No gold after 40 years: We finish the 2024 Paris Olympic Games with 8 medals

The Paris 2024 Olympic Games conclude today following the closing ceremony. Turkey finished the Paris Olympics by winning 3 silver and 5 bronze medals. For the first time since the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, Turkey failed to win a gold medal at an Olympic Games.

According to ANKA's report, Turkey won 2 silver and 1 bronze medal in women's boxing. Hatice Akbaş and Buse Naz Çakıroğlu lost their final matches to take silver medals, while Esra Yıldız Kahraman won her third-place match to take home a bronze medal.

In the shooting discipline, the mixed 10-meter air pistol team consisting of Şevval İlayda Tarhan and Yusuf Dikeç won a silver medal after being defeated by Serbia in the final.

METE GAZOZ SETTLED FOR BRONZE THIS TIME

Defending Olympic champion Mete Gazoz finished the Paris Olympics with a bronze medal. The men's archery team, consisting of Mete Gazoz, Ulaş Berkim Tümer, and Abdullah Yıldırmış, won a bronze medal.

Turkey won two bronze medals this year in wrestling, the sport in which it has been most successful in Olympic history. Buse Naz Çavuşoğlu in the women's 68 kg category and Taha Akgül in the men's 125 kg category won bronze medals. In the taekwondo discipline, Nafia Kuş Aydın won a bronze medal in the women's 67 kg category.

KUZEY TUNÇELLİ BROKE THE WORLD JUNIOR RECORD

The "Sultans of the Net" (women's national volleyball team) finished fourth in the Olympics, where they reached the semi-finals for the first time in their history, after losing to Italy in the semi-finals and to Brazil in the third-place match. In swimming, 16-year-old athlete Kuzey Tunçelli, who represented Turkey in a final for the first time in Olympic history, finished 5th with a time of 14:41.22 and broke the "World Junior Record."

WE SLIPPED FROM 20TH TO 64TH PLACE

Turkey experienced its least successful Olympic Games since 1984. Turkey had finished the previous Olympics (Tokyo 2020) with 2 gold, 2 silver, and 9 bronze medals. Having ranked 20th in the medal standings in Tokyo, Turkey finished Paris 2024 in 64th place.

First represented in London 1908, Turkey had accumulated 41 gold, 27 silver, and 36 bronze medals up until the Paris Olympics. With the 8 medals won at these Olympics, Turkey increased its total medal count in Olympic history to 112.

OUR FIRST MEDAL IN SHOOTING

Competing in the mixed 10-meter air pistol category at the Paris Olympics, Şevval İlayda Tarhan and Yusuf Dikeç won Turkey's first-ever medal in the shooting discipline in Olympic history. Shooting became the 10th sport in which Turkey has won a medal throughout its Summer Olympics history.

News Source: 12punto