Turkey at the 1928 Summer Olympics

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Turkey at the Olympic Games

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IOC code:   TUR
1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam
Officials Selim Sırrı Tarcan
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Turkey competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Turkey participated at six sports branchs of athletics, cycling, fencing, football, weightlifting and wrestling.

In the Amsterdam Olympics, Turkey received fourth place for the first time ever. Tayyar Yalaz was the Turkish Olympian, whose name was listed in the official table of honor, which lists six best contestants in each event. He wrestled in the 67 kg division of Greco-Roman style to come in fourth.[1]

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[edit] Results by event

[edit] Athletics

Men's 100 m flat

  • Mehmet Ali T. - Preliminary contest (1st round) 5th series, eliminated
  • Semih Turkdogan - Preliminary contest (1st round) 6th series, eliminated
  • Sinasi Sahingiray - Preliminary contest (1st round) 10th series, eliminated
  • Enis H. - Preliminary contest (1st round) 16th series, eliminated

Men's 800 m flat

  • Ömer Besim Kosalay - Preliminary contest 6th series, eliminated

Men's 1500 m flat

  • Ömer Besim Kosalay - Preliminary contest 4th series, eliminated

Men's Running high jump

  • Haydar S. - Preliminary contest 3rd series, 1.70 m

Men's 400 m relay

  • Mehmet Ali T., Semih Turkdogan, Sinasi Sahingiray, Enis H., Ömer Besim Kosalay - Preliminary contest 3rd series, eliminated

[edit] Cycling

Track races

1 km against time

  • Galip A - 1.22.3 14th place

1 km scratch

  • Cavit A - Requalifying races 4th series, eliminated

4 km pursuit race

  • Galp A., Yunus I., Cavit A., Tacettin C. - Preliminary contest (1st round) 3rd series, eliminated

[edit] Fencing

Men's Sabres individual

  • Nami D. - Preliminary contests 4th pool, 6th place
  • Muhiddin Okyavuz - Preliminary contests 5th pool, 5th place
  • Enver E. - Preliminary contests 8th pool, 7th place

Men's Sabres team

  • Fuat E., Enver E., Muhiddin Okyavuz, Nami D. - Semifinals 2nd pool, 4th place

[edit] Football

The soccer team was beaten 7-1 by Egypt on May 28, 1928. Alaeddin scored Turkey's only goal. For Egypt, Moktar El-Tetch scored 3, Gamil El-Zobair scored one, Mohamed Houda scored 2, and Ali Reyadh scored one.

Team: Muhlis S., Ulvi Z., Burhan I., Şükrü H., Osman S., Alaeddin E., Nafız O., Latif Y., Cevad R., Mehmet S., Kemal F., Kadri D., Nihat A., Sabih M., Bedri H., Bekir R., Zeki R., İsmet S., Feyzi R., Şevki M.

[edit] Weightlifting

Featherweight

[edit] Wrestling

Men's Greco-Roman style

Bantamweight (- 58 kg)

  • Burhan Conker - 2nd round, eliminated

Featherweight (58 - 62 kg)

  • Saim Arikan - 4th round, eliminated

Lightweight (62 - 67.5 kg)

Middleweight (67.5 - 75 kg)

Light heavyweight (75 - 82.5kg)

  • Şefik A. - 2nd round, eliminated

Heavyweight (+ 82.5 kg)

[edit] External link

[edit] References

  1. ^ Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey



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