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Turkey at the 1928 Summer Olympics

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Competitors
  
31 in 6 sports

Turkey at the 1928 Summer Olympics

NOC
  
Turkish National Olympic Committee

Website
  
olimpiyat.org.tr (English) (Turkish)

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Turkey competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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31 competitors participated at six sports branches 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.

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

    • Cycling

    Track races

    1 km against time

  • Galip Cav - 1.22.3 14th place

    • 1 km scratch

  • Cavit Cav - Requalifying races 4th series, eliminated

    • 4 km pursuit race

  • Galip Cav, Yunus Nüzhet Unat, Cavit Cav, Tacettin Öztürkmen - Preliminary contest (1st round) 3rd series, eliminated

    • Fencing

    Men's sabre
  • Nami Yayak - Preliminary contests 4th pool, 6th place
  • Muhuttin Okyavuz - Preliminary contests 5th pool, 5th place
  • Enver Balkan - Preliminary contests 8th pool, 7th place
    • Men's team sabre
  • Fuat Balkan, Enver Balkan, Muhuttin Okyavuz, Nami Yayak - Semifinals 2nd pool, 4th place

    • 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.

    Weightlifting

    Featherweight

  • Cemal Ercman - 262.5 kg 8th place

    • 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)

  • Tayyar Yalaz - 4th place

    • Middleweight (67.5 – 75 kg)

  • Nuri Boytorun - 4th round, eliminated

    • Light heavyweight (75 - 82.5 kg)

  • Şefik A. - 2nd round, eliminated

    • Heavyweight (+ 82.5 kg)

  • Mehmet Coban - 3rd round, eliminated

    • References

    Turkey at the 1928 Summer Olympics Wikipedia
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