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, Australia.

Medalists

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

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to eliminate them from medal contention. 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 – DNS

Women's competition

Women's 1,500m *

Süreyya Ayhan Süreyya Ayhan Kop (born September 6, 1978) is a Turkish former female middle distance track runner who specialised in the 1500 metres. In November 2009, she was banned for life by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) due to her second anti ...

:* Round 1 – 04:08.37 :* Semifinal – 04:09.42 (did not advance) Women's 5,000m *

Ebru Kavaklıoğlu Ebru Kavaklıoğlu (born Yelena Kopytova on 14 March 1970 in the Russian SFSR) is a retired long-distance runner who specialized mainly in the 5000 metres. She initially represented Russia, but became a Turkish citizen by marriage in 1999, chang ...

:* 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 Serap Aktaş (born September 25, 1971 in Ceyhan, Turkey) is a Turkish female middle and long-distance runner, who later specialized in marathon. She holds various Turkish records. In 1994, she finished the Istanbul Marathon first in the women's ...

:* 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 Hicham Mesbahi (born December 4, 1980) is a boxer from Morocco who participated in three Olympics. He was born in Casablanca. In 2000, when Sydney hosted the Summer Olympics, he fell in the second round. At the 2004 Summer Olympics where he fough ...

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 Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz (; born 30 September 1980) is a Cuban professional boxer. He is a former world champion in two weight classes, having held the unified WBA (Super), WBO and ''Ring'' magazine super bantamweight titles between 2013 and ...

of Cuba (→ did not advance) Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg) *

Ramazan Palyani Ramaz Paliani ( ka, რამაზ ფალიანი, born 21 August 1973 in Mestia, Georgia) is a Georgian boxer who has won World and European Championships in the men's featherweight division. He has represented Turkey, Georgia, and Russ ...

**Round 1 – Defeated Ali Haider of Pakistan **Round 2 – Defeated Vlademir Dos Santos Pereira of Brazil **Quarterfinal – Lost to

Bekzat Sattarkhanov Bekzat Seilkhanovich Sattarkhanov ( kz, Бекзат Сеилханович Саттарханов; 4 April 1980 — 31 December 2000) was a Kazakh boxer who competed in the men's featherweight division (57 kg) at the 2000 Summer Olympics a ...

of Kazakhstan (→ did not advance) Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg) *

Selim Palyani Selim Palyani (born April 5, 1976) is a boxer from Turkey, who won the bronze medal in the Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg) division at the 2000 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Tampere, Finland. Palyani represented his native coun ...

**Round 1 – Defeated Abdel Jebahi of France **Round 2 – Defeated David Jackson of United States **Quarterfinal – Lost to

Alexandr Maletin Alexandr Ivanovich Maletin (russian: Александр Иванович Малетин; born February 6, 1975) is a boxer from Russia best known to win the lightweight world championships 1997. Career Maletin won the bronze medal ...

of Russia (→ did not advance) Men's Light Welterweight (– 63.5 kg) *

Nurhan Süleymanoğlu Nurhan Süleymanoğlu (born February 28, 1971) is a Kazakhstan-born Turkish former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2007. As an amateur, he participated at the 1996 Summer Olympics, where he was stopped in the second round of the li ...

**Round 1 – Defeated

Michael Strange Blanche Marie Louise Oelrichs (October 1, 1890 – November 5, 1950) was an American poet, playwright and theatre actress. Oelrichs first used the masculine pen name Michael Strange to publish her poetry in order to distance her society reput ...

of Canada **Round 2 – Lost to

Sergey Bykovsky Sergey Bykovsky (russian: Серге́й Быковский; born May 30, 1972) is a boxer from Belarus, who won the bronze medal in the Men's Light Welterweight (– 63.5 kg) division at the 1996 European Amateur Boxing Championships i ...

of Belarus (→ did not advance) Men's Welterweight (– 67 kg) *

Bülent Ulusoy Bülent Ulusoy (born January 7, 1978, in Trabzon) is a Turkish boxer best known to win the European title 2000 at welterweight. Career In 2000, Bulent Ulusoy won the Euro welterweight title. At the Olympics 2000 he lost the quarterfinal to Vit ...

**Round 1 – Defeated Jin-Suk Bae of Korea **Round 2 – Defeated

Dante Craig Dante Mario Craig (born August 20, 1978) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2016. As an amateur, he competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, in the welterweight. Craig was born in Cincinnati, Ohio Cin ...

of United States **Quarterfinal – Lost to

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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 Im Jeong-bin (born 18 May 1973) is a South Korean boxer. He competed in the men's middleweight event at the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug ...

of Korea **Quarterfinal – Lost to

Vugar Alekperov Vugar Mursal Alakbarov ( az, Vüqar Mursal Ələkbərov; born 5 January 1981) is an Azerbaijani boxer. Alakbarov competed in the middleweight class (−75 kg) at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal. At the 2004 Summer Olympic ...

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 Ali Enver Adakan (born 19 July 1977) is a retired Turkish dinghy sailor, who specialized in Finn (dinghy), Finn class. He represented Turkey in two editions of the Olympic Games (2000 and 2004), and has been training for the Istanbul Sailing Club ...

:* 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

Men's 200 m Freestyle *

Aytekin Mindan Aytekin Mindan (born March 31, 1981) is a Turkish former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events. He held a Turkish record of 1:50.40 in the 200 m freestyle, until it was matched by Kemal Arda Gurdal in 2012. He studied at Istanbul Bilgi U ...

:* Preliminary Heat – 1:54.86 (did not advance) Men's 400 m Freestyle *

:* Preliminary Heat – 04:01.46 (did not advance) Men's 100 m Breaststroke *

Hakan Kiper Hakan Kiper (born August 4, 1973) is a Turkish former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events. During his sporting career, he held numerous Turkish championship titles and meet records, and played for Galatasaray Spor Kulübü. Kiper als ...

:* Preliminary Heat – 01:07.46 (did not advance) Men's 100 m Backstroke *

Derya Büyükuncu Derya Büyükuncu (; born 2 July 1976) is a six-time Olympic backstroke and butterfly swimmer from Turkey. The tall athlete at is a member of Galatasaray Swimming. His coach is Zehra Büyükuncu. He participated in six consecutive Summer Oly ...

:* 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 İlkay Dikmen (born February 2, 1981, in Izmir, Turkey) is a Turkish swimmer competing in the breaststroke events. The tall sportswoman at is a member of Fenerbahçe Swimming in Istanbul. She was born to Atilla and İlknur Dikmen in Izmir. Sh ...

:* Preliminary Heat – 01:11.51 (did not advance) Women's 200 m Breaststroke *

:* Preliminary Heat – 02:33.34 (did not advance) Women's 100 m Backstroke *

Derya Erke Şadan Derya Erke (born November 11, 1983) is a Turkish former swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events. She is a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2004) and a member of Istanbul Swimming Club ( tr, İstanbul Yüzme İhtisas Kulübü). She previou ...

:* Preliminary Heat – 01:07.26 (did not advance) Women's 200 m Backstroke *

:* Preliminary Heat – 02:21.28 (did not advance)

Weightlifting

Men

References

*Wallechinsky, David (2004). ''The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics (Athens 2004 Edition)''. Toronto, Canada. . *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
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