1996 Summer Olympics / Participant (Turkey)

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The Turkey took part in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , USA , with a delegation of 53 athletes (44 men and nine women) part.

Medalist

With four won gold, a silver and a bronze medal, the Turkish team took 19th place in the medal table .

gold

Name / s	sport	competition
Halil Mutlu	Weightlifting	Flyweight
Naim Suleymanoglu	Weightlifting	Featherweight
Mahmut Demir	Wrestling	Super heavyweight, freestyle
Hamza Yerlikaya	Wrestling	Middleweight, Greco-Roman

silver

Name / s	sport	competition
Malik Beyleroğlu	Boxing	medium weight

bronze

Name / s	sport	competition
Mehmet Akif Pirim	Wrestling	Featherweight, Greco-Roman

Participants by sport

Archery

• Okyay Küçükkayalar

  Individual: 59th place

• Elif Altınkaynak

  Women, singles: 4th place

  Women, team: 4th place

• Natalia Nasaridze-Çakir

  Women, singles: 21st place

  Women, team: 4th place

• Elif Ekşi

  Women, singles: 47th place

  Women, team: 4th place

Boxing

• Yasar Giritli

  Light flyweight: 17th place

• Soner Karagöz

  Bantamweight: 17th place

• Serdar Yağlı

  Featherweight: 17th place

• Vahdettin İşsever

  Lightweight: 17th place

• Nurhan Suleymanoglu

  Light welterweight: 9th place

• Cahit Süme

  Welterweight: 17th place

• Malik Beyleroğlu

  Middleweight: silver

• Yusuf Öztürk

  Light heavyweight: 17th place

Weightlifting

• Halil Mutlu

  Flyweight: gold

• Hafız Süleymanoğlu

  Bantamweight: competition not ended

• Naim Suleymanoglu

  Featherweight: gold

• Mücahit Yağcı

  Featherweight: 7th place

• Ergun Batmaz

  Lightweight: 11th place

• Mehmet Yılmaz

  Middleweight: competition not finished

• Dursun Sevinç

  Lightweight: 7th place

• Sunay Bulut

  Middle heavyweight: 4th place

• Erdinç Aslan

  Super heavyweight: 11th place

Judo

• Bektaş Demirel

  Half light weight: 21st place

• Salim Abanoz

  Lightweight: 13th place

• Iraklı Uznadze

  Light middleweight: 7th place

• Selim Tataroglu

  Heavyweight: 13th place

• Hülya Şenyurt

  Women, paper weight: 19th place

• İlknur Kobaş

  Women, light middleweight: 5th place

athletics

• Alper Kasapoğlu

  Decathlon: 29th place

• Serap Aktaş

  Women, marathon: 23rd place

• Aysel Taş

  Women, javelin: 18th place in qualification

Wrestling

• Bayram Ozdemir

  Paper weight, Greco-Roman: 11th place

• Şeref Eroğlu

  Bantamweight, Greco-Roman: 17th place

• Mehmet Akif Pirim

  Featherweight, Greco-Roman: bronze

• Yalçın Karapınar

  Lightweight, Greco-Roman: 11th place

• Nazmi Avluca

  Greterweight, Greco-Roman: 13th place

• Hamza Yerlikaya

  Middleweight, Greco-Roman: gold

• Hakkı Başar

  Light heavyweight, Greco-Roman: 5th place

• Metin Topaktaş

  Flyweight, freestyle: 6th place

• Harun Dogan

  Bantamweight, freestyle: 4th place

• Yüksel Şanlı

  Lightweight, freestyle: 15th place

• Turan Ceylan

  Welterweight, freestyle: 18th place

• Sebahattin Öztürk

  Middleweight, freestyle: 4th place

• Mahmut Demir

  Super heavyweight, freestyle: gold

shoot

• Alp Kızılsu

  Trap: 49th place

  Double trap: 31st place

swim

• Kaan Berberoğlu

  50 meters freestyle: 51st place

• Can Ergenekan

  400 meters freestyle: 27th place

  200 meter butterfly: 27th place

• Derya Büyükuncu

  100 meters back: 19th place

  200 meters back: 21st place

  100 meter butterfly: 27th place

• Nida Zuhal

  Women, 100 meters butterfly: 36th place

  Women, 200 meters butterfly: 26th place

sailing

• Kutlu Torunlar

  Windsurfing: 22nd place

• Şükrü Sanus

  470: 34th place

• Kerem Özkan

  470: 34th place

• Alp Alpagut

  Laser: 40th place

• Ayşe Sözeri

  Women, windsurfing: 25th place

Web links

• Turkish Olympic Team from 1996 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )