Turkey at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Turkey competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Hüseyin Özkan	Judo	Men's Half Lightweight (66 kg)
Gold	Halil Mutlu	Weightlifting	Men's Flyweight (56 kg)
Gold	Hamza Yerlikaya	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman Middleweight (85 kg)
Bronze	Hamide Bıkçın Tosun	Taekwondo	Women's (57 kg)
Bronze	Adem Bereket	Wrestling	Men's Freestyle Welterweight (76 kg)

Results by event

Archery

In its fifth Olympic archery competition, Turkey again came within one victory of a medal. The women's team again made it to the semifinal before losing there. In the bronze medal match, they were defeated by Germany to eliminate them from medal contention.

Men's individual
	Hasan Orbay			Serdar Şatır			Özdemir Akbal
1/32 eliminations	Defeated	Juan Carlos Manjarrez Godinez Mexico	165-153	Lost to	Sebastien Flute France	160-156	Lost to	Scott Hunter-Russell Australia	154-146
1/16 eliminations	Lost to	Yong-Ho Jang Korea	169-160	-	-	-	-	-	-

Women's individual
	Elif Altınkaynak			Zekiye Keskin Şatır			Natalia Nasaridze
1/32 eliminations	Defeated	Jennifer Chan Philippines	160-143	Lost to	Nataliya Burdeyna Ukraine	166-157	Lost to	Kirstin Lewis South Africa	154-153
1/16 eliminations	Lost to	Alison Williamson Great Britain	157-154	-	-	-	-	-	-

Women's Team Competition:

• Altankaynak, Keskin Şatır, Nasaridze — bronze medal match, 4th place (2-2)

Men's Team Competition:

• Orbay, Satir, and Akbal — quarterfinal, 5th place (1-1)

Athletics

Men's competition

Men's Long Jump

• Mesut Yavaş

• Qualifying — 7.35 m (did not advance)

Men's Pole Vault

• Ruhan Işım

• Qualifying — NM (did not advance)

Women's competition

Women's 1,500m

• Süreyya Ayhan

• Round 1 — 04:08.37
• Semifinal — 04:09.42 (did not advance)

Women's 5,000m

• Ebru Kavaklıoğlu

• Round 1 — 15:49.15 (did not advance)

Women's Discus

• Oksana Mert

• Qualifying — 55.02 m (did not advance)

Women's Marathon

• Serap Aktaş

• Final — 2:42:40 (37th place)

Boxing

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)

• Ramazan Ballıoğlu
  • Round 1 — Lost to Marian Velicu of Romania (→ did not advance)

Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)

• Halil İbrahim Turan
  • Round 1 — Lost to Hicham Mesbahi of Morocco (→ did not advance)

Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg)

• Agasi Agaguloglu
  • Round 1 — Defeated Kangde Mai of China
  • Round 2 — Defeated Cermeno Nehomar of Venezuela
  • Quarterfinal — Lost to Guillermo Rigondeaux of Cuba (→ did not advance)

Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg)

• Ramazan Palyani
  • Round 1 — Defeated Ali Haider of Pakistan
  • Round 2 — Defeated Vlademir Dos Santos Pereira of Brazil
  • Quarterfinal — Lost to Bekzat Sattarkhanov of Kazakhstan (→ did not advance)

Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg)

• Selim Palyani
  • Round 1 — Defeated Abdel Jebahi of France
  • Round 2 — Defeated David Jackson of United States
  • Quarterfinal — Lost to Alexandr Maletin of Russia (→ did not advance)

Men's Light Welterweight (– 63.5 kg)

• Nurhan Süleymanoğlu
  • Round 1 — Defeated Michael Strange of Canada
  • Round 2 — Lost to Sergey Bykovsky of Belarus (→ did not advance)

Men's Welterweight (– 67 kg)

• Bülent Ulusoy
  • Round 1 — Defeated Jin-Suk Bae of Korea
  • Round 2 — Defeated Dante Craig of United States
  • Quarterfinal — Lost to Vitalie Gruşac of Moldova (→ did not advance)

Men's Light Middleweight (– 71 kg)

• Fırat Karagöllü
  • Round 1 — Defeated Michael Roche of Ireland
  • Round 2 — Lost to Frédéric Esther of France (→ did not advance)

Men's Middleweight (– 75 kg)

• Akın Kuloğlu
  • Round 1 — Defeated Mariano Natalio Carrera of Argentina
  • Round 2 — Defeated Im Jung-Bin of Korea
  • Quarterfinal — Lost to Vugar Alekperov of Azerbaijan (→ did not advance)

Sailing

Men's Mistral

• Ertuğrul İçingir

• Race 1 — 26
• Race 2 — (37) OCS
• Race 3 — 24
• Race 4 — 11
• Race 5 — 15
• Race 6 — 28
• Race 7 — 29
• Race 8 — 25
• Race 9 — (37) OCS
• Race 10 — 22
• Race 11 — 37 DSQ
• Final — 217 (31st place)

Men's Single Handed Dinghy (Finn)

• Ali Enver Adakan

• Race 1 — 5
• Race 2 — 7
• Race 3 — (17)
• Race 4 — 7
• Race 5 — 9
• Race 6 — (23)
• Race 7 — 11
• Race 8 — 3
• Race 9 — 4
• Race 10 — 7
• Race 11 — 13
• Final — 66 (8th place)

Women's Mistral

• İlknur Akdoğan

• Race 1 — (30) DNF
• Race 2 — 27
• Race 3 — (28)
• Race 4 — 28
• Race 5 — 26
• Race 6 — 25
• Race 7 — 28
• Race 8 — 28
• Race 9 — 27
• Race 10 — 28
• Race 11 — 24
• Final — 241 (28th place)

Open Laser

• Ali Kemal Tüfekçi

• Race 2 — (40)
• Race 3 — 33
• Race 4 — (37)
• Race 5 — 29
• Race 6 — 28
• Race 7 — 36
• Race 8 — 30
• Race 9 — 14
• Race 10 — 24
• Race 11 — 27
• Final — 254 (34th place)

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Men's 200 m Freestyle

• Aytekin Mindan

• Preliminary Heat — 1:54.86 (did not advance)

Men's 400 m Freestyle

• Aytekin Mindan

• Preliminary Heat — 04:01.46 (did not advance)

Men's 100 m Breaststroke

• Hakan Kiper

• Preliminary Heat — 01:07.46 (did not advance)

Men's 100 m Backstroke

• Derya Büyükuncu

• Preliminary Heat — 56.21 (did not advance)

Men's 200 m Individual Medley

• Orel Oral

• Preliminary Heat — 02:09.51 (did not advance)

Women's 100 m Butterfly

• Ayse Diker

• Preliminary Heat — 01:04.65 (did not advance)

Women's 100 m Breaststroke

• İlkay Dikmen

• Preliminary Heat — 01:11.51 (did not advance)

Women's 200 m Breaststroke

• İlkay Dikmen

• Preliminary Heat — 02:33.34 (did not advance)

Women's 100 m Backstroke

• Derya Erke

• Preliminary Heat — 01:07.26 (did not advance)

Women's 200 m Backstroke

• Derya Erke

• Preliminary Heat — 02:21.28 (did not advance)

Weightlifting

Main article: Weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Snatch			Clean & Jerk			Total	Rank
		1	2	3	1	2	3
Halil Mutlu	56 kg	130.0	135.0	138.0	160.0	167.5	170.0	305.5
Naim Süleymanoğlu	62 kg	145.0	145.0	145.0	–	–	–	DNF	–
Yasin Arslan	69 kg	130.0	135.0	137.5	160.0	165.0	170.0	300.0	14
Bünyamin Sudaş	94 kg	175.0	175.0	177.5	215.0	220.0	220.0	392.5	7
Abdulaziz Alpak	105 kg	165.0	175.0	180.0	210.0	210.0	210.0	DNF	–

References

• Wallechinsky, David (2004). The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics (Athens 2004 Edition). Toronto, Canada. ISBN 1-894963-32-6.
• International Olympic Committee (2001). The Results. Retrieved 12 November 2005.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 1: Preparing for the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 2: Celebrating the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). The Results. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
• International Olympic Committee Web Site