2000 Summer Olympics / Participant (Turkey)

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The Turkey participated in the Summer Olympics in 2000 in Sydney part. 57 athletes, 42 men and 15 women, competed in a total of 58 competitions in ten sports. A total of three gold medals and two bronze medals were won, placing Turkey in 26th place in the medal table. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the wrestler Hamza Yerlikaya .

Medalist

gold

Surname	sport	competition
Halil Mutlu	Weightlifting	Men, bantam weight (up to 56 kg)
Hüseyin Özkan	Judo	Men, half light weight (up to 66 kg)
Hamza Yerlikaya	Wrestling	Men, middleweight, Greco-Roman (up to 85 kg)

bronze

Surname	sport	competition
Adem Bereket	Wrestling	Men, welterweight, freestyle (up to 76 kg)
Hamide Bıkçın Tosun	Taekwondo	Women, class up to 57 kg

Participants by sport

Archery

• Ozdemir Akbal

  Men, singles: 59th place

  Men, team: 5th place

• Elif Altınkaynak

  Women, singles: 28th place

  Women, team: 4th place

• Zekiye Keskin Şatır

  Women, singles: 35th place

  Women, team: 4th place

• Natalia Nasaridze-Çakir

  Women, singles: 42nd place

  Women, team: 4th place

• Hasan Orbay

  Men, singles: 18th place

  Men, team: 5th place

• Serdar Şatir

  Men, singles: 44th place

  Men, team: 5th place

Boxing

• Ramazan Ballioğlu

  Light flyweight: 17th place

• Fırat Karagöllü

  Light middleweight: 9th place

• Akın Kuloğlu

  Middleweight: 7th place

• Ağası Məmmədov

  Bantamweight: 5th place

• Ramaz Paliani

  Featherweight: 5th place

• Selim Paliani

  Lightweight: 7th place

• Nurhan Suleymanoglu

  Light welterweight: 9th place

• Halil İbrahim Turan

  Flyweight: 17th place

• Bulent Ulusoy

  Welterweight: 8th place

Weightlifting

• Abdul Aziz Alpak

  Men, heavyweight: DNF

• Yasin Arslan

  Men, lightweight: 14th place

• Ayhan Çiçek

  Men, middleweight: 13th place

• Halil Mutlu

  Men, bantamweight: gold

• Bünyamin Sudaş

  Men, middle heavyweight: 7th place

• Naim Suleymanoglu

  Men, featherweight: DNF

• Mehmet Yılmaz

  Men, middleweight: 10th place

Judo

• Hüseyin Özkan

  Men, half light weight: gold

• Neşe Şensoy Yıldız

  Women, extra light weight: quarter-finals

• Selim Tataroglu

  Men, heavyweight: 5th place

athletics

• Serap Aktaş

  Women, marathon: 37th place

• Süreyya Ayhan

  Women, 1500 meters: semi-finals

• Ebru Kavaklıoğlu

  Women, 5000 meters: heats

• Oksana Mert

  Women, discus throw: 27th place in qualification

• Mesut Yavaş

  Men, long jump: 42nd place in qualification

Wrestling

• Nazmi Avluca

  Class up to 76 kg, Greco-Roman: 13th place

• Fatih Bakir

  Class up to 130 kg, Greco-Roman: 8th place

• Hakkı Başar

  Class up to 97 kg, Greco-Roman: 16th place

• Adem Bereket

  Class up to 76 kg, freestyle: bronze

• Harun Dogan

  Class up to 58 kg, freestyle: 15th place

• Ahmet Dogu

  Class up to 97 kg, freestyle: 16th place

• Şeref Eroğlu

  Class up to 63 kg, Greco-Roman: 10th place

• Ali Özen

  Class up to 85 kg, freestyle: 18th place

• Aydın Polatçı

  Class up to 130 kg, freestyle: 11th place

• Yüksel Şanlı

  Class up to 69 kg, freestyle: 9th place

• Hamza Yerlikaya

  Class up to 85 kg, Greco-Roman: Gold

• Ercan Yıldız

  Class up to 54 kg, Greco-Roman: 11th place

shoot

• Ayşe Kil

  Women, sport pistol: 25th place

• Oğuzhan Tüzün

  Men, Trap: 30th place

  Men, double trap: 21st place

swim

• Derya Büyükuncu

  Men, 100 meters back: 17th place

• Ayşe Diker

  Women, 100 meters butterfly: 43rd place

• İlkay Dikmen

  Women, 100 meters chest: 23rd place

  Women, 200 meters chest: 24th place

• Şadan Derya Erke

  Women, 100 meters back: 42nd place

  Women, 200 meters back: 29th place

• Hakan Kiper

  Men, 100 meters chest: 60th place

• Aytekin Mindan

  Men, 200 meters freestyle: 42nd place

  Men, 400 meters freestyle: 39th place

• Ugur Orel Oral

  Men, 200 meter medley: 48th place

sailing

• Ali Enver Adakan

  Men, Finn dinghy: 8th place

• İlknur Akdoğan

  Women, windsurfing: 28th place

• Ertuğrul İçingir

  Men, windsurfing: 31st place

• Ali Kemal Tüfekçi

  Laser: 34th place

Taekwondo

• Hamide Bıkçın

  Women, featherweight: bronze

• Döndü Güvenc

  Women, flyweight: 5th place

Web links

• Turkish Olympic team from 2000 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )