İbrahim Çolak (born 7 January 1995) is a Turkish

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who is primarily a rings specialist. He is the 2019 World champion on the rings and the first Turkish gymnast to medal at the

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. He also became Turkey's first European champion in artistic gymnastics when he won gold on the rings at the 2020 European Championships. He is also the 2018 European silver medalist on the rings and the 2020 European silver medalist with the Turkish team. He is the

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champion on the rings and in the team event. He won the bronze medal at the

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and the silver medal at the

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on the rings. He represented

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where he finished fifth in the rings final.

Career

Çolak began gymnastics when he was five years old.

Junior

At the

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, Çolak won the bronze medal on the rings. He also competed at the 2012 Junior European Championships where he won the silver medal on the

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and finished fourth in the rings final.

Senior

At the

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, Çolak won the silver medal on the rings, Turkey's first medal on rings at the

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. He then competed at the 2013 World Championships in

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. In the qualification round, he finished fifteenth on the rings and thirty-sixth on the parallel bars. Çolak won the bronze medal on rings behind

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and

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at the 2014 Osijek World Challenge Cup. He then won the gold medal on the parallel bars at the 2014 Hungarian Grand Prix. At the 2014 World Championships, he finished tenth on the rings in the qualification round, making him the second reserve for the final. Çolak won the bronze medal on the rings behind

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and

Eleftherios Petrounias Eleftherios "Lefteris" Petrounias (, ; born 30 November 1990) is a Greek artistic gymnast. He is the 2016 Olympic champion, 2020 and 2024 Olympic bronze medalist, three-time World champion (2015, 2017, 2018) and a ten-time (2011, 2015–18, 202 ...

at the 2015 Cottbus World Challenge Cup. He then won the silver medal on rings at the Varna World Challenge Cup behind Danny Pinheiro Rodrigues. He won the bronze medal in the rings event at the

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, Azerbaijan, behind

and

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. He then represented Turkey at the 2015 Summer Universiade alongside Ahmet Önder and

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, and they finished eleventh in the team competition. He qualified for the rings final where he finished fourth, only 0.033 behind the bronze medalist

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. Çolak won the gold medal on rings at the 2016 Baku World Challenge Cup. He won another gold medal on rings at the Ljubljana World Challenge Cup, and he also won the bronze medal on the parallel bars. Then at the Osijek World Challenge Cup, he won the silver medal on the rings behind Russia's

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. He finished seventh in the rings final at the 2016 European Championships. He then won the gold medal on the rings at the 2016 Mersin World Challenge Cup. Çolak won the bronze medal on the rings at the 2017 Melbourne World Cup. Then at the 2017 European Championships, he finished fifth in the rings final. He represented Turkey at the 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games and won the team gold medal alongside

and Ahmet Önder. Individually, he won the gold medal in the rings final. He then represented Turkey at the 2017 Summer Universiade where the Turkish team finished tenth. In the rings final, he won the silver medal behind Armenia's

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. He won the gold medal on the rings at the Szombathely World Challenge Cup. At the 2017 World Championships in

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, he finished fifth in the rings final with a score of 15.066. Çolak won the silver medal on the rings at the 2018 Baku World Cup behind

. He also won the silver medal on rings at the Doha World Cup, this time behind

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. He also won silver medals on rings at the Osijek and the Koper World Challenge Cups behind

and Kazuyuki Takeda respectively. He captured the gold medal on the rings at the

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, Spain. He then won the gold medal on the rings at the Mersin World Challenge Cup. He won the silver medal in the rings at the

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, Scotland, and was Turkey's first silver medalist at the

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. Then at the 2018 World Championships in

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, he finished ninth on the rings in the qualification round, making him the first reserve for the final. Çolak competed at the 2019 European Championships and finished tenth on the rings during the qualification round, making him the first reserve for the final. He then represented Turkey at the 2019 European Games and finished fourth in the rings final. He won the gold medal on the rings at the Mersin World Challenge Cup with a score of 15.000. At the

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held in

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, Germany, he won the gold medal in still rings with a score of 14.933. This was the first gold medal and the first medal for Turkey at the

. This result also meant he qualified an individual spot for the 2020 Olympic Games. Çolak competed at the 2020 European Championships in

alongside

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, Ahmet Önder, and

Ümit Şamiloğlu Ümit Şamiloğlu (born 29 September 1980) is a retired Turkish artistic gymnast. He competed in the horizontal bar event and has won numerous gold medals in international competition. He is said to be the "oldest gymnast" at competitions in whi ...

. The team won the silver medal behind Ukraine which was Turkey's first ever team medal at the European Championships. Çolak then won the gold medal in the rings final with a score of 15.000 and became Turkey's first European champion in artistic gymnastics. Çolak finished fifth in the rings final at the 2021 European Championships. At the

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, he qualified for the rings final where he finished fifth with a score of 14.866. He then competed at the 2021 World Championships and finished sixth in the rings final. Çolak began the 2022 season by winning gold on the rings at the Cottbus World Cup. Then at the Cairo World Cup, he won the silver medal on rings behind Armenia's

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. Then at the Baku World Cup, he won the silver medal on rings behind Italian Salvatore Maresca. He then represented Turkey at the 2022 Mediterranean Games and helped the Turkish team win the gold medal. He then won the gold medal in the rings final. He won the bronze medal on rings at the Mersin World Challenge Cup. Çolak competed at the

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in the team challenge, and the Turkish team won the bronze medal behind the United States and Japan.

Eponymous skill

Çolak had a new rings skill named after him in the Code of Points at the 2017 Melbourne World Cup.

References

External links

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Ibrahim Colak
at the

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Colak, Ibrahim 1995 births Living people Turkish male artistic gymnasts Place of birth missing (living people) Gymnasts at the 2015 European Games Gymnasts at the 2019 European Games European Games bronze medalists for Turkey European Games medalists in gymnastics Competitors at the 2013 Mediterranean Games Summer World University Games medalists in gymnastics Gymnasts at the 2018 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Turkey Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Turkey Mediterranean Games medalists in gymnastics FISU World University Games silver medalists for Turkey Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2019 Summer Universiade World champion gymnasts European champions in gymnastics Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts for Turkey Gymnasts at the 2022 Mediterranean Games 21st-century Turkish sportsmen Islamic Solidarity Games gold medalists for Turkey Islamic Solidarity Games silver medalists for Turkey Gymnasts at the 2024 Summer Olympics