Turkey at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

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Turkey at the
2020 Summer Paralympics
Flag of Turkey.svg
IPC codeTUR
NPCTurkish Paralympic Committee
in Tokyo, Japan
August 24, 2021 (2021-08-24) – September 5, 2021 (2021-09-05)
Competitors87 in 13 sports
Medals
Gold
2
Silver
4
Bronze
9
Total
15
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)
  • 1992
  • 1996
  • 2000
  • 2004
  • 2008
  • 2012
  • 2016
  • 2020

Turkey competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan from 24 August to 5 September 2021. This was the country's seventh appearance in the past eight Games despite their absence in the 1996 Summer Paralympics.

Medalists[]

Competitors[]

Source:[1]

# Sport Men Women Total Events
1 Archery 6 5 11 14
2 Athletics 2 7 9 13
3 Badminton 0 2 2 2
4 Basketball 12 0 12 1
5 Fencing 1 0 1 2
6 Goalball 6 6 12 2
7 Judo 1 4 5 5
8 Powerlifting 1 4 5 5
9 Shooting 5 4 9 19
10 Swimming 2 3 5 18
11 Table Tennis 4 5 9 12
12 Taekwondo 3 3 6 6
13 Tennis 0 1 1 1
Total 43 44 87 100

Archery[]

Turkey have secured eleven quotas in archery.[2]

Athlete Event Ranking round Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
Score Seed Opposition
score
Opposition
score
Opposition
score
Opposition
score
Opposition
score
Rank
Men
Nihat Türkmenoğlu Individual W1 661 1 N/A   (JPN)
W 133–129
 Hekimoğlu (TUR)
W 139–132
 Drahonínský (CZE)
L 141–142
2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Bahattin Hekimoğlu 643 5 N/A  Leonov (RPC)
W 135–107
  (HUN)
W 138–135
 Türkmenoğlu (TUR)
L 132–139
  (IRI)
W 139–134
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Bülent Korkmaz Individual compound open 689 10   (FRA)
W 141–137
  (RPC)
L 145–146
Did not advance
Murat Turan 675 24   (UKR)
W 139–139
 Shelby (USA)
W 142–138
  (CHN)
L 145–148
Did not advance
Sadık Savaş Individual recurve open 611 9   (POL)
W 6–4
 Aksoy (TUR)
W 6–4
 Mather (USA)
L 2–6
Did not advance
Vedat Aksoy 583 25   (RPC)
W 6–2
 Savaş (TUR)
L 4–6
Did not advance
Women
Fatma Danabaş Individual W1 515 12 N/A   (USA)
L 115–126
Did not advance
Öznur Cüre Individual compound open 689 3 N/A  Zúñiga (CHI)
L 140–143
Did not advance
Sevgi Yorulmaz 679 10   (THA)
W 133-133
  (SGP)
W 140-136
 Artakhinova (RPC)
L 129-139
Did not advance
Yağmur Şengül Individual recurve open 557 15  Torun (TUR)
L 4–6
Did not advance
Zehra Özbey Torun 554 18  Şengül (TUR)
W 6–4
 Mijno (ITA)
L 0–6
Did not advance
Mixed
Nihat Türkmenoğlu
Fatma Danabaş
Mixed team W1 N/A  South Korea
L 114–133
Did not advance
Bülent Korkmaz
Öznur Cüre
Mixed team compound N/A  India
W 153–151
 
W 156–155
 China
L 152–153
2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Yağmur Şengül
Sadık Savaş
Mixed team recurve N/A  Great Britain
L 1–5
Did not advance

Athletics[]

9 athlete in 13 events are representing Turkey at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.[3]

Number Athlete Event Rank
Men's Track
1 Oguz Akbulut Men's 400m T12 5
2 Men's 400m T13 6
Women's Track
3 Hamide Dogangun Women's 100m T53 5
4 Women's 400m T53 6
5 Women's 800m T53 5
6 Zübeyde Süpürgeci Women's 100m T54 7
7 Women's 400m T54 13
8 Women's 800m T54 8
9 Havva Elmalı Women's 1500m T11 9
Women's Field
10 Women's shot put F20 9
11 Büşra Nur Tırıklı Women's discus throw F11 6
12 Women's long jump T20 7
13 Women's long jump T20 4

Badminton[]

Women
Athlete Event Group Stage Quarterfinal Semifinal Final / BM
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Rank Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Opposition
Score
Rank
Singles WH2   (KOR)
W (12–21, 21–9, 21–16)
 Yamazaki (JPN)
W (21–15, 13–21, 21–16)
1 Q  Wetwithan (THA)
W (21–10, 21–15)
 Liu (CHN)
L (7–21, 4–21)
 Yamazaki (JPN)
L (16–21, 8–21)
4
Singles SU5  Kohli (IND)
L (12–21, 18–21)
  (JPN)
L (12–21, 8–21)
3 Did not advance

Goalball[]

Men[]

The following is the Turkey roster in the men's goalball tournament of the 2020 Summer Paralympics.[4]

No. Player Class Date of birth (age)
1 Hüseyin Alkan B1 (1988-04-01)1 April 1988 (aged 33)
3 B2 (1995-07-13)13 July 1995 (aged 26)
4 B1 (1990-10-26)26 October 1990 (aged 30)
6 Tekin Okan Düzgün B1 (1988-05-24)24 May 1988 (aged 33)
7 Tuncay Karakaya B1 (1989-10-01)1 October 1989 (aged 31)
8 Abdullah Aydoğdu B3 (1991-09-27)27 September 1991 (aged 29)
Group stage
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Belgium 4 2 0 2 18 13 +5 6 Quarter-finals
2  Ukraine 4 2 0 2 18 15 +3 6
3  Turkey 4 2 0 2 15 15 0 6
4  China 4 2 0 2 21 22 −1 6
5  Germany 4 2 0 2 16 23 −7 6
Source: TOCOG
25 August 2021
17:30
Germany  6–4  Turkey Makuhari Messe, Tokyo
Referees: Romualdas Vaitiekus (Lithuania), Reza Dehghan (Iran)
4
1
1
Report Karakaya 3
1
27 August 2021
09:00
Turkey  4–6  Belgium Makuhari Messe, Tokyo
Referees: Yoshinori Nii (Japan), Robert Avery (Great Britain)
Karakaya 3
1
Report 3
2
1
28 August 2021
10:30
Turkey  6–3  China Makuhari Messe, Tokyo
Referees: Svitlana Moroz (Ukraine), Yoshinori Nii (Japan)
3
Karakaya 3
Report 2
Cai Changgui 1
30 August 2021
09:00
Ukraine  0–1  Turkey Makuhari Messe, Tokyo
Referees: Warrick Jackes (Australia), Yoshinori Nii (Japan)
Report Karakaya 1
Quarterfinal
31 August 2021
19:30
Brazil  9–4  Turkey Makuhari Messe, Tokyo
Referees: Yoshinori Nii (Japan), Romualdas Vaitiekus (Lithuania)
Moreno 6
3
Report 4

Women[]

The following is the Turkey roster in the women's goalball tournament of the 2020 Summer Paralympics.[5]

No. Player Class Date of birth (age)
1 Fatma Gül Güler B2 (2004-02-12)12 February 2004 (aged 17)
2 Reyhan Yılmaz B2 (2001-11-18)18 November 2001 (aged 19)
3 Sevda Altunoluk B2 (1994-04-01)1 April 1994 (aged 27)
4 Şeydanur Kaplan B2 (2000-03-23)23 March 2000 (aged 21)
6 Kader Çelik B2 (2001-01-01)1 January 2001 (aged 20)
7 Sevtap Altunoluk B2 (1995-01-10)10 January 1995 (aged 26)
Group stage






Quarterfinal


Semifinal


Final


Judo[]

Athlete Event First round Quarter-final Semi-final First repechage
round
Repechage
semi-final
Final
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Rank
Recep Çiftçi Men's 60 kg  Borges (URU)
W 010–001
 Shirinli (AZE)
L 000–010
Did not advance N/A   (JPN)
W 010–000
  (VEN)
W 010–001
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Ecem Taşın Women's 48 kg Bye  Potapova (RPC)
L 000–010
Did not advance  Brussig (GER)
W 011–001
  (JPN)
L 001–010
Did not advance 7
Zeynep Çelik Women's 57 kg Bye  Ovchinnikova (RPC)
W 010–000
 Valiyeva (AZE)
L 000–010
Bye  Junko Hirose (JPN)
W 010–001
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Women's 63 kg   (RPC)
L 000–010
Did not advance
Women's 70 kg   (CRO)
W 010-000
  (RPC)
W 001-000
 Maldonado (BRA)
L 000-010
Bye  Ruvalcaba (MEX)
L 000-010
5

Powerlifting[]

Athlete Event Result Rank
Men
Men's 49 kg 150 5
Women
Nazmiye Muslu Muratlı Women's 45 kg DNF -
Besra Duman Women's 55 kg 124 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Women's 61 kg NM -
Women's 73 kg NM -

Shooting[]

9 Turkish shooters qualified in 19 events.

Number Athlete Event Rank
Men
1 19
2 Muharrem Korhan Yamaç 20
3 18
Women
4 Suzan Çevik 17
5 Çağla Baş 15
6 Ayşegül Pehlivanlar 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
7 Aysel Özgan 8
Mixed
8 Hakan Çevik 19
9 26
10 Çağla Baş 26
11 9
12 7
13 Muharrem Korhan Yamaç 6
14 12
15 18
16 Aysel Özgan 22
17 Ayşegül Pehlivanlar 17
18 39
19 33

Swimming[]

5 swimmer will represent Turkey in 18 events in swimming at the 2020 Summer Paralympics via the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships slot allocation method & MQS.[6][7][8]

Number Athlete Events Heats Final
Number Time Rank Time Rank
Men
1 50 metre freestyle S5 36.85 15 Did Not Advance
2 50 metre butterfly S5 38.99 10 Did Not Advance
3 100 metre freestyle S5 1:20.20 10 Did Not Advance
4 200 metre freestyle S5 2:46.37 5 Q 2:46.62 5
5 Beytullah Eroğlu 50 metre backstroke S5 41.99 11 Did Not Advance
6 50 metre butterfly S5 39.93 12 Did Not Advance
Women
7 Sümeyye Boyacı 50 metre backstroke S5 43.28 2 Q 43.94 4
8 50 metre butterfly S5 49.12 9 Did Not Advance
9 100 metre freestyle S5 1:39.41 14 Did Not Advance
10 200 metre freestyle S5 3:15.75 7 Q 3:17.23 7
11 Sevilay Öztürk 50 metre backstroke S5 44.16 3 Q 43.48 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
12 50 metre butterfly S5 45.88 4 Q 45.81 5
13 100 metre freestyle S5 1:42.73 15 Did Not Advance
14 200 metre freestyle S5 3:17.30 8 Q 3:29.05 8
15 50 metre backstroke S2 8 8
16 100 metre freestyle S3 3:17.54 15 Did Not Advance
17 100 metre backstroke S2 3:16.84 8 Q 3:13.39 8
Mixed
18 Sümeyye Boyacı
Sevilay Öztürk

Beytullah Eroğlu
Mixed relay 20pts 2:44.80 8 Q 2:42.43 7

Table tennis[]

Turkey entered nine athletes into the table tennis competition at the games. Abdullah Ozturk qualified from 2019 ITTF European Para Championships which was held in Helsingborg, Sweden and five others from World Ranking allocation.[9][10]

Athlete Event Group Stage Round 1 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Rank Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Rank
Men
Abdullah Öztürk Individual C4   (INA)
W 3–1
  (POL)
W 3–0
1 Q N/A   (ESP)
W 3–0
 Thomas (FRA)
W 3–1
  (KOR)
W 3–1
1st place, gold medalist(s)
Nesim Turan   (CHI)
W 3–0
 Zhang (CHN)
W 3–2
1 Q N/A   (SVK)
W 3–0
  (KOR)
L 1–3
Did not advance 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Ali Öztürk Individual C5  Baus (GER)
L 2–3
  (EGY)
W 3–0
2 Q N/A  Palikuća (SRB)
W 3–-1
 Ningning (CHN)
L 0–3
Did not advance 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Hamza Çalışkan  Ningning (CHN)
L 0–3
 Savant-Aira (FRA)
L 2–3
3 N/A Did Not Advance
Women
Hatice Duman Individual C3  Xue (CHN)
L 0–3
  (CRO)
L 1–3
N/A 3 Did Not Advance
Nergiz Altıntaş   (SWE)
L 1–3
  (THA)
L 1–3
N/A 3 Did Not Advance
Kubra Korkut Individual C7   (NOR)
W 3–0
 Safonova (RPC)
W 3–1
N/A 1 Q Bye  van Zon (NED)
L 1–3
Did not advance 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Neslihan Kavas Individual C9  Xiong (CHN)
L 1–3
 Rauen (BRA)
L 0–3
 Szvitacs (HUN)
L 0–3
3 Did Not Advance
Individual C10  Partyka (POL)
L 1–3
 Takeuchi (JPN)
W 3–0
N/A 2 Q  Tien (TPE)
L 1–3
Did Not Advance 5
Men's Team
Abdullah Ozturk
Ali Ozturk
Nesim Turan
N/A  Slovakia (SVK)
L 1–2
Did Not Advance 5
Women's Team
Nergiz Altıntaş
Hatice Duman
N/A  Croatia (CRO)
L 0–2
Did Not Advance 5

Neslihan Kavas
Kubra Korkut
N/A  Brazil (BRA)
L 1–2
Did Not Advance 5

Taekwondo[]

Para taekwondo makes its debut appearance in the Paralympic programme, six Turkish taekwondoin qualified to the 2020 Summer Paralympics via World Ranking.[11]

Athlete Event First round Quarter-final Semi-final First repechage
round
Repechage
semi-final
Final / BM
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Rank
Men
Mahmut Bozteke Men's –61 kg Bye  Sidorov (RPC)
L 21–26
Did not advance  Hakizimana (RPT)
W WWD
 Bolor-Erdene (MGL)
W 23–22
  (ITA)
W 14–3
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Fatih Çelik Men's –75 kg   (SEN)
W 38–19
 Pourrahnama (IRI)
L 21–37
Did not advance  Joo (KOR)
L 40–31
Did not advance
Mehmet Vasıf Yakut Men's +75 kg Bye  Ataev (RPC)
L 8–30
Did not advance   (MEX)
L 2–23
Did not advance
Women
Meryem Betül Çavdar Women's –49 kg Bye  Phuangkitcha (THA)
W 34–12
 Poddubskaia (THA)
W 22–11
N/A  Espinoza (PER)
L 21–34
2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Gamze Gürdal Women's –58 kg Bye  Munro (GBR)
L 22–34
Did not advance Bye  Abohegazy (EGY)
W 17–15
 Fernandes (BRA)
L 9–26
5
Şeyma Nur Emeksiz Bacaksız Women's +58 kg Bye   (UKR)
L 10–22
Did not advance  Watson (AUS)
L 2–36
Did not advance

Basketball[]

The men's team qualified after entered top four at the 2019 IWBF Men's European Championship held in Wałbrzych, Poland.

Team roster
No. Player Class Date of birth (age)
3 2.5 (1976-01-09) 9 January 1976 (age 45)
5 Özgür Gürbulak 4.0 (1981-04-30) 30 April 1981 (age 40)
6 4.0 (1999-03-25) 25 March 1999 (age 22)
7 4.0 (1995-08-31) 31 August 1995 (age 26)
9 3.0 (1992-07-19) 19 July 1992 (age 29)
10 1.5 (1985-11-28) 28 November 1985 (age 36)
11 1.0 (1985-06-15) 15 June 1985 (age 36)
15 2.5 (1986-01-26) 26 January 1986 (age 35)
35 Ferit Gümüş 3.0 (1981-01-10) 10 January 1981 (age 40)
36 4.5 (1988-11-01) 1 November 1988 (age 33)
47 1.0 (2000-02-02) 2 February 2000 (age 21)
52 2.0 (1998-02-16) 16 February 1998 (age 23)

Group A
Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1  Spain 5 5 0 375 272 +103 10
2  Japan 5 4 1 312 298 +14 9
3  Turkey 5 3 2 353 327 +26 8
4  Canada 5 2 3 307 333 −26 7
5  South Korea 5 1 4 305 332 −27 6
6   5 0 5 256 346 −90 5
Updated to match(es) played on unknown. Source:[citation needed]
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored.

TRT Spor
26 August 2021
17:00
South Korea  70–80  Turkey
Scoring by quarter: 15–21, 18–17, 15–19, 22–23
Pts: 26
Rebs: 11
Asts: 8
Pts: Gürbulak 25
Rebs: 8
Asts: Gürbulak 13
Musashino Forest Sport Plaza
Referees: Tomas Pajer (CZE), Mauricio Gamez (CRO),Ben Wood (GBR)

TRT Spor
27 August 2021
11:15
Turkey  77–73 (OT)  Canada
Scoring by quarter: 20–17, 10–17, 15–24, 22–13, Overtime: 10–6
Pts: Gürbulak 28
Rebs: Gürbulak 8
Asts: Gürbulak 13
Pts: 33
Rebs: Anderson 22
Asts: 11
Musashino Forest Sport Plaza
Referees: Matias Quintana (ARG), Shunsuke Nikaido (JPN), Adam Fronczak (POL)

TRT Spor
28 August 2021
9:00
Turkey  61–79  Spain
Scoring by quarter: 10–17, 16–21, 22–21, 13–20
Pts: Gürbulak 26
Rebs: Gümüş 5
Asts: 9
Pts: 20
Rebs: 13
Asts: García 8
Ariake Arena
Referees: Darrell Hargreaves (USA), Celine Villard (FRA), Alexandre Lapointe (CAN)

TRT Spor
29 August 2021
11:15
  38–80  Turkey
Scoring by quarter: 8–15, 13–22, 7–27, 10–16
Pts: 9
Rebs: 5
Asts: 4
Pts: Gürbulak 19
Rebs: Gürbulak, Gümüş 7
Asts: Gürbulak 11

TRT Spor
30 August 2021
14:45
Turkey  55–67  Japan
Ariake Arena

Fencing[]

Athlete Event Group stage Quarterfinals Semifinals Final/BM
Opposition Result Rank Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Rank
Hakan Akkaya   (ITA) L 4-5 6 Did not advance
  (CAN) W 5-0
 Maxim Shaburov (RPC) L 4-5
  (GER) L 3-5
 Jianquan Tian (CHN) L 3-5
  (IRQ) L 3-5
 Matteo Betti (ITA) L 2-5 4 Did not advance
 Nikita Nagaev (RPC) L 3-5
  (IRQ) W 5-2
 Richard Osvath (HUN) L 1-5

Tennis[]

Turkey qualified one players entries for wheelchair tennis. Busra Un qualified by world ranking.

Athlete Event Round of 64 Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final / BM
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Rank
Busra Un Women's singles N/A  Shuker (GBR)
L 0–2
Did not advance

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/en/results/all-sports/npc-entries-turkey.htm
  2. ^ "'s-Hertogenbosch 2019: Hekimoglu and Liu lead". International Paralympic Committee. 5 June 2019.
  3. ^ https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/en/results/athletics/sport-and-npc-entries-by-event-turkey.htm
  4. ^ "Goalball – Team Turkey". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  5. ^ "Goalball – Team Turkey". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  6. ^ "Medallists by Event" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 15 September 2019.
  7. ^ "World Championships Slot Allocation Method" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 14 October 2019.
  8. ^ https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/en/results/swimming/sport-and-npc-entries-by-event-turkey.htm
  9. ^ "2019 Para Table Tennis Calendar". International Table Tennis Federation. 16 March 2019.
  10. ^ https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/en/results/table-tennis/sport-and-npc-entries-by-event-turkey.htm
  11. ^ "Athletes qualified for Tokyo 2020 World Rankings" (PDF). Taekwondo Oezer. 1 January 2020.
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