Gold-winning streak of Naim Suleymanoglu, Halil Mutlu They succeeded in bringing home 29 gold, 18 silver, and 16 bronze medals for Turkey.Īlso, Turkish athletes won 11 medals in weightlifting, seven in taekwondo, five in boxing, three in athletics, and two in judo. Wrestlers won 63 of the 91 medals won by Turkish athletes. Turkey's most successful branch in the Olympics is wrestling. Nurcan Taylan placed 1st in weightlifting at the games held in Athens, making history as Turkey's first woman gold medalist. The first gold medal to go to a Turkish female athlete was in the 2004 summer Olympics. Hulya Senyurt took home the bronze for Turkey in judo. Wrestler Yasar Erkan achieved another success by winning the gold in the 61-kilo freestyle.Ī Turkish female athlete won an Olympic medal for the first time in 1992. Wrestling was also the branch that won Turkey its first gold medal in history during those games in 1936. National wrestler Ahmet Kirecci became the first athlete to take the podium on behalf of Turkey with the bronze.
Turkish athletes, unable to win any medals in the first four Olympics they took part in, experienced their first medal pride at the 1936 Berlin games. Turkey won their first medal in Olympic history in wrestling. Turkey has won 39 gold, 25 silver, and 27 bronze in these organizations. The Tokyo Olympic Games will be the 23rd organization with Turkey participating.
Turkey will pursue medals with 108 athletes participating in 18 different branches in the games. The 32nd Summer Olympic Games, which should have been held last year under normal conditions but were postponed to this year due to coronavirus pandemic, are set to start on July 23 and run until Aug. As the 2020 summer Olympics in Japan's capital approach, participants from Turkey will seek to add to the country's total of 91 medals, won by 73 athletes.
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