Athens 2004 Olympic Games - Turkey To Attend With 67 Competitors In 10 Categories

ANKARA - Turkey will attend Athens 2004 Olympic Games, which will be held between August 13 and 29, with 67 competitors in 10 categories.
Turkish State Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Ali Sahin and Youth and Sports General Director Mehmet Atalay held a news conference in Ankara and announced the names of the Turkish athletes which will participate in Olympic Games.
The highest participation will be on athletics category with 14 competitors. Wrestling ranks the second with 12 competitors and weight-lifting the third with 10 competitors.
Turkish team will be comprised of 108 people including 67 competitors, 6 team leader, 23 coaches and 12 director general.
The names of Turkish competitors and their categories are as follows:

Shooting:
Coach: Ozer Tuzun
Competitor: Oguzhan Tuzun

Athletics:
Coaches: Artun Talay, Yucel Kop, Resat Oguz and Ertan Hatipoglu
Men: Ercument Olgundeniz (discus thrower), Esref Apak (hammer thrower), Berk Tuna (triple jumper), Selahattin Cobanoglu (800 meters)
Women: Filiz Kadogan (shot putter), Ebru Kavaklioglu (5000 meters), Candeger Kilincer Oguz (high jumper), Elvan Abeylegesse (5000 and 1500 meters), Sureyya Ayhan (1500 meters), Tezeta Dangersa (5000 meters), Binnaz Uslu (800 meters), Lale Ozturk (marathon runner), Yeliz Ay (walker), Anzhela Atroschenko (Heptathlon)

Boxing:
Coaches: Ahmet Uygur, Nazim Dalkiran and Esalettin Pekdogan
Competitors: Atagun Yalcinkaya (48 kg), Sedat Tasci (57 kg), Selcuk Aydin (60 kg), Mustafa Karagollu (64 kg), Bulent Ulusoy (69 kg), Serdar Ustuner (75 kg), Ihsan Yildirim Tarhan (81 kg), Ertugrul Ergezen (91 kg)

Wrestling:
Coaches (free-style): Kharitou Apaeva and Avni Tarhan
Competitors (free-style): Harun Dogan (55 kg), Tevfik Odabasi (60 kg), Omer Cubukcu (66 kg), Gokhan Yavaser (84 kg), Fatih Cakiroglu (96 kg), Aydin Polatci (120 kg)
Coaches (graeco-roman style): Majidau Kamandar, Yuksel Seckin Saruhan and Ata Karatas
Competitors (graeco-roman style): Ercan Yildiz (55 kg), Seref Tufenk (60 kg), Seref Eroglu (66 kg), Hamza Yerlikaya (84 kg), Mehmet Ozal (96 kg), Yekta Yilmaz Gul (120 kg)

Weight-lifting:
Coaches: Enver Turkileri, Cafer Topcu, Ergun Batmaz and Nurcihan Gonul
Women: Nurcan Taylan (48 kg), Aylin Dasdelen (58 kg), Sibel Simsek (69 kg), Sule Sahbaz (75 kg)
Men: Halil Mutlu and Sedat Artuc (56 kg), Reyhan Arabacioglu and Taner Sagir (77 kg), Izzet Ince (85 kg), Hakan Yilmaz (94 kg)

Judo:
Coach: Haldun Efemgil
Men: Bektas Demirel (66 kg), Selim Tataroglu (100 kg)
Women: Nese Sensoy Yildiz (48 kg)

Archery:
Coach: Mario Codispoti
Women: Damla Gunay, Natalia Nasaridze, Zekiye Keskin
Men: Hasan Orbay

Taekwondo:
Coach: Hoo Joo Lee
Men: Bahri Tanrikulu

Yachting:
Coach: Malte Philipp
Men: Selim Kakis and Enver Adakan (Finn), Kaan Ozgonenc (470), Ertugrul Icingir (Mistral), Kemal Muslubas (Laser)

Swimming:
Coaches: Yilmaz Ozuak, Ali Ozuak
Men: Aytekin Mindan (200-400 meters free-style), Kaan Tayla (50-100 meters free-style), Derya Buyukuncu (100-200 meters backstroke), Onur Uras (100 meters butterfly), Orel Oral (200 meters medley)
Women: Ilkay Dikmen (100-200 meters breaststroke), Gulsah Gonenc (100-200 meters butterfly), Derya Erke (100-200 meters backstroke), Yasemin Ozlem Taskin (400 meters free-style)

Meanwhile, seven Turkish referees, Omer Coskun (Boxing), Ender Buyukersen and Ibrahim Cicioglu (wrestling), Musa Colak (weight-lifting), Coskun Eftekin (Taekwondo), Erhan Tulga (swimming), Umit Sokullu (Volleyball), will attend the Olympic Games.
(GC-ULG) 02.08.2004