Turkey at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Turkey competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.

Turkey at the
1952 Summer Olympics
IOC codeTUR
NOCTurkish National Olympic Committee
Websiteolimpiyat.org.tr (in English and Turkish)
in Helsinki
Medals
Ranked 16th
Gold
2
Silver
0
Bronze
1
Total
3
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
1906 Intercalated Games

Medalists

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Medal Name Sport Event
  Gold Hasan Gemici Wrestling Men's Freestyle Flyweight
  Gold Bayram Şit Wrestling Men's Freestyle Featherweight
  Bronze Adil Atan Wrestling Men's Freestyle Light-Heavyweight

Results by event

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Men's Team Competition

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  • Qualification Round (Group C)
  • Lost to Egypt (52-64)
  • Lost to Italy (37-49) → did not advance, 22nd place

It was a moderately successful campaign for the 15 wrestlers from Turkey who participated in the 1952 Olympics winning 2 golds in their overall total of 3 medals.[1] This however might look a bit disappointing comparing to their tremendous success in the previous edition at London in 1948 wherein 16 Turkish wrestlers secured 6 gold medals in a total tally of 11 medals. Amongst the gold medal winners for Turkey in 1952, Hasan Gemici retired only 3 years later in 1955 and became a coach. The other gold medal winner Bayram Sit however continued the sports and won a silver in 1954 World Championship before narrowly missing out on another medal in the next edition of the Olympics in 1956. The other medal winner was Adil Atan who won a bronze in light heavyweight freestyle. Although he never won another Olympics medal, he secured silver in World Championship at Tokyo in 1954 and then went on to win gold in the world cup competition in 1956 for Turkey in Istanbul.

References

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  1. ^ "Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics". Olympedia.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)