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
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Arif Dogru
- Light flyweight: 1st round
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Kemal Solunur
- Flyweight: 2nd round
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Mehmet Kumova
- Bantamweight: 1st round
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Seyfi Tatar
- Featherweight: 2nd round
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Eraslan Doruk
- Lightweight: quarter-finals
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Hakkı Sözen
- Welterweight: 2nd round
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Nazif Kuran
- Middleweight: quarterfinals
fencing
Men
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Women
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Weightlifting
Men
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İsmail Bayram
- Middleweight: 16th place
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Osman Mert
- Middle heavyweight: 15th place
athletics
Men
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Mehmet Tümkan
- 800 meters: heats
- 1500 meters: heats
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Hikmet Şen
- 5000 meters: heats
- 10,000 meters: heats
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İsmail Akçay
- Marathon: DNF
Cycling
Men
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Mevlut Bora
- Road race: DNF
- 100 kilometers team time trial: 24th place
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Rıfat Çalışkan
- Road race: DNF
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Haluk Günözgen
- Road race: DNF
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Ali Hüryilmaz
- Road race: 73rd place
- 100 kilometers team time trial: 24th place
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Seyit Kırmızı
- 100 kilometers team time trial: 24th place
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Erol Küçükbakırcı
- 100 kilometers team time trial: 24th place
Wrestling
Men
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Hizir sari
- Light flyweight, Greco-Roman: 3rd round
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Ahmet Tren
- Flyweight, Greco-Roman: 3rd round
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Metin Alakoç
- Featherweight, Greco-Roman: 2nd round
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Seyyit Hışırlı
- Lightweight, Greco-Roman: 6th place
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Mehmet Türüt
- Greterweight, Greco-Roman: 3rd round
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Ali Yagmur
- Middleweight, Greco-Roman: 4th round
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Sefer Baygin
- Light flyweight, freestyle: 4th place
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Ali Riza Alan
- Flyweight, freestyle: 4th round
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Kazım Yıldırım
- Bantamweight, freestyle: 2nd round
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Vehbi Akdağ
- Featherweight, freestyle: silver
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Ali Şahin
- Lightweight, freestyle: 4th place
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Mehmet Ali Demirtaş
- Welterweight, freestyle: 3rd round
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Hayri Polat
- Middleweight, freestyle: 3rd round
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Mehmet Güçlü
- Light heavyweight, freestyle: 4th round
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Giyasettin Yilmaz
- Super heavyweight, freestyle: 3rd round
shoot
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Mehmet Dursun
- Small caliber, three-position fight: 58th place
- Small caliber, lying: 35th place
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Fettah Güney
- Trap: 40th place
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Özman Gıraud
- Skeet: 28th place
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Güneş Yunus
- Skeet: 30th place
swim
Men
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Feridun Aybars
- 100 meters freestyle: prelims
- 100 meter butterfly: prelims
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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 )