Turkey At The 2004 Summer Olympics

Turkey competed at the ''' 2004 Summer Olympics ''' in Athens, Greece under the IOC Country Code TUR. It was the nineteenth appearance of the Euro-Asian nation, which made its Olympic debut in 1908 . Turkey sent 21 female and 45 male athletes. In the Opening Ceremony , Ali Enver Adakan , a sailor, bore the Turkish Flag .

MEDALS

Turkey finished in 22nd position in the final medal rankings

Gold

Halil Mutlu — Weightlifting, Men's Flyweight (56 kg)

Taner Sagir — Weightlifting, Men's Middleweight (77 kg)

Nurcan Taylan — Weightlifting, Women's 48 kg

Silver

Atagun Yalçinkaya — Boxing, Men's Light Flyweight

Bahri Tanrikulu — Taekwondo, Men's 80 kg

Seref Eroglu — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman (66 kg)

Bronze

Esref Apak — Athletics, Men's Hammer Throw

Sedat Artuc — Weightlifting, Men's Flyweight (56 kg)

Mehmet Ozal — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman (96 kg)

Aydin Polatci — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle (120 kg)

RESULTS BY EVENT

Archery

Women's Individual Competition

Zekiye Keskin Satir – 17th place

Damla Gunay – 38th place

Natalia Nasaridze – 49th place

Men's Individual Competition

Hasan Orbay – 34th place

Women's Team Competition

Damla Gunay , Zekiye Keskin Satir , and Natalia Nasaridze – 10th place

Athletics

Men's 800 metres:

Selahattin Cobanoglu – Round 1, 1:47.8 (did not advance)

Women's 800 metres:

Binnaz Uslu – Round 1: 2:03.46

Women's 1500 metres:

Elvan Abeylegesse – Round 1: 4:06.42, Semifinal: 4:07.10, Final: 4:00.67 (8th place)

Women's 5000 metres:

Elvan Abeylegesse – Round 1: 14:54.80, Final: 15:12.64 (12th place)

Tezeta Desalgne-Surekli – Round 1: 15:26.64

Ebru Kavaklioglu – Round 1: 15:52.39

Women's Heptathlon:

Anzhela Atroshchenko – DNF (injury, withdrew after 4 events)

Women's Marathon:

Lale Ozturk – DNF

Women's 20 km Walk:

Yeliz Ay – 1:36:02 (33rd place)

Men's Triple Jump:

Berk Tuna – Round 1, no mark (did not advance)

Women's High Jump:

Candeger Kilincer Oguz – Round 1: 1.89 metres

Women's Shot Put:

Filiz Kadoğan – Round 1: 15.20 metres

Men's Discus:

Ercüment Olgundeniz – Round 1, 58.17 metres (did not advance)

Men's Hammer Throw:

Eşref Apak – 79.51 metres, Bronze Medal .

Boxing

Turkey sent eight boxers to the Olympics in Athens. Atagun Yalcinkaya won Turkey's only medal in boxing of 2004, a silver medal. This put Turkey in a four-way tie for 8th place in the boxing medal count.

Four Turkish boxers lost their first matches. Two more fell in the round of 16, while Ihsan Yildirim Tarhan made it to the quarterfinals and Yalcinkaya made it to the final before being defeated. The combined record of the eight boxers was 8-8.

Men's Light Flyweight (48 kg)

Atagun Yalcinkaya – silver medal

# Round of 32 – Defeated Jolly Katongole of Uganda , 22-7

# Round of 16 – Defeated Jeyhun Abiyev of Azerbaijan , 23-20

# Quarterfinal – Defeated Alfonso Pinto of Italy , 33-24

# Semifinal – Defeated Sergey Kazakov of Russia , 26-20

# Final – Lost to Yan Bhartelemy Varela of Cuba , 21-16

Men's Featherweight (57 kg)

Sedat Tasci

# Round of 32 – Lost to Seok Hwan Jo of Korea , 37-28

Men's Lightweight (60 kg)

Selcuk Aydin

# Round of 32 – Lost to Dimitar Stilianov of Bulgaria , 20-11

Men's Light Welterweight (64 kg)

Mustafa Karagollu

# Round of 32 – Defeated Vijendra of India , 25-20

# Round of 16 – Lost to Ionut Gheorghe of Romania , 28-19

Men's Welterweight (69 kg)

Bulent Ulusoy

# Round of 32 – Defeated Ellis Chibuye of Zambia , 45-32

# Round of 16 – Lost to Sherzod Husanov of Uzbekistan , 23-9

Men's Middleweight (75 kg)

Serdar Ustune

# Round of 32 – Lost to Sherzod Abdurahmonov of Uzbekistan , 34-16

Men's Light Heavyweight (81 kg)

Ihsan Yildirim Tarhan

# Round of 32 – Defeated Soulan Pownceby of New Zealand , outscored

# Round of 16 – Defeated Shumenov Beibut of Kazakhstan , 27-19

# Quarterfinal – Lost to Utkirbek Haydarov of Uzbekistan , 16-11

Men's Heavyweight (91 kg)

Ertugrul Ergezen

# Round of 16 – Lost to Wilmer Jose Vasquez Torres of Venezuela , walkover

Judo

Men's 66 kg:

Bektas Demirel – defeated in round of 16; repechage round of 16

Men's 100+ kg:

Selim Tataroglu – defeated in round of 16; repechage quarterfinals

Women's 48 kg:

Nese Sensoy – defeated in round of 16

Sailing

Ali Enver Adakan Men's Finn.

Ertugrul Icingir Men's Mistral.

Hasan Kaan Ozgonenc Men's 470.

Kemal Muslubas Mixed Laser.

Selim Kakis Men's 470.

Shooting

Oguzhan Tuzun Men's Trap: 21st place with 115 points.

Swimming

Aytekin Mindan Men's 400 m Freestyle, Men's 200 m Freestyle.

Derya Buyukuncu Men's 100 m Backstroke, Men's 200 m Backstroke.

Gulsah Gonenc Women's 100 m Butterfly, Women's 200 m Butterfly.

Ilkay Dikmen Women's 100 m Breaststroke, Women's 200 m Breaststroke.

Kaan Tayla Men's 100 m Freestyle, Men's 50 m Freestyle.

Oguz Orel Oral Men's 200 m Individual Medley.

Onur Uras Men's 100 m Butterfly

Ozlem Yasemin Taskin Women's 400 m Freestyle.

Sadan Derya Erke Women's 100 m Backstroke, Women's 200 m Backstroke.

Weightlifting

Women's

). Gold Medal '''.

Aylin Dasdelen 58 kg: Snatch: 100 kg, Clean and jerk: 125 kg, Total: 225 kg. 4th place.

Sibel Simsek 69 kg: Did not finish.

Men's

). Gold Medal '''.

Reyhan Arabacioglu 77 kg: 4th place.

İzzet İnce 85 kg: Did not finish

Hakan Yılmaz 94 kg: Snatch: 175 kg, Clean and jerk: 215 kg, Total: 390 kg. 6th place

Wrestling

Men's Greco-Roman style:

Coaches: Majydav Kamandar , Seçkin Saruhan , Ata Karataş -->

Ercan Yıldız 55 kg

Şeref Tüfenk 60 kg

Şeref Eroğlu 66 kg

Hamza Yerlikaya 84 kg

Mehmet Özal 96 kg

Yekta Yılmaz Gül 120 kg

Men's Freestyle

Harun Doğan 55 kg

Tevfik Odabaşı 60 kg

Ömer Çubukçı 66 kg

Gökhan Yavaşer 84 kg

Fatih Çakıroğlu 96 kg

Aydın Polatçı 120 kg

ATHLETES WHO DID NOT COMPETE

before competition.

OFFICIALS

President: Togay Bayatli

Secretary General: Nese Gundogan

EXTERNAL LINK

Turkish Olympic Committee web site

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