| Turkey at the 2016 European Athletics Championships | |
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| WA code | TUR |
| in Amsterdam | |
| Medals Ranked 4th |
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| European Athletics Championships appearances (overview) | |
Turkey competed at the 2016 European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam, Netherlands, between 6 and 10 July 2016. [1]
Turkey participated at the championship with 55 athletes winning a total of twelve medals (four gold, five silver and three bronze). One of the bronze medals was awarded to the team in half marathon.
| Event | Men | Women | Total | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | S | B | Total | G | S | B | Total | G | S | B | Total | ||||
| 100 m | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 0 | - | 1 | - | 1 | |||
| 200 m | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 0 | - | 1 | - | 1 | |||
| 5,000 m | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | |||
| 10,000 m | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 3 | |||
| Half marathon | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| 400 m hurdles | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | - | - | 1 | |||
| 3,000 m steeplechase | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Shot put | - | - | - | 0 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | |||
| Total | 2 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 12 | |||
| Event | Athletes | Heat Round 1 | Heat Round 2 | Semifinal | Final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||
| 100 m | Ramil Guliyev | 10.21 | 1 | — | 10.07 | 4 | 10.23 | 6 | |
| Jak Ali Harvey | 10.04 | 2 | — | 10.04 | 2 | 10.07 |  | ||
| 200 m | Ramil Guliyev | — | 20.69 | 8 | 20.51 | | |||
| 400 m | Batuhan Altıntaş | 47.23 | 15 | — | Did not advance | ||||
| Yavuz Can | — | 45.51 NR | 7 | Did not advance | |||||
| 1,500 m | Levent Ateş | 3:43.25 | 19 | — | Did not advance | ||||
| 10,000 m | Polat Kemboi Arıkan | — | 28:18.52 |  | |||||
| Ali Kaya | — | 28:21.42 | | ||||||
| Half marathon | Kaan Kigen Özbilen | — | 1:02:27 | | |||||
| 400 m hurdles | Yasmani Copello | — | 48.42 NR | 1 | 48.98 | | |||
| 3,000 m steeplechase | Tarık Langat Akdağ | 8:43.81 | 18 | — | Did not advance | ||||
| Hakan Duvar | 8:33.13 SB | 8 | — | 8:44.03 | 12 | ||||
| Aras Kaya | 8:33.11 | 7 | — | 8:29.91 PB | | ||||
| 4 × 400 m relay | Halit Kılıç Yasmani Copello Escobar Batuhan Altıntaş Yavuz Can | 3:04.65 | 9 | — | Did not advance | ||||
| Event | Athletes | Heat Round 1 | Heat Round 2 | Semifinal | Final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||
| Triple jump | Şeref Osmanoğlu | 16.81 | 3 | — | 16.55 | 6 | |||
| Aşkın Karaca | 16.19 | 21 | — | Did not advance | |||||
| Discus throw | Ercüment Olgundeniz | NM | — | Did not advance | |||||
| Hammer throw | Eşref Apak | NM | — | Did not advance | |||||
| Özkan Baltacı | 70.67 | 8 | — | 71.35 | 9 | ||||
| Event | Athletes | Heat Round 1 | Heat Round 2 | Semifinal | Final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||
| 5,000 m | Yasemin Can | — | 15:18.15 | | |||||
| 10,000 m | Yasemin Can | — | 31:12.86 EL, EU23 | | |||||
| Half marathon | Esma Aydemir | — | 1:11:49 | 5 | |||||
| Sultan Haydar | — | 1:12:34 | 11 | ||||||
| Sevilay Eytemis | — | 1:15:36 | 43 | ||||||
| Turkey | — | 3:39:59 |  | ||||||
| 400 m hurdles | Elif Yıldırım | 58.40 | 20 | — | Did not advance | ||||
| 3,000 m steeplechase | Meryem Akda | 9:45.69 | 9 | — | 9:55.42 | 13 | |||
| Özlem Kaya | 9:44.41 | 7 | — | 9:35.05 | | ||||
| Elif Karabulut | Did not finish | — | Did not advance | ||||||
| 4 × 400 m relay | Berfe Sancak Meryem Kasap Emel Şanlı Elif Yıldırım | 3:38.47 | 16 | — | Did not advance | ||||
| Event | Athletes | Heat Round 1 | Heat Round 2 | Semifinal | Final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||
| Long jump | Karin Melis Mey | 6.55 | 4 | — | 6.62 | 5 | |||
| Shot put | Emel Dereli | 17.88 | 2 | — | 18.22 | | |||
| Javelin throw | Eda Tuğsuz | 58.13 | 12 | — | 56.97 | 11 | |||
| Hammer throw | Kıvılcım Salman | 65.97 | 17 | — | Did not advance | ||||
| Tuğçe Şahutoğlu | 62.37 | 28 | — | Did not advance | |||||
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