Turkish athletes completed the 9th day of Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Turkish boxer
Batuhan Gözgeç in men’s 64 kg defeated Brazilian Joedison Teixeira 3-0 in the match of Round of 16 and qualified to quarterfinals. He will face with German Artem Harutyunyan on the night of 16th August at 00:00.
Turkish athlete
Esma Aydemir in marathon women, finished the race in 58th place with her 2:39:59 timing,
Sultan Haydar placed 111th with her 2:53:57 timing and
Meryem Erdoğan placed 112th with her 2:54:04 timing.
Turkish athlete
Jak Ali Harvey in men’s 100 m, finished the race in 4th place in semi-final 1 and placed 10th in general ranking with his 10.01 timing and couldn’t qualify to the final.
Turkish badminton player
Özge Bayrak, in women’s singles, defeated South Korean Yeonju Bae 2-0 (21-11, 21-7) in the second match of Group I and placed second in her group. With this result, she got eliminated.
Turkish rider
Ömer Karaevli placed 61st by getting 12 jumping penalties and 1 timing penalties, total 13 penalties and got eliminated.
Turkish wrestler
Selçuk Çebi in men’s greco-roman 75 kg lost to Croatian Bozo Starcevic in the 1/8 finals and got eliminated.
Tukish sailor
Alican Kaynar in finn class, finished his 9th race in 12th place and 10th race in 11th place. Alican placed 13th in general ranking and couldn’t qualify to the medal race.
Turkish sailors
Ateş-Deniz Çınar pair in men’s 470 class, placed 15th in their 6th race, 12th in their 7th race. They are now in 13th place in general ranking after 7 races.
Furthermore,
Turkish women basketball team will face with Spain in the quarterfinals who defeated Canada 73-60 and placed 2nd in Group B. The quarterfinal match between Turkey and xxxx will be played on 16 of August in Carioca Arena 1, Barra. The time of the match is TBD.
Turkish athletes’ competition schedule for 15 August 2016, Monday:
• 15:30 Athletics/Men’s Triple Jump (Olympic Stadium – Engenhão) Şeref Osmanoğlu - Elemeler – Qualification – Group B
• 15:52 Canoe Sprint/Women’s Single K1 200 m (Lagoa Stadium – Copacabana) – Lasma Liepa – Heat 3 (if appl. semi-finals: 17:00)
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16:00 (beginning of qualifications) Wrestling/Greco-roman 130 kg (Carioca Arena 2 – Barra) - Rıza Kayaalp - Erwin Jose Caraballo Cabrera (Venezuela) – 1/8 Finals (will continue with 1/4, semi-finals, repechage, bronze and gold medal matches)
• 16:25 Athletics/ Men’s 3000 m Steeplechase (Olympic Stadium – Engenhão)- Halil Akkaş – Heat 1
• 16:40 Athletics/ Men’s 3000 m Steeplechase (Olympic Stadium – Engenhão)- Aras Kaya – Heat 2
• 16:55 Athletics/ Men’s 3000 m Steeplechase (Olympic Stadium – Engenhão)- Tarık Langat Akdağ – Heat 3
• 17:42 Athletics/Men’s 400 m Hurdles (Olympic Stadium – Engenhão) - Yasmani Copello Escobar – Round 1 – Heat 2
• 19:05 Sailing/ 470 class (Marina da Glória, Copacabana) –Ateş-Deniz Çınar – Races 8-9-10
*Times are Estimated time (EET)
** Times are written according to Turkish local time.
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