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Türkiye Olympic Team finished the Paris Olympics with 8 medals

Türkiye finished the Summer Olympic Games with 3 silver and 5 bronze medals.

Türkiye won 2 silver and 1 bronze medal in women’s boxing. Hatice Akbaş and Buse Naz Çakıroğlu lost in their final matches, earning silver medals, while Esra Yıldız Kahraman secured a bronze medal by winning her third-place match.

In the shooting discipline, the mixed 10-meter air pistol team, consisting of Şevval İlayda Tarhan and Yusuf Dikeç, won a silver medal after losing to Serbia in the semifinals.

Mete Gazoz, the reigning Olympic champion, ended his Paris Olympics campaign with a bronze medal. The men’s archery team, composed of Mete Gazoz, Ulaş Berkim Tümer, and Abdullah Yıldırmış, also claimed a bronze medal.

In wrestling, historically Türkiye’s most successful Olympic sport, the country won two bronze medals this year. Buse Naz Çavuşoğlu in women’s 68kg and Taha Akgül in men’s 125kg both brought home bronze. In taekwondo, Nafia Kuş Aydın secured a bronze medal in the women’s 67kg category.

The “Sultans of the Net,” Türkiye’s women’s volleyball team, made it to the semifinals for the first time in their history but finished fourth after losing to Italy in the semifinals and Brazil in the bronze medal match. In swimming, 16-year-old Kuzey Tunçelli made history as the first Turkish athlete to reach an Olympic final, finishing fifth with a time of 14:41.22 and setting a “World Junior Record.”

  • Author: Gunel Musa

Public Relations Manager

26.08.2024
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