1972 Summer Olympics / Participant (Turkey)

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The Turkey participated in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich with a delegation of 43 athletes (42 men and one woman) to 43 competitions in eight sports part. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the wrestler Gıyasettin Yılmaz .

Participants by sport

Boxing

Men

• Arif Dogru

  Light flyweight: 1st round

• Kemal Solunur

  Flyweight: 2nd round

• Mehmet Kumova

  Bantamweight: 1st round

• Seyfi Tatar

  Featherweight: 2nd round

• Eraslan Doruk

  Lightweight: quarter-finals

• Hakkı Sözen

  Welterweight: 2nd round

• Nazif Kuran

  Middleweight: quarterfinals

fencing

Men Bülent Erdem Foil, singles: preliminary round Ali Tayla Epee, singles: preliminary round Mehmet Akpınar Saber, singles: preliminary round

Women Özden Ezinler Foil, singles: preliminary round

Weightlifting

Men

• İsmail Bayram

  Middleweight: 16th place

• Osman Mert

  Middle heavyweight: 15th place

athletics

Men

• Mehmet Tümkan

  800 meters: heats

  1500 meters: heats

• Hikmet Şen

  5000 meters: heats

  10,000 meters: heats

• İsmail Akçay

  Marathon: DNF

Cycling

Men

• Mevlut Bora

  Road race: DNF

  100 kilometers team time trial: 24th place

• Rıfat Çalışkan

  Road race: DNF

• Haluk Günözgen

  Road race: DNF

• Ali Hüryilmaz

  Road race: 73rd place

  100 kilometers team time trial: 24th place

• Seyit Kırmızı

  100 kilometers team time trial: 24th place

• Erol Küçükbakırcı

  100 kilometers team time trial: 24th place

Wrestling

Men

• Hizir sari

  Light flyweight, Greco-Roman: 3rd round

• Ahmet Tren

  Flyweight, Greco-Roman: 3rd round

• Metin Alakoç

  Featherweight, Greco-Roman: 2nd round

• Seyyit Hışırlı

  Lightweight, Greco-Roman: 6th place

• Mehmet Türüt

  Greterweight, Greco-Roman: 3rd round

• Ali Yagmur

  Middleweight, Greco-Roman: 4th round

• Sefer Baygin

  Light flyweight, freestyle: 4th place

• Ali Riza Alan

  Flyweight, freestyle: 4th round

• Kazım Yıldırım

  Bantamweight, freestyle: 2nd round

• Vehbi Akdağ

  Featherweight, freestyle: silver

• Ali Şahin

  Lightweight, freestyle: 4th place

• Mehmet Ali Demirtaş

  Welterweight, freestyle: 3rd round

• Hayri Polat

  Middleweight, freestyle: 3rd round

• Mehmet Güçlü

  Light heavyweight, freestyle: 4th round

• Giyasettin Yilmaz

  Super heavyweight, freestyle: 3rd round

shoot

• Mehmet Dursun

  Small caliber, three-position fight: 58th place

  Small caliber, lying: 35th place

• Fettah Güney

  Trap: 40th place

• Özman Gıraud

  Skeet: 28th place

• Güneş Yunus

  Skeet: 30th place

swim

Men

• Feridun Aybars

  100 meters freestyle: prelims

  100 meter butterfly: prelims

• Morkal Faruk

  100 meter chest: heats

  200 meters chest: heats

Web links

• Turkish Olympic team from 1972 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )