Turkey at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Turkey participated in the Summer Olympics in 1952 in Helsinki, Finland with a delegation of 51 athletes (all men) in 31 competitions in four sports part. A total of three medals ( two gold and one bronze ) could be achieved. The youngest athlete was the basketball player Yalçin granite (19 years and 306 days), the oldest athlete was the football player Muzaffer Tokaç (29 years and 290 days). It was the eighth part of the country at the Olympic Summer Games.

  • 2.1 Basketball
  • 2.2 Football
  • 2.3 Athletics
  • 2.4 rings

Medalist

Gold

Bronze

Participants by sport

Basketball

  • Results first Group Stage: Group C, third place, left without a win Game one: 64:45 defeat against Egypt Game two: 49:37 defeat against Italy Rank 20
  • Squad Yüksel alkane Altan Dinçer Nejat Diyarbakırlı Yalçin granite Sadi Gülçelik Yılmaz Gündüz Erdoğan partener Sacit Seldüz Turhan Tezol Ali Uras Mehmet Ali Yalım

Football

  • Results Second round: 2:1 victory against the Netherlands Antilles Goals: Bilge Tekin, Muzaffer Tokaç Quarterfinals: 1:7 defeat against Hungary Goals: Ercüment Güder fifth
  • Squad Erdoğan Akın Kamil Altan Bilge Tekin Ridvan Bolatlı Yalçin Çaka Vasif Çetinel Basri Dirimlili Mustafa Ertan Ercüment Güder Macit Gürdal Necdet Şentürk Muzaffer Tokaç

Athletics

  • Doğan Acarbay 400 Meter Dash
  • 400 Meter Hurdles
  • Avni Akgun long-jump
  • Akın Altiok Triple Jump
  • Ahmet Aytar marathon
  • Erdal Barkay 110 Meter Hurdles
  • Osman Coşgül 5,000 meter run
  • Emin Doybak 400 Meter Dash
  • 400 Meter Hurdles
  • Turhan Göker 800 Meter Dash
  • Kemal Horulu 400 Meter Hurdles
  • Ekrem Koçak 800 Meter Dash
  • Cahit Önel 1,500 meter run
  • 3,000 meters steeplechase
  • Nuri Turan Shot Put
  • Discus Throw
  • Halil Zıraman javelin

Wrestling

Freestyle

  • Irfan Atan heavyweight
  • Mehmet Ali Islioğlu welterweight
  • Cemil Sarıbacak bantamweight
  • Bayram Sit feather-weight
  • Tevfik Yüce Lightweight
  • Zafer Haydar middle-weight

Greco-Roman

  • Fahrettin Akbaş flyweight
  • Raif Akbulut Lightweight
  • Ismet Atli Light Heavyweight
  • Hasan Bozbey feather-weight
  • Kemal Demirsüren bantamweight
  • Ali Ozdemir middle-weight
  • Ahmet Senol welterweight
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