Turkey will participate in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games with 102 athletes.

In the 100th year of the Republic of Turkey’s participation in the Olympic Games, Team Turkey will compete in Paris 2024 with 102 athletes.

The Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games will take place between July 26 and August 11, 2024. The games will feature 32 sports, held in 35 competition venues, with approximately 10,500 athletes participating in 329 medal events. In addition to the 28 sports already in the Olympic Program, breakdancing, surfing, skateboarding, and sport climbing will be included in Paris 2024.

Previously hosting the 1900 and 1924 Olympics, Paris will host the Summer Olympic Games for the third time in 2024. France has previously hosted the Winter Olympics three times (1992, 1968, 1924). While Tokyo 2020 made significant progress towards gender equality with 48.8% female athlete participation, Paris 2024 is expected to achieve a perfect 50-50 male-female ratio.

For the first time in Olympic history, the marathon race will be open to the public. Amateur runners who excel in various running events on the road to Paris 2024 will compete on the same course as the professional athletes at the Olympics. For the first time in the history of the Summer Olympic Games, the opening ceremony will not take place in a stadium. The opening ceremony will be held in the city center along the Seine River, concluding at Trocadero, where the final performances will take place after a 6-kilometer route.

With 17 days left until the Paris 2024 Olympic Games held from July 26 to August 11, Team Turkey, representing Turkey in the Games, has been announced. As of July 8, Monday, it has been confirmed that a total of 102 athletes will participate in 18 sports disciplines, with 54 women and 48 men in the Centennial Team. This marks the second time since London 2012 that the number of female athletes in our delegation has exceeded the number of male athletes.

In shooting, Yusuf Dikeç will represent Turkey at the Olympic Games for the 5th consecutive time starting from Beijing 2008, becoming the most participating shooter in Olympic history. A total of 7 shooters will aim to win the first Olympic medal in shooting.

In athletics, Rio 2016 bronze medalist Yasmani Copello will participate in the Games for the third consecutive time. The athletics team will also include Tuğba Danışmaz, Ersu Şaşma, Eda Tuğsuz, and Necati Er, who ranked in the top positions in their respective disciplines in Tokyo 2020.

In badminton, Neslihan Yiğit Arıkan, the first badminton athlete in Olympic history (London 2012), will represent Turkey once again in Paris 2024.

The only representative in cycling, Burak Abay, will experience his first Olympic Games in road racing.

In boxing, champion Busenaz Sürmeneli and silver medalist Buse Naz Çakıroğlu, who were the first female Olympic medalists in boxing history in Tokyo 2020, will be among the contenders for medals once again. In addition to the 6 Olympic quotas won by female boxers, 3 male boxers will also compete for medals in the ring.

In artistic gymnastics, the first male team in Olympic history will compete in Paris 2024. Ferhat Arıcan, the only gymnast with a bronze medal in Olympic history from Tokyo 2020, along with Ahmet Önder, Adem Asil, İbrahim Çolak, and Emre Dodanlı, who will experience their first Olympic Games, will be among the representatives.

In fencing, Enver Yıldırım will be the first representative in the sword discipline since Munich 1972. Nisanur Erbil will be the first female fencer in history to experience the Olympics in the sword discipline.

The national wrestlers, holders of 66 out of 104 Olympic medals (29 gold, 18 silver, 19 bronze), including Taha Akgül, who will aim for a medal in his 4th Olympic Games after his gold in Rio 2016 and bronze in Tokyo 2020, Yasemin Adar, the first female wrestler to win an Olympic medal in our history with her bronze in Tokyo 2020, and Buse Çavuşoğlu and Ali Cengiz, the current world champions, will be on the mat in Paris 2024.

Muhammed Furkan Özbek will represent the star and crescent in weightlifting for the second time after Tokyo 2020 in Paris 2024.

In judo, Kayra Sayit, who finished fifth in Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, and Mihael Zgank, who will aim for a medal in Paris 2024 after his fifth place in Tokyo 2020, along with 8 athletes, will compete for medals in the Olympics, which will feature the highest number of judokas in Olympic history.

In taekwondo, alongside the bronze medalists from Tokyo 2020 Hatice Kübra İlgün and Hakan Reçber, Merve Dinçel Kavurat, Nafia Kuş Aydın, and Emre Kutalmış Ateşli, who ranked among the top 5 in their weight categories, will compete in the Games.

The Women’s National Volleyball Team, which represented Turkey for the first time in London 2012 and finished in fifth place in Tokyo 2020, will aim for its first medal in team sports in Paris 2024.

In freestyle swimming at 1500 meters, Kuzey Tunçelli, the recent European champion in both junior and senior categories and the youngest athlete (16 years old) among all teams, will be among the 8 swimmers aiming to reach their first Olympic final and subsequently win their first medal.

Deniz Çınar will experience his fifth consecutive Olympic Games in sailing, becoming the most participated sailor in the Games, while Alican Kaynar will compete for the first time in the Nacra 17 class in his fourth consecutive Olympic Games, accompanied by 6 more athletes.

The 102 athletes competing in 18 disciplines are as follows:

Shooting: 4 women, 3 men
Athletics: 6 women, 10 men
Badminton: 1 woman
Cycling: 1 man
Boxing: 5 women, 3 men
Artistic Gymnastics: 5 men
Fencing: 1 woman, 1 man
Wrestling: 5 women, 6 men
Weightlifting: 1 man
Judo: 3 women, 5 men
Rowing: 1 woman
Table Tennis: 1 woman
Modern Pentathlon: 1 woman, 1 man
Archery: 1 woman, 3 men
Taekwondo: 3 women, 2 men
Volleyball: 13 women
Swimming: 4 women, 4 men
Sailing: 5 women, 3 men
Total: 54 women, 48 men, 102 athletes