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Turkey at the 2004 Summer Olympics is represented by the Turkish Olympic Committee and is abbreviated TUR. Turkey is participating with 21 female and 45 male athletes. In the opening ceremony, Ali Enver Adakan , a sailor, bore the Turkish flag.

Medals

	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Turkey	3	3	4	10

Results by event

Archery

• Damla Gunay, Zekiye Keskin Satir, and Natalia Nasaridze - women's team, 10th place
• Zekiye Keskin Satir - women's individual, 17th place
• Hasan Orbay - men's individual, 34th place
• Damla Gunay - women's individual, 38th place
• Natalia Nasaridze - women's individual, 49th place

Athletics

• Anzhela Atroshchenko Women's Heptathlon: Withdrew due to injury.
• Filiz Kadoğan Women's Shot Put.
• Yeliz Ay Women's 20 km walk: 1:36:02, 33rd.

Men's 800 metres:

• Selahattin Cobanoglu - Round 1, 1:47.8 (did not advance)

Women's 800 metres:

• Binnaz Uslu - Round 1: 2:03.46

Women's 1500 metres:

• Elvan Abeylegesse - Round 1: 4:06.42, Semifinal: 4:07.10, Final: 4:00.67 (8th place)

Women's 5000 metres:

• Elvan Abeylegesse - Round 1: 14:54.80, Final: 15:12.64 (12th place)
• Tezeta Desalgne-Surekli - Round 1: 15:26.64
• Ebru Kavaklioglu - Round 1: 15:52.39

Women's heptathlon:

• Anzhela Atroshchenko - DNF (injury, withdrew after 4 events)

Women's marathon:

• Lale Ozturk - DNF

Women's 20 km walk:

• Yeliz Ay - 1:36:02 (33rd place)

Men's triple jump:

• Berk Tuna - Round 1, no mark (did not advance)

Women's high jump:

• Candeger Kilincer Oguz - Round 1: 1.89 metres

Women's shot put:

• Filiz Kadogan - Round 1: 15.20 metres

Men's discus:

• Ercüment Olgundeniz - Round 1, 58.17 metres (did not advance)

Men's hammer:

• Eşref Apak - 79.51 metres, Bronze medal.

Boxing

Turkey sent eight boxers to the Olympics in Athens. Atagun Yalcinkaya won Turkey's only medal in boxing of 2004, a silver medal. This put Turkey in a four-way tie for 8th place in the boxing medal count.

Four Turkish boxers lost their first matches. Two more fell in the round of 16, while Ihsan Yildirim Tarhan made it to the quarterfinals and Yalcinkaya made it to the final before being defeated. The combined record of the eight boxers was 8-8.

Light Flyweight (48kg)

• Atagun Yalcinkaya - silver medal
  1. Round of 32 - Defeated Jolly Katongole of Uganda, 22-7
  2. Round of 16 - Defeated Jeyhun Abiyev of Azerbaijan, 23-20
  3. Quarterfinal - Defeated Alfonso Pinto of Italy, 33-24
  4. Semifinal - Defeated Sergey Kazakov of Russia, 26-20
  5. Final - Lost to Yan Bhartelemy Varela of Cuba, 21-16

Featherweight (57kg)

• Sedat Tasci
  1. Round of 32 - Lost to Seok Hwan Jo of Korea, 37-28

Lightweight (60kg)

• Selcuk Aydin
  1. Round of 32 - Lost to Dimitar Stilianov of Bulgaria, 20-11

Light Welterweight (64kg)

• Mustafa Karagollu
  1. Round of 32 - Defeated Vijendra of India, 25-20
  2. Round of 16 - Lost to Ionut Gheorghe of Romania, 28-19

Welterweight (69kg)

• Bulent Ulusoy
  1. Round of 32 - Defeated Ellis Chibuye of Zambia, 45-32
  2. Round of 16 - Lost to Sherzod Husanov of Uzbekistan, 23-9

Middleweight (75kg)

• Serdar Ustune
  1. Round of 32 - Lost to Abdurahmonov Sherzod of Uzbekistan, 34-16

Light Heavyweight (81kg)

• Ihsan Yildirim Tarhan
  1. Round of 32 - Defeated Soulan Pownceby of New Zealand, outscored
  2. Round of 16 - Defeated Shumenov Beibut of Kazakhstan, 27-19
  3. Quarterfinal - Lost to Utkirbek Haydarov of Uzbekistan, 16-11

Heavyweight (91kg)

• Ertugrul Ergezen
  1. Round of 16 - Lost to Wilmer Jose Vasquez Torres of Venezuela, walkover

Judo

• Bektas Demirel Men's -66 kg.
• Nese Sensoy Women's -48 kg.
• Selim Tataroglu Men's +100 kg.

Sailing

• Ali Enver Adakan Men's Finn.
• Ertugrul Icingir Men's Mistral.
• Hasan Kaan Ozgonenc Men's 470.
• Kemal Muslubas Mixed Laser.
• Selim Kakis Men's 470.

Shooting

• Oguzhan Tuzun Men's Trap: 21st place with 115 points.

Swimming

• Aytekin Mindan Men's 400 m Freestyle, Men's 200 m Freestyle.
• Derya Buyukuncu Men's 100 m Backstroke, Men's 200 m Backstroke.
• Gulsah Gonenc Women's 100 m Butterfly, Women's 200 m Butterfly.
• Ilkay Dikmen Women's 100 m Breaststroke, Women's 200 m Breaststroke.
• Kaan Tayla Men's 100 m Freestyle, Men's 50 m Freestyle.
• Oguz Orel Oral Men's 200 m Individual Medley.
• Onur Uras Men's 100 m Butterfly
• Ozlem Yasemin Taskin Women's 400 m Freestyle.
• Sadan Derya Erke Women's 100 m Backstroke, Women's 200 m Backstroke.

Weightlifting

Women's

• Nurcan Taylan 48 kg: Snatch: 97,5 kg (WR), Clean and jerk: 112,5 kg, Total: 210 kg (WR).Gold medal.
• Aylin Dasdelen 58 kg: Snatch: 100 kg, Clean and jerk: 125 kg, Total: 225 kg. 4th place.
• Sibel Simsek 69 kg: Did not finish.

Men's

• Halil Mutlu 56 kg: Snatch: 135 kg, Clean and jerk: 160 kg, Total: 295 kg. Gold medal
• Sedat Artuc 56 kg: Bronze medal
• Taner Sağır 77 kg: Snatch: 172,5 kg (OR ), Clean and jerk: 202.5 kg, Total: 375 kg (OR ). Gold medal.
• Reyhan Arabacioglu 77 kg: 4th place.
• İzzet İnce 85 kg: Did not finish
• Hakan Yılmaz 94 kg: Snatch: 175 kg, Clean and jerk: 215 kg, Total: 390 kg. 6th place

Wrestling

Men's Greco-Roman style:

• Ercan Yıldız 55 kg
• Şeref Tüfenk 60 kg
• Şeref Eroğlu 66 kg
• Hamza Yerlikaya 84 kg
• Mehmet Özal 96 kg
• Yekta Yılmaz Gül 120 kg

Men's freestyle

• Harun Doğan 55 kg
• Tevfik Odabaşı 60 kg
• Ömer Çubukçı 66 kg
• Gökhan Yavaşer 84 kg
• Fatih Çakıroğlu 96 kg
• Aydın Polatçı 120 kg

Athletes who did not compete

• Sule Sahbaz Women's Weightlifting 75 kg: Tested positive for a banned steroid before competition.

Officials

• President: Togay Bayatli
• Secretary General: Nese Gundogan

External link

• Turkish Olympic Committee web site