1988 Summer Olympics / Participant (Turkey)

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The Turkey participated in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with a delegation of 41 athletes (36 men and five women) in 40 competitions in nine sports part. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the wrestler Necmi Gençalp .

Medalist

gold

Surname	sport	competition
Naim Suleymanoglu	Weightlifting	Men, featherweight

silver

Surname	sport	competition
Necmi Gençalp	Wrestling	Men, middleweight, freestyle

Participants by sport

Archery

Men Izzet Avci Singles: 61st place Team: 14th place Vedat Erbay Individual: 22nd place Team: 14th place Kerem Ersü Singles: 34th place Team: 14th place

Women Elif Ekşi Singles: 42nd place Team: 14th place Huriye Ekşi Singles: 41st place Team: 14th place Selda Ünsal Singles: 50th place Team: 14th place

Boxing

• Ali Çelikiz

  Featherweight: 1st round

• Ramazan Gul

  Flyweight: 2nd round

• Kibar tartare

  Lightweight: 2nd round

• Vedat tutuk

  Bantamweight: 2nd round

Weightlifting

• Ergun Batmaz

  Lightweight: 5th place

• Levent Erdoğan

  Flyweight: 16th place

• Ali Eroğlu

  Lightweight: 8th place

• Şahin crowd

  Middleweight: 15th place

• Naim Suleymanoglu

  Featherweight: gold

Judo

• Alpaslan Ayan

  Lightweight: 19th place

• Temel Çakiroğlu

  Light middleweight: 14th place

• Haldun Efemgil

  Ultra light weight: 20th place

• Yavuz Yolcu

  Half light weight: 20th place

athletics

Men Ahmet Altun Marathon: 71st place Zeki Öztürk 1500 meters: heats Mehmet Terzi Marathon: 32nd place

Women Semra Aksu 400 meter hurdles: prelims

Wrestling

• Ahmet Ak

  Bantamweight, freestyle: 4th place

• Erhan Balci

  Greterweight, Greco-Roman: 3rd round

• Necmi Gençalp

  Middleweight, freestyle: silver

• Selman Kaygusuz

  Featherweight, freestyle: 3rd round

• Erol Kemah

  Flyweight, Greco-Roman: 3rd round

• Sumer Koçak

  Lightweight, Greco-Roman: 4th round

• Zeki Şahin

  Featherweight, Greco-Roman: 3rd round

• Fevzi Şeker

  Lightweight, freestyle: 4th round

• Arslan Seyhanli

  Flyweight, freestyle: 5th place

• Hayri Sezgin

  Heavyweight, freestyle: 3rd round

• İlyas Şükrüoğlu

  Light flyweight, freestyle: 6th place

• Mehmet Türkkaya

  Light heavyweight, freestyle: 4th round

shoot

Open class Mehmet Bülent Torpil Skeet: 13th place

Women Zeynep Oka Air rifle: 28th place

swim

• Hakan Eskioğlu

  50 meter freestyle: 50th place

  100 meters freestyle: 52nd place

  200 meters freestyle: 52nd place

  200 meter medley: 39th place

• Murat Tahir

  50 meter freestyle: 42nd place

  100 meters freestyle: 44th place

sailing

• Halit Haluk Babacan

  Finn dinghy: 24th place

• İbrahim Kakiş

  Windsurfing: 34th place

Web links

• Turkish Olympic team from 1988 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )