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Archery Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In m ...

In its fourth Olympic archery competition, Turkey's women nearly earned two medals. Elif Altınkaynak made it to the semifinals in the individual competition, and the women's team made it there in the team round. However, the semifinals were as far as any Turkish archer got, and Altankaynak and the team both lost there and in the bronze medal matches. Women's Individual Competition: * Elif Altınkaynak → Bronze Medal Match, 4th place (4-2) *

Natalia Nasaridze Natalia Nasaridze (born 2 October 1972) is a three-time European champion archer, who competes internationally for Turkey. She is from the Republic of Georgia. She is coached by Vladimir Lekveshivili and is a member of Antalya ...

→ Round of 32, 21st place (1-1) * Elif Ekşi → Round of 64, 47th place (0-1) Men's Individual Competition: * Okyay Küçükkayalar → Round of 64, 59th place (0-1) Women's Team Competition: * Altınkaynak, Nasaridze, and Ekşi → Bronze Medal Match, 4th place (2-1)

Athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competi ...

Men's Decathlon * Alper Kasapoğlu :* Final Result — 7575 points (→ 29th place) Women's Javelin Throw * Aysel Taş :* Qualification — 57.86m (→ 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 ...

— 2:36.14 (→ 23rd place)

Boxing Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined ...

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg) *

Yaşar Giritli Yaşar Giritli (born 1 August 1969) is a retired male boxer from Turkey. He competed for his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There, he was stopped in the first round of the men's light flyweight division by Thaila ...

*# First Round — Lost to

Somrot Kamsing Somrot Kamsing ( th, สมรถ คำสิงห์, born 1971-09-24) is a retired male boxer from Thailand, who competed for his Asian country at the 1996 Summer Olympics. An older brother of Somluck Kamsing, he was defeated in Atlanta, Ge ...

(Thailand) on points (4-19) Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg) * Soner Karagöz *# First Round — Lost to István Kovács (Hungary), 3-15 Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg) *

Serdar Yağlı Serdar Yağlı (born 1 January 1978) is a Turkish boxer. He competed in the men's featherweight event at the 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and common ...

*# First Round — Lost to

Josian Lebon Josian Lebon (born 6 August 1973) is a Mauritian boxer. He competed in the men's featherweight event at the 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonl ...

(Mauritius), 8-9 Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg) *

Vahdettin İşsever Vahdettin İşsever (born 7 August 1968) is a boxer from Turkey, who won the bronze medal in the Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg) division at the 1996 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Vejle, Denmark, alongside Italy's Christian G ...

*# First Round — Lost to

Hocine Soltani Hocine Soltani (December 1972 – March 2002) was an Algerian boxer, who won two Olympic medals. In 1992, the southpaw placed third in the featherweight division (54–57 kg), and at the 1996 Summer Olympics he won the gold medal in the ...

(Algeria), 2-14 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 ...

*# First Round — Defeated

Aboubacar Diallo Aboubacar Diallo (born 12 January 1976) is a Guinean boxer. He competed in the men's light welterweight event at the 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 an ...

(Guinea), 21-5 *# Second Round — Lost to

Héctor Vinent Héctor Vinent Cháron (born July 25, 1972, in Santiago de Cuba) was a Cuban amateur boxer, who won the Light Welterweight Gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics and 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games o ...

(Cuba), 1-23 Men's Welterweight (– 67 kg) *

Cahit Sürme Cahit is a Turkish given name for males. It is the Turkish form of the Arabic word Jahid (Arabic: جاهِد ''jāhid''), which means "effort, strive" or " endeavour" and stems from the Arabic verb ''jahada'' (Arabic: َجَهَد) "to do effort t ...

*# First Round — Lost to Oleg Saitov (Russia), 1-11 Men's Middleweight (– 75 kg) *

Malik Beyleroğlu Malik Beyleroğlu (born January 21, 1970) is a former amateur boxer from Turkey( Azerbaijani origin), born in the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union. At the 1996 Summer Olympics, he won the silver medal in the men's middleweight d ...

→ Silver Medal *# First Round — Bye *# Second Round — Defeated Zsolt Erdel (Hungary), 9-8 *# Quarterfinals — Defeated Tomasz Borowski (Poland), 16-12 *# Semifinals — Defeated Mohamed Bahari (Algeria), 11-11 (referee decision) *# Final — Lost to Ariel Hernández (Cuba), 3-11 Men's Light Heavyweight (– 81 kg) * Yusuf Öztürk *# First Round — Lost to Pedro Aurino (Italy), 7-15

Swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...

Men's 400m Freestyle * Can Ergenekan *# Heat — 4:02.39 (→ did not advance, 27th place) Men's 100m Backstroke *

Derya Büyükunçu Derya is a Turkish and Kurdish unisex given name. The word is derived from the Persian دریا ("Daryā"), meaning ''sea''. In Old Persian it was pronounced 𐎭𐎼𐎹drayah-. In Turkish it is pronounced DER-Yaa and is used for both female an ...

*# Heat — 56.71 (→ did not advance, 20th place) Men's 200m 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 Olym ...

*# Heat — 2:04.28 (→ did not advance, 21st place) Men's 100m Butterfly *

*# Heat — 54.89 (→ did not advance, 27th place) Men's 200m Butterfly * Can Ergenekan *# Heat — 2:01.65 (→ did not advance, 27th place)
Women's 100m Butterfly * Nida Zuhal *# Heat — 1:04.11 (→ did not advance, 35th place) Women's 200m Butterfly * Nida Zuhal *# Heat — 2:18.46 (→ did not advance, 26th place)

Weightlifting Weightlifting generally refers to activities in which people lift Weight training#Equipment, weights, often in the form of dumbbells or barbells. People lift various kinds of weights for a variety of different reasons. These may include various t ...

Men's Light-Heavyweight (– 83 kg) *

Dursun Sevinç Dursun Sevinç (born 16 March 1972 in Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish weightlifter competing in the –85 kg division. Achievements ;World Weightlifting Championships The World Weightlifting Championships is an event organised by Intern ...

:* Final — 165.0 + 197.5 = 362.5 (→ 7th place)

References

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