Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

competed at the

1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...

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Medalists

Competitors

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Results by event

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 third Olympic archery competition, Turkey's women were much more successful than the men. The ladies were able to earn a top eight finish in the team round. Women's Individual Competition: *

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 16, 15th place (1-1) * Zehra Oktem — Round of 32, 30th place (0-1) * Elif Eksi — Ranking round, 39th place (0-0) Men's Individual Competition: * Kerem Ersu — Ranking round, 46th place (0-0) * Vedat Erbay — Ranking round, 50th place (0-0) * Ozcan Ediz — Ranking round, 59th place (0-0) Women's Team Competition: * Nasaridze, Oktem, and Eksi — Quarterfinal, 6th place (1-1) Men's Team Competition: * Ersu, Erbay, and Ediz — Ranking round, 18th place

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), competiti ...

Zeki Öztürk Zeki Öztürk (born 22 December 1965 in Istanbul) is a retired Turkish athlete who competed in middle- and long distance running. He represented his country at the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics as well as three consecutive World Championships. ...

* Alper Kasapoğlu

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 ...

* Mehmet Gürgen

Judo is an unarmed gendai budō, modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyclopedia Nipponi ...

Men's Competition

* Haldun Efemgül (– 69 kg) * Alpaslan Ayan (– 71 kg)

Women's Competition

* Hülya Şenyurt (– 48 kg) * Derya Çalışkan (– 52 kg)

Sailing Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the ''water'' (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ''ice'' (iceboat) or on ''land'' (land yacht) over a chosen cour ...

Men's Sailboard (Lechner A-390) * Kutlu Torunlar :* Final Ranking — 310.0 points (→ 32nd place)

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 100m Freestyle * Mehmet Uğur Taner *# Heat — 51.34 (→ did not advance, 27th place) Men's 200m Freestyle * Mehmet Uğur Taner *# Heat — 1:50.95 (→ did not advance, 20th place) Men's 400m Freestyle * Mehmet Uğur Taner *# Heat — 3:57.64 (→ did not advance, 23rd place) * Can Ergenekan *# Heat — 3:58.43 (→ did not advance, 25th place) Men's 100m 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 ...

*# Heat — 57.38 (→ did not advance, 22nd place) Men's 200m Backstroke *

*# Heat — 2:06.01 (→ did not advance, 33rd place) Men's 100m Butterfly * Mehmet Uğur Taner *# Heat — 55.31 (→ did not advance, 24th place) * Can Ergenekan *# Heat — 56.30 (→ did not advance, 38th place) Men's 200m Butterfly * Can Ergenekan *# Heat — 2:00.82 *# B-Final – 2:01.21 (→ 12th place) * Mehmet Uğur Taner *# Heat — 2:01.61 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)

Taekwondo ''Taekwondo'', ''Tae Kwon Do'' or ''Taekwon-Do'' (; ko, 태권도/跆拳道 ) is a Korean form of martial arts involving punching and kicking techniques, with emphasis on head-height kicks, spinning jump kicks, and fast kicking techniques. T ...

* Ekrem Boyali * Ali Şahin * Metin Şahin *

Arzu Tan Arzu Tan Sayan (born 1973 in Arzu Tan) is a World champion Turkish female former Taekwondo practitioner, who competed in the flyweight (-47 kg) class, and currently acting as a coach. Arzu Tan was born 1973 in Istanbul, Turkey. She was ins ...

Ayşegül Ergin Ayşegül Ergin Boyalı (born Ayşegül Ergin in 1971) is a former Olympian Turkish female Taekwondo practitioner. At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, she competed for Turkey, and became the runner-up after losing to Tung Ya-Ling f ...

* Abbe Kivrik

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 ...

Halil Mutlu Halil Mutlu (born Halil Aliev () on 14 July 1973 in Postnik, Bulgaria) is a former professional Turkish weightlifter with several World and Olympic championship titles. Mutlu is one of the five weightlifters who has achieved three consecutive ...

(– 52 kg) * Hafız Süleymanoğlu (– 56 kg) *

Naim Süleymanoğlu Naim Süleymanoğlu ( bg, Наим Сюлейманоглу; 23 January 1967 – 18 November 2017) was a Bulgarian-born Turkish Olympic weightlifter. He was a seven-time World Weightlifting champion and a three-time Olympic gold medalist ...

(– 60 kg) * Muharrem Süleymanoğlu (– 75 kg) * Sunay Bulut (– 82,5 kg) * Erdinç Aslan (– 110 kg)

Wrestling Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat ...

Freestyle

* Ahmet Orel (– 52 kg) * Remzi Musaoğlu (– 57 kg) * Ismail Faikoğlu (– 62 kg) * Fatih Özbaş (– 68 kg) *

Selahattin Yiğit Selahattin Yiğit (born 1 January 1968) is a Turkish wrestler. He competed in the men's freestyle 74 kg at the 1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), ...

(– 74 kg) *

Sebahattin Öztürk Sebahattin Öztürk (born 1 July 1962) is a Turkish politician, civil servant and bureaucrat who served as the Minister of the Interior of Turkey between March and August 2015. Previously the Undersecretary to the Interior Ministry since 2014, he ...

(– 82 kg) * Kenana Şimşek (– 90 kg) * Ali Kayali (– 100 kg) *

Mahmut Demir Mahmut Demir (21 January 1970 in Amasya, Turkey), is a former Turkish Olympic, World and European champion sports in the super heavyweight class. He won the gold medal at the 1996 Olympics in Men's Freestyle wrestling. Wrestling career He was bo ...

(– 130 kg)

Greco-Roman

Ömer Elmas Ömer Elmas (born November 30, 1968, or January 1, 1969) is a Turkish wrestler. He competed for Turkey at the 1992 Summer Olympics, at the age of 23, in Barcelona, in Greco-Roman Wrestling - Men's Light-Flyweight. He lost to Nik Zagranitchni N ...

(– 48 kg) * Remzi Öztürk (– 52 kg) *

Ergüder Bekişdamat Ergüder Bekişdamat (born 1 January 1969) is a Turkish wrestler competing in the -57 kg division of the Greco-Roman style. Bekişdamat took part at the World Wrestling Championships in 1991 in Bulgaria, 1997 in Poland and 1998 in Sweden plac ...

(– 57 kg) * Mehmet Akif Pirim (– 62 kg) * Erhan Balci (– 74 kg) * Hakkı Başar (– 90 kg)

References

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