2024 Paris Summer Olympics are beginning.
The 2024 Olympics will be held between July 26 and August 11, with 10,500 athletes in total attending. Turkish athletes will represent Türkiye in shooting, athletics, road cycling, boxing, artistic gymnastics, wrestling, weightlifting, archery, taekwondo, volleyball, sailing, and swimming at the Olympics.
The Olympic Torch was lit in a special ceremony on April 16, Tuesday in Olympia, Greece, where the Olympic Games originated from. The ceremony was attended by prominent figures, including the President of the IOC Thomas Bach and Tony Estanguet, President of the Paris 2024 Organization Committee.
The Opening Ceremony of the 33rd Summer Olympic Games will be held on July 26, Friday at 7.30 pm CEST (22.00 GMT+3)
Turkish athletes have secured 102 quotas across 18 sports so far.
Among the 13 athletes who won medals at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, boxers Busenaz Sürmeneli and Buse Naz Çakıroğlu, archer Mete Gazoz, wrestlers Taha Akgül, Rıza Kayaalp, and Yasemin Adar Yiğit, artistic gymnast Ferhat Arıcan, and taekwondo athletes Hatice Kübra İlgün and Hakan Reçber will represent Turkey in Paris 2024. However, the four athletes who won medals in karate at Tokyo 2020 will not compete in Paris 2024 as karate will not be included in the upcoming Games.
Here is the list of Turkish athletes who will compete at the 2024 Olympics:
Shooting: Rümeysa Pelin Kaya, Sena Can, Şevval İlayda Tarhan, Şimal Yılmaz, Yusuf Dikeç, İsmail Keleş, Oğuzhan Tüzün
Athletics: Eda Tuğsuz (Javelin Throw), Özkan Baltacı (Hammer Throw), Necati Er (Triple Jump), Emel Dereli (Shot Put), Buse Savaşkan, Alperen Acet (High Jump), Berke Akçam (400m Hurdles), Mazlum Demir, Ayşe Tekdal (Marathon Walk Mixed Relay), Yasmani Copello Escovar (400m Hurdles), Tuğa Danışmaz (Triple Jump), Meryem Bekmez, Salih Korkmaz (20km Walk), Ersu Şaşma (Pole Vault), Kayhan Özer (100m), and Kaan Kigen Özbilen (Marathon).
Artistic Gymnastics: Ferhat Arıcan, Adem Asil, Ahmet Önder, İbrahim Çolak, Emre Dodanlı.
Badminton: Neslihan Yiğit Arın
Boxing: Buse Naz Çakıroğlu, Busenaz Sürmeli, Esta Yıldız Kahraman, Gizem Özer, Hatice Akbaş, Samet Gümüş, Tuğrulhan Erdemir, Kaan Aykutsun.
Fencing: Nisanur Erbil, Enver Yıldırım Kılıç.
Wrestling: Hamza Bakır, Ali Cengiz, Enes Başar, Burhan Akbudak, Taha Akgül, İbrahim Çiftçi, Buse Torun Çavuşoğlu, Nesrin Baş, Zeynep Yetgil, Evin Demrihan Yavuz, Yasemin Ada Yiğit.
Weightlifting: Muhammed Furkan Özbek.
Judo: Tuğçe Beder, Fidan Ögel, Kayra Özdemir, Salih Yıldız, Vedat Albayrak, Mihael Zgank, İbrahim Tataroğlu, Muhammed Demirel.
Archery: Elif Berra Gökkır, Mete Gazoz, Ulaş Berkim Tümer, Muhammed Abdullah Yıldırmış.
Rowing: Elis Özbay.
Table Tennis: Sibel Altınkaya.
Modern Pentathlon: İlke Özyüksel Mihrioğlu, Buğra Ünal.
Taekwondo: Merve Dinçel Kavurat, Hatice Kübra İlgün, Nafia Kuş Aydın, Hakan Reçber, Emre Kutalmış Ateşli.
Women's national volleyball team (12 athletes):
Sailing: Ecem Güzel, Yiğit Yalçın Çitak, Merve Vatan, Derin Atakan, Beste Kaynakçı, Alican Kaynar, Deniz Çınar, Lara Nalbantoğlu.
Swimming: Kuzey Tunçelli (800m and 1500m Freestyle), Emir Batur Albayrak (1500m Freestyle), Berkay Ömer Öğretir (100m Breaststroke), Ecem Dönem, Ela Naz Özdemir, Gizem Güvenç, Zehra Duru Bilgin (4x200m Freestyle Relay).
