Turkish athletes completed the 14th day of Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Nur Tatar in women’s taekwondo 67 kg, defeated Australian Carmen Marton 11-1 in Round of 16, German Rabia Guelec 5-1 in the quarterfinal but lost to French Haby Niare 4-0 with golden point in the semi-final. She defeated Chia-Chia Chuang from Chiese Taipei 7-3 in the bronze medal match and won the bronze medal.
Turkish wrestler
Soner Demirtaş in men’s 74 kg, defeated Mongolian Unurbat Purevjav 3-1 (technical points:4-2) in 1/8 finals but lost to Iran’s Hassan Aliazam Yazdanicharati 3-0 (technical points: 7-0). As his Iranian opponent qualified to final, Soner earned to play repechage. He defeated Asnage Castellana from Haiti 4-0 (technical points: 12-0) in the repechage match and Kazak Galymzhan Usserbayev 3-0 (technical points: 6-0) in the bronze medal match and won the bronze medal.
Turkish athlete
Yasemin Can in women’s 5000 m final, finished the race in 14:56.96 and placed 6th.
Turkish athlete
İlke Özyüksel in women’s modern pentathlon, couldn’t take any points in fencing bonus round and in riding show jumping. İlke took 287 points from swimming by placing 5th in heat 4 with her 2:17.79 timing and she took 531 points from combined running/shooting by placing 12th with her 12:49.98 timing. With her 160 points from fencing ranking round that was held yesterday, İlke finished the competition in 35th place with 978 points.
Other Turkish wrestler
Süleyman Atlı in men’s 57 kg, defeated Romanian Ivan Guidea 3-1 (technical points 8-3) in 1/8 finals and got eliminated.
Turkish athletes’ competition schedule for
20 August 2016, Saturday:
• 16:00 Wrestling/Men’s Freestyle 86 kg (Carioca Arena 2 – Barra) - Selim Yaşar - Jaime Yusept Espinal (Puerto Rico) – 1/8 Finals
• 16:00 Wrestling/Men’s Freestyle 125 kg (Carioca Arena 2 – Barra) - Taha Akgül – Chuluunbat Jargalsaikhan (Mongolia) – 1/8 Finals
** Times are written according to Turkish local time.