Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
		Judo Judo at the 1992 Summer Olympics The Judo competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics was contested in fourteen weight classes, seven each for men and women. The seven men's weight classes continued to be those first used in 1980. This was the first Olympic competition to award medals to women judoka; women competed in 1988 as a...	Men's Half Lightweight (66 kg)
		Weightlifting Weightlifting at the 1992 Summer Olympics The Weightlifting Competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona consisted of ten weight classes, for men only.-Medal summary:-Medal table:-References:*...	Men's Flyweight (56 kg)
		Wrestling Wrestling at the 1992 Summer Olympics At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, 20 wrestling events were contested, for men only. There were 10 weight classes in each of the freestyle wrestling and Greco-Roman wrestling disciplines.-Freestyle:-Greco-Roman:-Medal table:...	Men's Greco-Roman Middleweight (85 kg)
		Taekwondo Taekwondo at the 2000 Summer Olympics Taekwondo was contested as an official sport at the Olympic Games for the first time at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. It had previously been a demonstration sport in 1988 and 1992. Medals were awarded in four weight classes each for men and women...	Women's (57 kg)
		Wrestling Wrestling at the 2000 Summer Olympics Wrestling at the 2000 Summer Olympics took place in the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre and was split into two disciplines, Freestyle and Greco-Roman which are further divided into different weight categories. The freestyle competitions were held from September 28 to October 1, and the...	Men's Freestyle Welterweight (76 kg)

Archery

Archery at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Archery at the 2000 Summer Olympics was held at Sydney International Archery Park in Sydney, Australia with ranking rounds on 16 September and regular competition held from 17 September to 20 September...

In its fifth Olympic archery competition, Turkey again came within one victory of a medal. The women's team again made it to the semifinal before losing there. In the bronze medal match, they were defeated by Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 to eliminate them from medal contention.

Men's individual
	Hasan Orbay Hasan Orbay Hasan Orbay is a Turkish archer.Orbay competed at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery. In 2004 he was defeated in the first round of elimination, placed 34th overall.-References:...			Serdar Satir			Ozdemir Akbal
1/32 eliminations	Defeated	Juan Carlos Manjarrez Godinez  Mexico	165-153	Lost to	Sebastien Flute  France	160-156	Lost to	Scott Hunter-Russell  Australia	154-146
1/16 eliminations	Lost to	Yong-Ho Jang  Korea	169-160	-	-	-	-	-	-

Women's individual
	Elif Altinkaynak			Zekiye Satir			Natalia Nasaridze Natalia Nasaridze Natalia Nasaridze is a three-time European champion archer, currently competing internationally for Turkey....
1/32 eliminations	Defeated	Jennifer Chan  Philippines	160-143	Lost to	Nataliya Burdeyna Nataliya Burdeyna Nataliya Burdeyna is a Ukrainian archer.She was born in Odessa.Burdeyna was part of the Ukrainian team at the 2000 Summer Olympics, where they won the silver medal. In the individual competition she finished 17th after losing the round of 32....   Ukraine	166-157	Lost to	Kirstin Lewis  South Africa	154-153
1/16 eliminations	Lost to	Alison Williamson Alison Williamson Alison Jane Williamson is an athlete from Great Britain. She competes in archery.Williamson, who is a member of the Long Mynd Archers, has represented Great Britain at five Olympic Games, from 1992-2008....   Great Britain	157-154	-	-	-	-	-	-

Women's Team Competition:

• Altankaynak, Satir, Nasaridze — bronze medal match, 4th place (2-2)

Men's Team Competition:

• Orbay, Satir, and Akbal — quarterfinal, 5th place (1-1)

Men's competition

Men's Long Jump

• Mesut Yavas
• Qualifying — 7.35 m (did not advance)

Men's Pole Vault

• Ruhan Isim
  Ruhan Isim
  Ruhan Işim is a retired Turkish pole vaulter.He competed at the 1990 European Championships and the 2000 Summer Olympics without reaching the final.His personal best jump was 5.70 metres, achieved in June 2000 in Jonesboro....
  
  
• Qualifying — NM (did not advance)

Women's competition

Women's 1,500m

• Sureyya Ayhan
  Sureyya Ayhan
  Süreyya Ayhan Kop is a Turkish former middle distance track runner who specialised in the 1500 metres. In November 2009, she was banned for lifetime by the Court of Arbitration for Sport due to failing a doping test....
  
  
• Round 1 — 04:08.37
• Semifinal — 04:09.42 (did not advance)

Women's 5,000m

• Ebru Kavaklioglu
  Ebru Kavaklioglu
  Ebru Kavaklıoğlu is a retired long-distance runner who specialized mainly in the 5000 metres....
  
  
• Round 1 — 15:49.15 (did not advance)

Women's Discus

• Oksana Mert
• Qualifying — 55.02 m (did not advance)

Women's Marathon

• Serap Aktas
  Serap Aktas
  Serap Aktaş is a Turkish female middle and long-distance runner, who later specialized in marathon. She holds various Turkish records....
  
  
• Final — 2:42:40 (37th place)

Boxing

Boxing at the 2000 Summer Olympics

The boxing competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney was held over a period of sixteen days at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour...

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)

• Ramazan Ballioglu
  • Round 1 — Lost to Marian Velicu
    Marian Velicu
    Marian Velicu is a boxer from Romania, who won the bronze medal in the Men's Light Flyweight division at the 2000 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Tampere, Finland...
    
     of Romania (→ did not advance)

Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)

• Halil Ibrahim Turan
  • Round 1 — Lost to Hicham Mesbahi
    Hicham Mesbahi
    Hicham Mesbahi is a boxer from Morocco who, as of 2008, has participated in three Olympics. He was born in Casablanca.In 2000, when Sydney hosted the Summer Olympics, he fell in the second round...
    
     of Morocco (→ did not advance)

Men's Bantamweight (– 54 kg)

• Agasi Agaguloglu
  • Round 1 — Defeated Kangde Mai of China
  • Round 2 — Defeated Cermeno Nehomar of Venezuela
  • Quarterfinal — Lost to Guillermo Rigondeaux of Cuba (→ did not advance)

Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg)

• Ramazan Palyani
  • Round 1 — Defeated Ali Haider
    Ali Haider
    Ali Haider is a former Pakistani singer and actor. He has had numerous hits in the early 90s such as Poorani Jeans. He also had a big hit later in the 1990s with Chand Sa Mukhra. Besides singing, he has acted in numerous TV serials on PTV. Among the successful dramas was Chand Sa Mukhra, which...
    
     of Pakistan
  • Round 2 — Defeated Vlademir Dos Santos Pereira of Brazil
  • Quarterfinal — Lost to Bekzat Sattarkhanov
    Bekzat Sattarkhanov
    Bekzat Sattarkhanov was a Kazakh boxer who competed in the men's featherweight division at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal....
    
     of Kazakhstan (→ did not advance)

Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg)

• Selim Palyani
  Selim Palyani
  Selim Palyani is a boxer from Turkey, who won the bronze medal in the Men's Lightweight division at the 2000 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Tampere, Finland....
  
  
  • Round 1 — Defeated Abdel Jebahi of France
  • Round 2 — Defeated David Jackson of United States
  • Quarterfinal — Lost to Alexandr Maletin
    Alexandr Maletin
    Alexandr Ivanovich Maletin is a boxer from Russia best known to win the lightweight world championships 1997.-Career:Maletin won the bronze medal in the lightweight division at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia...
    
     of Russia (→ did not advance)

Men's Light Welterweight (– 63.5 kg)

• Nurhan Suleymanoglu
  Nurhan Süleymanoglu
  Nurhan Süleymanoğlu is a boxer from Turkey.Participating at the 1996 Summer Olympics, he was stopped in the second round of the light welterweight division by Cuba's Héctor Vinent....
  
  
  • Round 1 — Defeated Michael Strange
    Michael Strange (boxer)
    Michael V. Strange is a retired boxer from Canada, competing in the light welterweight Michael ("Mike") V. Strange (born August 6, 1970 in Niagara Falls, Ontario) is a retired boxer from Canada, competing in the light welterweight Michael ("Mike") V. Strange (born August 6, 1970 in Niagara Falls,...
    
     of Canada
  • Round 2 — Lost to Sergey Bykovsky
    Sergey Bykovsky
    Sergey Bykovsky is a boxer from Belarus, who won the bronze medal in the Men's Light Welterweight division at the 1996 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Vejle, Denmark, alongside Bulgaria's Radoslav Suslekov....
    
     of Belarus (→ did not advance)

Men's Welterweight (– 67 kg)

• Bulent Ulusoy
  Bülent Ulusoy
  Bülent Ulusoy is a Turkish boxer best known to win the European title 2000 at welterweight.-Career:In 2000, Bulent Ulusoy won the Euro welterweight title. At the Olympics 2000 he lost the quarterfinal to Vitalie Gruşac...
  
  
  • Round 1 — Defeated Jin-Suk Bae of Korea
  • Round 2 — Defeated Dante Craig of United States
  • Quarterfinal — Lost to Vitalie Gruşac of Moldova (→ did not advance)

Men's Light Middleweight (– 71 kg)

• Firat Karagollu
  • Round 1 — Defeated Michael Roche of Ireland
  • Round 2 — Lost to Frédéric Esther
    Frédéric Esther
    Frédéric Esther is a boxer from France, competing in the middleweight division. He represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, where he was stopped in the quarterfinales of the light middleweight division by eventual silver medalist Marian Simion of...
    
     of France (→ did not advance)

Men's Middleweight (– 75 kg)

• Akin Kakauridze
  • Round 1 — Defeated Mariano Natalio Carrera
    Mariano Natalio Carrera
    Mariano Natalio Carrera is an Argentine boxer, who represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics....
    
     of Argentina
  • Round 2 — Defeated Jung-Bin Im of Korea
  • Quarterfinal — Lost to Vugar Alekperov of Azerbaijan (→ did not advance)

Sailing

Sailing at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Sailing/Yachting is a Olympic sport starting from the Games of the 1st Olympiad . With the exception of 1904 and possible 1916 sailing was always a part of the Olympic program....

Men's Mistral

• Ertugrul Icingir
• Race 1 — 26
• Race 2 — (37) OCS
• Race 3 — 24
• Race 4 — 11
• Race 5 — 15
• Race 6 — 28
• Race 7 — 29
• Race 8 — 25
• Race 9 — (37) OCS
• Race 10 — 22
• Race 11 — 37 DSQ
• Final — 217 (31st place)

Men's Single Handed Dinghy (Finn)

• Enver Adakan Ali
• Race 1 — 5
• Race 2 — 7
• Race 3 — (17)
• Race 4 — 7
• Race 5 — 9
• Race 6 — (23)
• Race 7 — 11
• Race 8 — 3
• Race 9 — 4
• Race 10 — 7
• Race 11 — 13
• Final — 66 (8th place)

Women's Mistral

• Ilknur Akdogan
• Race 1 — (30) DNF
• Race 2 — 27
• Race 3 — (28)
• Race 4 — 28
• Race 5 — 26
• Race 6 — 25
• Race 7 — 28
• Race 8 — 28
• Race 9 — 27
• Race 10 — 28
• Race 11 — 24
• Final — 241 (28th place)

Open Laser

• Ali Kemal Tufekci
• Race 2 — (40)
• Race 3 — 33
• Race 4 — (37)
• Race 5 — 29
• Race 6 — 28
• Race 7 — 36
• Race 8 — 30
• Race 9 — 14
• Race 10 — 24
• Race 11 — 27
• Final — 254 (34th place)

Swimming

Men's 200 m Freestyle

• Aytekin Mindan
• Preliminary Heat — 1:54.86 (did not advance)

Men's 400 m Freestyle

• Aytekin Mindan
• Preliminary Heat — 04:01.46 (did not advance)

Men's 100 m Breaststroke

• Hakan Kiper
• Preliminary Heat — 01:07.46 (did not advance)

Men's 100 m Backstroke

• Derya Büyükunçu
  Derya Büyükunçu
  Derya Büyükuncu is a five-time olympic backstroke and butterfly swimmer from Turkey.In 2009, during the LEN Shourt Course European Championships, Buyukuncu was a finalist in 200 m backstroke. He finished in 5th place at the age of 33. -References:...
  
  
• Preliminary Heat — 56.21 (did not advance)

Men's 200 m Individual Medley

• Orel Oral
• Preliminary Heat — 02:09.51 (did not advance)

Women's 100 m Butterfly

• Ayse Diker
• Preliminary Heat — 01:04.65 (did not advance)

Women's 100 m Breaststroke

• Ilkay Dikmen
• Preliminary Heat — 01:11.51 (did not advance)

Women's 200 m Breaststroke

• Ilkay Dikmen
• Preliminary Heat — 02:33.34 (did not advance)

Women's 100 m Backstroke

• Derya Erke
• Preliminary Heat — 01:07.26 (did not advance)

Women's 200 m Backstroke

• Derya Erke
• Preliminary Heat — 02:21.28 (did not advance)

Weightlifting

Men

Athlete	Event	Snatch			Clean & Jerk			Total	Rank
		1	2	3	1	2	3
Halil Mutlu Halil Mutlu Halil Mutlu is a professional Turkish weightlifter with several World and Olympic championships. Mutlu is one of the four weightlifters achieving three consecutive gold medals at the Olympic Games...	56 kg Weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 56 kg The Men's Bantamweight Weightlifting Event is the lightest men's event at the weightlifting competition, limiting competitors to a maximum of 56 kilograms of body mass...	130.0	135.0	138.0	160.0	167.5	170.0	305.5
Naim Süleymanoğlu Naim Süleymanoglu Naim Süleymanoğlu , formerly known as Naim Suleimanov , is a Turkish World and Olympic Champion in weightlifting...	62 kg Weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 62 kg The Men's Featherweight Weightlifting Event is the second men's weight class event at the weightlifting competition, limiting competitors to a maximum of 62 kilograms of body mass...	145.0	145.0	145.0	–	–	–	DNF	–
Yasin Arslan	69 kg Weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 69 kg The Men's Lightweight Weightlifting Event is the third men's weight class event at the weightlifting competition, limiting competitors to a maximum of 69 kilograms of body mass...	130.0	135.0	137.5	160.0	165.0	170.0	300.0	14
Bünyamin Sudaş Bünyamin Sudaş Bünyamin Sudaş , aka Bünyami Sudaş, is a Turkish weightlifter competing in the 105 kg division.Bünyamin Sudaş is tall and weighs...	94 kg Weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 94 kg The Men's Middle-Heavyweight Weightlifting Event is the sixth men's weight class event at the weightlifting competition, limiting competitors to a maximum of 94 kilograms of body mass...	175.0	175.0	177.5	215.0	220.0	220.0	392.5	7
Abdulaziz Alpak	105 kg Weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 105 kg The Men's Heavyweight Weightlifting Event is the seventh men's weight class event at the weightlifting competition, limiting competitors to a maximum of 105 kilograms of body mass...	165.0	175.0	180.0	210.0	210.0	210.0	DNF	–