

  Marathon: 4th place

• Nurullah Candan

  High jump: 38th place

• Aşkın Tuna

  Triple jump: 25th place

Wrestling

• Mehmet Esenceli

  Flyweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Hasan Sevinç

  Bantamweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 4th round

• Vehbi Akdağ

  Featherweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 4th round

• Seyyit Ahmet Ağralı

  Lightweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 4th round

• Mahmut Atalay

  Welterweight, freestyle: gold

• Huseyin Gursoy

  Middleweight, freestyle: 5th place

• Ahmet Ayık

  Light Heavyweight, Freestyle: Gold

• Gıyasettin Yılmaz

  Heavyweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 1st round

• Metin Çıkmaz

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

• Kaya Öczan

  Bantamweight, Greco-Roman: 6th place

• Metin Alakoç

  Featherweight, Greco-Roman: 5th place

• Kâzım Ayvaz

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

• Sırrı Acar

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

• Tevfik Kış

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

• Gürbüz Lü

  Light heavyweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Bekir Aksu

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

shoot

• Turk Özenbaş

  Free pistol 50 m: 52nd place

• Mehmet Dursun

  Small bore rifle, three-position fight, 50 m: 54th place

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 51st place

• Metin Salihoğlu

  Trap: 30th place

Web links

• Turkish Olympic team from 1968 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )