Turkey at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Turkey sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. The country represented by sixteen athletes, competing in shooting, archery, powerlifting, table tennis, wheelchair tennis, athletics and judo.^[1]

Turkey at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
IPC code	TUR
NPC	Turkish Paralympic Committee
Website	www.tmpk.org.tr (in Turkish)
in Beijing
Competitors	16 in 7 sports
Flag bearer	Korhan Yamaç
Medals Ranked 58th	Gold 1 Silver 0 Bronze 1 Total 2
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Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Gizem Girişmen	Archery	Women's individual recurve
Bronze	Neslihan Kavas	Table tennis	Women's single class 9

Sports

Archery

Main article: Archery at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
		Score	Seed	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Rank
Mustafa Demir	Men's individual recurve W1/W2	600	14	Browne (GBR) L 90-104	did not advance
Ozgur Ozen		591	16	Candela (ESP) W 96-87	Chopyk (UKR) W 107-100	Jung (KOR) W 103-102	Cheng C (CHN) L 98-112	Tseng L H (TPE) L 91-92	4

Women

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
		Score	Seed	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Rank
Gülbin Su	Women's individual compound	650	3	—		Nilsson (SWE) W 112-102	Kamiya (JPN) L 104-106	Clarke (GBR) L 109-113	4
Gizem Girismen	Women's individual recurve W1/W2	590	4	Bye	Kuncova (CZE) W 103-85	Dzoba (UKR) W 99-83	Xiao Y (CHN) W 95-93	Fu (CHN) W 91-85
Hanife Ozturk		503	14	Nakanishi (JPN) L 78-82	did not advance

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Men's track

Athlete	Class	Event	Heats		Final
			Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Kemal Ozdemir	T46	Marathon	—		3:11:12	13

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Athlete	Event	First Round	Semifinals	Repechage	Final/ Bronze medal contest
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Duygu Cete	Women's 57kg	Brussig (GER) L 0000–0010	—	Keramida (GRE) L 0010-1000	Did not advance

Powerlifting

Main article: Powerlifting at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Result	Rank
Turan Mutlu	52kg	137.5	9
Levent Tutgun	100kg	185.0	9

Women

Athlete	Event	Result	Rank
Nazmiye Muslu	40kg	90.0	4

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Total	Rank
Cevat Karagol	Men's 10m air pistol SH1	559	15	did not advance
	Mixed 50m pistol SH1	522	10	did not advance
Muharrem Korhan Yamac	Men's 10m air pistol SH1	563	8 Q	95.4	658.4	8
	Mixed 25m pistol SH1	552	16	did not advance
	Mixed 50m pistol SH1	532	6 Q	90.7	622.7	7

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Total	Rank
Aysel Ozgan	Women's 10m air pistol SH1	366	6 Q	90.2	456.2	7
Suzan Tekin	Women's 10m air rifle standing SH1	379	15	did not advance

Table tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries				Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Neslihan Kavas	Women's singles C9	Lei L (CHN) L 0–3	Maldonado (BRA) W 3–0	Belavic (SLO) W 3–0	2 Q	Liu M (CHN) L 1–3	Grzelak (POL) W 3-0

Wheelchair tennis

Main article: Wheelchair tennis at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Kemal Okur	Men's singles	Tenhunen (FIN) L 5–7, 3-6	did not advance

See also

• 2008 Summer Paralympics
• Turkey at the Paralympics
• Turkey at the 2008 Summer Olympics

External links

• Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games Official Site
• International Paralympic Committee