# Turkey at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Turkey competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

## Medalists

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
| Gold | Hüseyin Özkan | Judo | Men's Half Lightweight (66 kg) |
| Gold | Halil Mutlu | Weightlifting | Men's Flyweight (56 kg) |
| Gold | Hamza Yerlikaya | Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman Middleweight (85 kg) |
| Bronze | Hamide Bıkçın Tosun | Taekwondo | Women's (57 kg) |
| Bronze | Adem Bereket | Wrestling | Men's Freestyle Welterweight (76 kg) |

## Results by event
### Archery

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 to eliminate them from medal contention.
Men's individual :
| | Hasan Orbay | Hasan Orbay | Hasan Orbay | Serdar Şatır | Serdar Şatır | Serdar Şatır | Özdemir Akbal | Özdemir Akbal | Özdemir 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 Altınkaynak | Elif Altınkaynak | Elif Altınkaynak | Zekiye Keskin Şatır | Zekiye Keskin Şatır | Zekiye Keskin Şatır | Natalia Nasaridze | Natalia Nasaridze | Natalia Nasaridze |
| 1/32 eliminations | Defeated | Jennifer Chan Philippines | 160-143 | Lost to | Nataliya Burdeyna Ukraine | 166-157 | Lost to | Kirstin Lewis South Africa | 154-153 |
| 1/16 eliminations | Lost to | Alison Williamson Great Britain | 157-154 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Women's Team Competition:
* Altankaynak, Keskin Şatır, Nasaridze – bronze medal match, 4th place (2-2)
Men's Team Competition:
* Orbay, Satir, and Akbal – quarterfinal, 5th place (1-1)

### Athletics
#### Men's competition

Men's Long Jump
* Mesut Yavaş
   * Qualifying – 7.35 m (did not advance)
Men's Pole Vault
* Ruhan Işım
   * Qualifying – DNS

#### Women's competition

Women's 1,500m
* Süreyya Ayhan
   * Round 1 – 04:08.37
   * Semifinal – 04:09.42 (did not advance)
Women's 5,000m
* Ebru Kavaklıoğlu
   * Round 1 – 15:49.15 (did not advance)
Women's Discus
* Oksana Mert
   * Qualifying – 55.02 m (did not advance)
Women's Marathon
* Serap Aktaş
   * Final – 2:42:40 (37th place)

## Boxing

| Athlete | Event | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank |
| Ramazan Ballıoğlu | Light flyweight | Velicu (ROU) L 8–20 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Halil İbrahim Turan | Flyweight | Mesbahi (MAR) L 11–17 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Agasi Agaguloglu | Bantamweight | Kangde (CHN) W 17–4 | Cermeño (COL) W 11–3 | Rigondeaux (CUB) L 5–14 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Ramazan Palyani | Featherweight | Ali (PAK) W 5–4 | Pereira (BRA) W (RSC) | Sattarkhanov (KAZ) L 11–12 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Selim Palyani | Lightweight | Jebahi (FRA) W 14–5 | Jackson (USA) W (WO) | Maletin (RUS) L (RSC) | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Nurhan Süleymanoğlu | Light welterweight | Strange (CAN) W 9–3 | Bykovsky (BLR) L 8–8 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Bülent Ulusoy | Welterweight | Jin-seok (KOR) W 8–6 | Craig (USA) W 9–4 | Grușac (MDA) L 10–19 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Fırat Karagöllü | Light middleweight | Roche (IRL) W 17–4 | Esther (FRA) L 16–18 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Akın Kuloğlu | Middleweight | Carrera (ARG) W (RSC) | Jeong-bin (KOR) W (RET) | Alakbarov (AZE) L 8–18 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
Legend: RSC – Referee stopped contest

### Sailing

Men's Mistral
* Ertuğrul İçingir
   * 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)
* Ali Enver Adakan
   * 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
* İlknur Akdoğan
   * 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 Tüfekçi
   * 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 Büyükuncu
   * 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
* İlkay Dikmen
   * Preliminary Heat – 01:11.51 (did not advance)
Women's 200 m Breaststroke
* İlkay 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 | Snatch | Snatch | Clean & Jerk | Clean & Jerk | Clean & Jerk | Total | Rank |
| Athlete | Event | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | Total | Rank |
| Halil Mutlu | 56 kg | 130.0 | 135.0 | 138.0 | 160.0 | 167.5 | 170.0 | 305.5 | |
| Naim Süleymanoğlu | 62 kg | 145.0 | 145.0 | 145.0 | – | – | – | DNF | – |
| Yasin Arslan | 69 kg | 130.0 | 135.0 | 137.5 | 160.0 | 165.0 | 170.0 | 300.0 | 14 |
| Mehmet Yılmaz | 77 kg | 155.0 | 155.0 | 160.0 | 180.0 | 187.5 | 192.5 | 347.5 | 10 |
| Ayhan Çiçek | 77 kg | 140.0 | 145.0 | 150.0 | 175.0 | 180.0 | 185.0 | 325.0 | 13 |
| Bünyamin Sudaş | 94 kg | 175.0 | 175.0 | 177.5 | 215.0 | 220.0 | 220.0 | 392.5 | 7 |
| Abdulaziz Alpak | 105 kg | 165.0 | 175.0 | 180.0 | 210.0 | 210.0 | 210.0 | DNF | – |

## Wrestling
### Freestyle

| Athlete | Event | Elimination pool | Elimination pool | Elimination pool | Elimination pool | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank |
| Harun Doğan | 58 kg | Cuciuc (MDA) L 2–6 | Zakhartdinov (UZB) L 0–3 | Ramazanov (RUS) L WO | 4 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | 15 |
| Yüksel Şanlı | 69 kg | Oziti (NGR) W 6–0 | McIlravy (USA) L 3–6 | — | 2 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | 9 |
| Adem Bereket | 76 kg | Mchedlidze (GEO) W 3–0 | Ritter (HUN) W 3–2 | — | 1 Q | Khinchagov (UZB) W 5–2 | Slay (USA) L 1–3 | Eui-jae (KOR) L 0–3$^F$ | |
| Ali Özen | 85 kg | Khadartsev (UZB) L 0–3 | Hyung-mo (KOR) L 2–5 | — | 3 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | 18 |
| Ahmet Doğu | 97 kg | Heidari (IRI) L 1–6 | Scherrer (SUI) L 3–4 | — | 3 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | 16 |
| Aydın Polatçı | 130 kg | Gombos (HUN) W 3–0 | Taymazov (UZB) L 0–3 | — | 2 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | 11 |

### Greco-Roman

| Athlete | Event | Elimination pool | Elimination pool | Elimination pool | Elimination pool | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank |
| Ercan Yıldız | 54 kg | Rivas (CUB) L 0–10 | Pellew (NZL) W 16–0 | Eyvazov (AZE) L 0–3 | 3 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | 11 |
| Şeref Eroğlu | 63 kg | Samurgashev (RUS) L 2–5 | Zawadzki (POL) W WO | — | 2 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | 10 |
| Nazmi Avluca | 76 kg | Bichinashvili (AZE) W 3–0 | Jin-soo (KOR) L 1–3 | — | 2 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | 13 |
| Hamza Yerlikaya | 85 kg | Asell (FIN) W 3–0 | Zander (GER) W 5–1 | — | 1 Q | Méndez (CUB) W 3–0 | Vakhtangadze (GEO) W 3–0 | Bárdosi (HUN) W 3–3 | |
| Hakkı Başar | 97 kg | Chkhaidze (GEO) L 2–4 | Wroński (POL) L 1–7 | — | 3 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | 16 |
| Fatih Bakır | 130 kg | Evseichik (ISR) L 0–3 | Sitnik (POL) W 1–0 | Vála (CZE) W 3–0 | 2 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | 8 |