Turkey at the 1956 Summer Olympics

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Turkey at the
1956 Summer Olympics
Flag of Turkey.svg
IOC code TUR
NOC Turkish National Olympic Committee
in Melbourne/Stockholm
Flag bearer Hamit Kaplan [1]
Medals
Ranked 12th
Gold
3
Silver
2
Bronze
2
Total
7
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
1906 Intercalated Games

Turkey competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia and Stockholm, Sweden (equestrian events).

Contents

Medalists

MedalNameSportEvent
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Mithat Bayrak Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman Welterweight
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Mustafa Dağıstanlı Wrestling Freestyle Bantamweight
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Hamit Kaplan Wrestling Freestyle Heavyweight
Silver medal icon.svg Silver Rıza Doğan Wrestling Greco-Roman Lightweight
Silver medal icon.svg Silver İbrahim Zengin Wrestling Freestyle Welterweight
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Dursun Ali Eğribaş Wrestling Greco-Roman Flyweight
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Hüseyin Akbaş Wrestling Freestyle Flyweight

Competitors

Equestrian

Bedri Böke, Nail Gönenli, Arslan Güneş, [a] Fethi Gürcan; Salih Koç, Kemal Özçelik [3]

Wrestling

Hüseyin Akbaş, Adil Atan, İsmet Atlı, Mithat Bayrak, Mustafa Dağıstanlı, Rıza Doğan, Dursun Ali Eğribaş, Adil Güngör, Hamit Kaplan, Müzahir Sille, Bayram Şit, Yaşar Yılmaz, İbrahim Zengin [4]

Notes

  1. ↑ otherwise Alparslan or Alpaslan Güneş [2]

References

  1. ↑ "Hamit Kaplan". olympedia.org. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
  2. ↑ "Alpaslan Güneş". olympedia.org. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
  3. ↑ Organizing Committee for the Games of the XVI Olympiad: Ryttarolympiaden, Stockholm 1956: En återblick i ord och bild - Official Report 1956 Equestrian, pp. 262–263 (digitised version at LA84.com)
  4. ↑ Official Report of the Organizing Committee for the Games of the XVI Olympiad, Melbourne, 1956, pp. 730–760 (digitised version at LA84.com)


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