1976 Summer Olympics / Participant (Turkey)

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The Turkey participated in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal with a delegation of 27 athletes (26 men and one woman) to 27 competitions in eight sports part.

None of the athletes managed to win a medal, which is the first time Turkey has been without a medal since the 1928 Summer Olympics . The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was the judoka Süheyl Yeşilnur .

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Ali Canay

  Light flyweight: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Kemal Solunur

  Bantamweight: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Sabahattin Burcu

  Light welterweight: eliminated in the 2nd round

Weightlifting

• Kemal Başkır

  Lightweight: 12th place

• Mehmet Suvar

  Light heavyweight: 12th place

Judo

• Süheyl Yeşilnur

  Lightweight: eliminated in the last sixteen

• Osman Yanar

  Light middleweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Rafet Güngör

  Middleweight: 7th place

athletics

Men

• Huseyin Aktaş

  Marathon: 37th place

• Veli Balli

  Marathon: 38th place

Cycling

• Erol Küçükbakırcı

  Track 1000 m time trial: 23rd place

  Track 4000 m single pursuit: 23rd place

Wrestling

• Kuddusi Ozdemir

  Light flyweight, freestyle: 7th place

• Kamil Özdağ

  Flyweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Vehbi Akdağ

  Featherweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 3rd round

• Mehmet Sari

  Lightweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Yakup Topuz

  Welterweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Mehmet Uzun

  Middleweight, freestyle: 4th place

• İsmail Temiz

  Light heavyweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Salih Bora

  Light flyweight, Greco-Roman: 7th place

• Bilal Tabur

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

• Mehmet Uysal

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

• Erol Mutlu

  Lightweight, Greco-Roman: 7th place

shoot

• Akin Ersoy

  Free pistol 50 m: 18th place

• Mehmet Dursun

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 47th place

• Güneş Yunus

  Skeet: 44th place

Diving

Men

• Ahmet Kizil

  3 m jumping: 28th place

Women

• Peri Suzan Özkum

  3 m jumping: 27th place

Web links

• Turkish Olympic team from 1976 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )