13.08.2016
Turkish athletes completed the 7th day of Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Turkish judoka Kayra Sayit in women’s +78 kg, defeated Puerto Rican Melissa Mojica in Round of 16 to qualify for the quarterfinals. She lost to Chinese Song Yu in quarterfinals but defeated Tunisian Cheikh Rouhou with ippon to play the bronze medal match. She lost to Japanese Kanae Yamabe with waza-ari in the bronze final match and placed 5th.
Turkish athlete Emel Dereli in women’s shot put, threw 17.01 m in her first attempt in Group Aand got eliminated by placing 11th in her group and 24th in general ranking. Emel threw 16.86 m in her second chance and made a faul in third.
Yasemin Can, in women’s 10.000 m, placed 7th with her 30:26.41 timing, bettering her personal best from 31:12.86.
Ersin Tacir placed 30th with his 1:22.53 timing and Mert Atlı placed 62nd with his 1:31.36 timing in men’s 20 km race walk.
Kıvılcım Kaya Salman in women’s hammer throw made fauls in her two attempts and threw 64.79 in her third and last attempt and placed 14th in Group A, 26th in general ranking and got eliminated. Tuğçe Şahutoğlu in the same discipline, threw 67.05 in her second attempt and placed 10th in Group B and 21st in general ranking and got eliminated as well. Tuğçe had thrown 65.47 in her first attempt.
Turkish rowers Hüseyin Kandemir and Cem Yılmaz pair in lightweight men’s double sculls finished C Finals in 6:47.06 and placed 4th. With this result the Turkish pair placed 16th in general ranking.
Turkish boxer Önder Şipal in men’s 75 kg, lost to India’s Krishan Vikas 3–0 in the match of Round of 16 and got eliminated.
Turkish weightlifter Assiya İpek in women’s 75 kg in Group B, lifted 83 kg in snatch, 103 kg in clean and jerk and placed 6th in her group and 13th in general ranking with 186 kg in total.
Turkish sailor Nazlı Çağla Dönertaş in women’s laser radial, placed 5th in her 7th race and 28th in her 8th race. She is now in 15th place in general ranking.
Turkish sailors Ateş-Deniz Çınar pair in men’s 470 class, placed 7th in their 5th race. Their 6th race postponed to 14 August 19:15 Turkish local time due to the bad weather conditions. They are now in 14th place in general ranking.
Turkish sailor Onur Cavit Biriz in RS:X men, couldn’t finish 10th and 12th race and placed 33rd in his 11th race. Onur placed 35th in general ranking. Dilara Uralp in RS:X women, placed 20th in her 10th race, 24th in her 11th race and 19th in her 12th race. She placed 22nd in general ranking.
Turkish athletes’ competition schedule for 13 August 2016, Saturday:
• 16:05 Athletics/Women’s, 3000 m Hurdles (Olympic Stadium – Engenhão) - Özlem Kaya – Heat 1
• 16:21 Athletics/Women’s, 3000 m Hurdles (Olympic Stadium – Engenhão) - Meryem Akdağ – Heat 2
• 16:37 Athletics/Women’s, 3000 m Hurdles (Olympic Stadium – Engenhão) - Tuğba Güvenç – Heat 3
• 18:00 Athletics/Men’s 100 m (Olympic Stadium – Engenhão) - Jak Ali Harvey – Round 1
• 19:05 Sailing/Finn Class (Marina da Glória, Copacabana) – Alican Kaynar – Race 7-8
• 19:15 Sailing/Laser Radial (Marina da Glória, Copacabana) – Nazlı Çağla Dönertaş – Race 9-10
• 19:45 Boxing/+91 kg (Riocentro - Pavilion 6 – Barra) – Ali Eren Demirezen- Filip Hrgovic (Croatia) – Round of 16
• 21:30 Badminton/Women’s Singles (Riocentro-Pavilion 4-Barra) – Özge Bayrak – Jeannine Cicognini (İtalya) – Group I
• 21:30 Women’s Basketball (Youth Arena, Deodoro) Turkey – Brasil (Group A)
• 23:30 Boxing/52 kg (Riocentro - Pavilion 6 – Barra) – Selçuk Eker- Jianguan Hu (China) – Round of 32
• Next night 03:27 Athletics/Men’s, 10.000 m (Olympic Stadium – Engenhão) - Ali Kaya and Polat Kemboi Arıkan
*Times are Estimated time (EET)
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