Turkey's Olympic Squad

ISTANBUL - Hürriyet Daily News

Turkey has finalized its Olympic squad, with a national record of 114 athletes, 66 of whom are women, going to the London Olympic Games.

The squad was announced on July 12, with its largest squad ever. Also for the first time in its history, female athletes outnumber males on Turkey’s Olympic squad.

The women’s volleyball and basketball teams play a large part in that feat, with each of those squads having 12 athletes. That will mark the first time in 52 years that Turkey will be represented in team sports.

Track and field makes up the largest contingent, with 33 athletes, while wrestling and weightlifting, two of Turkey’s perennial strongholds, follow with 13 and nine respectively. Turkey will be represented in volleyball, badminton, gymnastics, the women’s 4x400-meter relay and women’s basketball for
the first time in its history.

Badminton (1)

Neslihan Yiğit

Basketball (12)
Nevriye Yılmaz
Esmeral Tunçluer
Birsel Vardarlı
Nilay Kartaltepe
Tuğba Palazoğlu
Bahar Çağlar
Işıl Alben
Şaziye İvegin
Yasemin Horasan
Tuğçe Canıtez
Begüm Dalgalar
Quanitra Hollingsworth
 
Boxing (6)

Ferhat Pehlivan
(Men’s light flyweight)
Selçuk Eker
(Men’s flyweight)
Fatih Keleş
(Men’s lightweight)
Yakup Şener
(Men’s light welterweight)
Adem Kılıççı
(Men’s middleweight)
Bahram Muzaffer
(Men’s light heavyweight)
 
Cycling (3)
Ahmet Akdilek
Miraç Kal
Kemal Küçükbay
 
Gymnastics (1)
Göksu Üçtaş
(Women’s artistic gymnastics)

Judo (2)
Gülşah Kocatürk
(Women’s 78kg)
Sezer Huysuz (Men’s 73kg)

Sailing (5)
Nazlı Çağla Dönertaş
(Women’s Laser-Radial)
Mustafa Çakır (Men’s Laser)
Deniz Çınar (Men’s 470)
Ateş Çınar (Men’s 470)
Alican Kaynar (Men’s Finn)
 
Shooting (5)
Yusuf Dikeç
(Men’s air pistol and fire pistol)
Oğuzhan Tüzün
(Men’s skeet and trap)
İsmail Keleş
(Men’s air pistol and fire pistol)
Nihan Kantarcı
(Women’s trap, skeet)
Çiğdem Özyaman
(Women’s trap, skeet)
 
Swimming (6)
Burcu Dolunay
(Women’s 50m, 100m freestyle)
Hazal Sarıkaya
(Women’s 100m backstroke)
Dilara Buse Günaydın
(Women’s 100m, 200m breaststroke)
Derya Büyükuncu
(Men’s 200m backstroke)
Ediz Yıldırımer
(Men’s 1500m freestyle)
Kemal Arda Gürdal
(Men’s 100m freestyle)
 
Table tennis (2)
Melek Hu (Men’s table tennis)
Bora Vang
(Women’s table tennis)
Nur Tatar (Women’s 67kg)
Servet Tazegül (Men’s 68kg)
Bahri Tanrıkulu (Men’s 80kg)







































 Volleyball (12)
Esra Gümüş
Gülden Kayalar Kuzubaşoğlu
Gizem Güreşen
Ergül Avcı
Polen Uslupehlivan
Bahar Toksoy
Özge Kırdar Çemberci
Gözde Sonsırma
Naz Aydemir
Neriman Özsoy
Eda Erdem Dündar
Neslihan Darnel
 Weightlifting (9)
Erol Bilgin (Men’s 62kg)
Hurşit Atak (Men’s 62kg)
Mete Binay (Men’s 69kg)
Fatih Baydar (Men’s 85kg)
İbrahim Arat (Men’s 94kg)
Nurdan Karagöz
(Women’s 48kg)
Aylin Daşdelen
(Women’s 53kg)
Bediha Tunadağı
(Women’s 58kg)
Sibel Şimşek (Women’s 63kg)
 Wrestling (13)
Ayhan Karakuş
(Men’s Greco-Roman 56kg)
Rahman Bilici
(Men’s Greco-Roman 60kg)
Atakan Yüksel
(Men’s Greco-Roman 66kg)
Selçuk Çebi
(Men’s Greco-Roman 74kg)
Nazmi Avluca
(Men’s Greco-Roman 84kg)
Cenk İldem
(Men’s Greco-Roman 96kg)
Rıza Kayaalp
(Men’s Greco-Roman 120kg)
Ahmet Peker
(Men’s Freestyle 55kg)
Ramazan Şahin
(Men’s Freestyle 66kg)
İbrahim Bölükbaşı
(Men’s Freestyle 84kg)
Serhat Balcı
(Men’s Freestyle 96kg)
Taha Akgül
(Men’s Freestyle 120kg)
Elif Jale Yeşilırmak
(Women’s 63kg)