Turkey at the 2026 Mediterranean Games

Turkey at the
2026 Mediterranean Games
Turkey at the; 2026 Mediterranean Games
IOC code	TUR
NOC	Turkish Olympic Committee
in Taranto; 21 August – 3 September
Competitors	335 in 29 sports
Flag bearers	Nesrin Baş, Emre Sakçı
Medals	Gold 31 Silver 14 Bronze 20 Total 65
Mediterranean Games appearances (overview)
	1951; 1955; 1959; 1963; 1967; 1971; 1975; 1979; 1983; 1987; 1991; 1993; 1997; 2001; 2005; 2009; 2013; 2018; 2022; 2026;

Türkiye will participate in the 2026 Mediterranean Games in Taranto, Italy from 21 August to 3 September 2026. 335 athletes, including137 female and 198 male, from Türkiye were registered to compete in 29 sports at the Games.^[1]

IOC codeTUR

NOCTurkish Olympic Committee

Competitors335 in 29 sports

FlagbearersNesrin Baş, Emre Sakçı

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Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Wrestling	8	3	4	15
Taekwondo	5	0	1	6
Badminton	4	0	0	4
Shooting	3	2	2	7
Judo	3	0	2	5
Swimming	2	2	3	7
Boxing	1	2	3	6
Fencing	1	2	1	4
Finswimming	1	1	2	4
Archery	1	1	1	3
Rhythmic gymnastics	1	0	0	1
Table tennis	1	0	0	1
Boules	0	1	1	2
Totals (13 entries)	31	14	20	65

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Elif Sude Akgül	Taekwondo	Women's -49 kg	22 August
Gold	Enes Kaplan	Taekwondo	Men's -58 kg	22 August
Gold	Hatice Kübra İlgün	Taekwondo	Women's -57 kg	22 August
Gold	Enver Yıldırım	Fencing	Men's Individual sabre	22 August
Gold	Muhammet Karavuş	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 57 kg	23 August
Gold	Yasemen Bektaş Emre Sönmez	Badminton	Mixed Doubles	23 August
Gold	Işıl Zafer	Taekwondo	Women's -67 kg	23 August
Gold	Sude Yaren Uzunçavdar	Taekwondo	Women's +67 kg	23 August
Gold	Doruk Yoğurtçuoğlu	Swimming	Men's 200 m breaststroke	23 August
Gold	Yunus Emre Başar	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 77 kg	23 August
Gold	Emre Sakçı	Swimming	Men's 50 m breaststroke	24 August
Gold	Ahmet Duman	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 65 kg	24 August
Gold	Hakan Büyükçıngıl	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 125 kg	24 August
Gold	Zehra Demirhan	Wrestling	Women's freestyle 50 kg	25 August
Gold	Zeynep Yetgil	Wrestling	Women's freestyle 53 kg	25 August
Gold	Elvira Kamaloğlu	Wrestling	Women's freestyle 57 kg	25 August
Gold	Nesrin Baş	Wrestling	Women's freestyle 68 kg	25 August
Gold	Hatice Gokce Emir	Rhythmic gymnastics	Individual all-around	26 August
Gold	Safiye Sarıtürk Temizdemir	Shooting	Women's Trap	26 August
Gold	Neslihan Arın	Badminton	Women's singles	26 August
Gold	Kaan Efe Kaya	Finswimming	Men's 400 m bi-fins	26 August
Gold	İsmail Keleş	Shooting	Men's 10 m air pistol	27 August
Gold	Mehmethan Çınar	Boxing	Men's 60 kg	27 August
Gold	Yavuz İlnam Safiye Sarıtürk Temizdemir	Shooting	Trap team	27 August
Gold	Elif Berra Gökkır Gizem Özkan Dünya Yenihayat	Archery	Women's team	28 August
Gold	Tuğçe Beder	Judo	Women's -60 kg	28 August
Gold	Buğra Aktaş Emre Sönmez	Badminton	Men's Doubles	28 August
Gold	Bengisu Erçetin Nazlıcan İnci	Badminton	Women's Doubles	28 August
Gold	Tuana Gülenay	Judo	Women's -78 kg	29 August
Gold	İbrahim Tataroğlu	Judo	Men's +100 kg	29 August
Gold	Ece Haraç Abdullah Talha Yiğenler	Table tennis	Mixed team	29 August
Silver	Furkan Yaman	Fencing	Men's Individual sabre	22 August
Silver	Nisanur Erbil	Fencing	Women's Individual sabre	22 August
Silver	Çiğdem Özyaman	Shooting	Women's Skeet	23 August
Silver	Muhammet Seyhun Kaya	Shooting	Men's Skeet	23 August
Silver	Ahmet Mete Boylu	Swimming	Men's 200 m freestyle	23 August
Silver	İsmail Küçüksolak	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 86 kg	24 August
Silver	Mine Türker	Boules	Lyonnaise – Women's progressive shooting	25 August
Silver	Berke Saka	Swimming	Men's 200 m individual medley	25 August
Silver	Ebru Dağbaşı	Wrestling	Women's freestyle 62 kg	25 August
Silver	Kadriye Aksoy Koçak	Wrestling	Women's freestyle 76 kg	25 August
Silver	Emre Gurdenli	Finswimming	Men's 100 m bi-fins	26 August
Silver	Sema Çalışkan	Boxing	Women's 65 kg	27 August
Silver	Berat Acar	Boxing	Men's +90 kg	27 August
Silver	Dünya Yenihayat Mete Gazoz	Archery	Mixed team	28 August
Bronze	Sudem Denizli	Swimming	Women's 200 m Backstroke	22 August
Bronze	Hüseyin Berat Demircioğlu	Taekwondo	Men's +80 kg	23 August
Bronze	Murat Fırat	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 67 kg	23 August
Bronze	Doğan Kaya	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 87 kg	23 August
Bronze	Aleyna Ertürk	Fencing	Women's Individual épée	23 August
Bronze	Nusrat Allahverdi	Swimming	Men's 50 m breaststroke	24 August
Bronze	Yasin Yeşil	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 74 kg	24 August
Bronze	Resul Güne	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 97 kg	24 August
Bronze	Abdullah Kaplan	Boules	Raffa – Men's individual	25 August
Bronze	Polat Uzer Turnalı	Swimming	Men's 200 m butterfly	25 August
Bronze	Ece Asude Ediz	Boxing	Women's 57 kg	26 August
Bronze	Sude Nur Aslan	Boxing	Women's 75 kg	26 August
Bronze	Dilara Sak	Boxing	Women's 70 kg	26 August
Bronze	Buğra Selimzade	Shooting	Men's 10 m air pistol	27 August
Bronze	Şevval İlayda Tarhan	Shooting	Women's 10 m air pistol	29 August

Athletes	Event	Preliminary				Quarterfinals	Semifinal	Final / BM	Rank
Athletes	Event	Match 1	Match 2	Match 3	Rank	Quarterfinals	Semifinal	Final / BM	Rank
Turkey	Men	Portugal	Serbia	Kosovo

Athletes	Event	Preliminary				Quarterfinals	Semifinal	Final / BM	Rank
Athletes	Event	Match 1	Match 2	Match 3	Rank	Quarterfinals	Semifinal	Final / BM	Rank
Turkey	Women	Tunisia	Algeria	Cyprus

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Berkay Akkoyun	Individual	636	12	Bye	Charisis (GRE) W 6-2	Viale (FRA) L 2-6	Did not advance			10
Berkim Tümer		644	8	Bye	Karageorgiou (GRE) W 6-0	Antoku (ESP) L 2-6	Did not advance			10
Mete Gazoz		656	2	Bye	Themelis (GRE) W 6-0	Vrbec (SLO) W 6-2	Gregori (ITA) L 0-6	Did not advance		8
Berkay Akkoyun Berkim Tümer Mete Gazoz	Team	1936	3	N/a		Bye	Egypt (EGY) W 6-0	Spain (ESP) L 3-5	Italy (ITA) W 6-0

Turkey at the 2026 Mediterranean Games

IOC code	TUR
NOC	Turkish Olympic Committee
in Taranto 21 August – 3 September
Competitors	335 in 29 sports
Flag bearers	Nesrin Baş, Emre Sakçı
Medals	Gold 31 Silver 14 Bronze 20 Total 65
Mediterranean Games appearances (overview)
1951 1955 1959 1963 1967 1971 1975 1979 1983 1987 1991 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013 2018 2022 2026

Athlete	Event	Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Ertan Özkan	100 m
Oğuz Uyar	200 m
Deniz Kaan Kartal	200 m
Kubilay Ençü	400 m
İsmail Nezir	400 m
Ömer Faruk Bozdağ	800 m
Salih Teksöz	1500 m
Mehmet Çelik	1500 m
Abdurrahman Gediklioğlu	5000 m
Ramazan Baştuğ	10000 m
Ali Kaya	Half marathon
Ramazan Baştuğ	Half marathon
Koray Uygun	110 m hurdles
Mikdat Sevler	110 m hurdles
İsmail Nezir	400 m hurdles
Berke Akçam	400 m hurdles
Deniz Kaan Kartal Kubilay Ençü İsmail Nezir Batuhan Altıntaş İhsan Selçuk Berke Akçam	4 × 100 m relay

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Nurullah Saraç	Men's singles	Bye	Toti (ITA) L 0–2 (19–21, 9–21)	Did not advance			9
Yusuf Yaşar	Men's singles	Jelenc (SLO) W 2–0 (21–11, 21–14)	Abdelhalim (EGY) W 2–0 (21–17, 21–19)	Vicen (ESP) L 0–2 (22–24, 14–21)	Did not advance		5
Emre Sönmez Buğra Aktaş	Men's doubles	N/a	Bye	Matteo Massetti David Salutt (ITA) W 2-0 (21–12, 21–19)	Miha Ivancic Tadej Jelenc (SLO) W 2-0 (21–17, 21–17)	Koceila Julien Mammeri Youcef Sabri Medel (ALG) W 2-0 (21–19, 21–19)

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Neslihan Arın	Women's singles	Bye	Mafalda Avelino (POR) W 2-0 (21–10, 21–14)	Anja Blazina (SLO) W 2-0 (21–14, 21–13)	Leonice Huet (FRA) W 2-0 (21–8, 21–18)	Yasmine Hamza (ITA) W 2-0 (21–17, 21–15)
Bengisu Erçetin Nazlıcan İnci	Women's doubles	N/a	Bye	Yasmine Hamza Gianna Stiglich Guzman (ITA) W 2-0 (21–13, 21–10)	Theodora Lamprianidou Eleni Moutevelidou (GRE) W 2-0 (21–4, 21–5)	Agathe Cuevas Elsa Jacob (FRA) W 2-0 (21–17, 21–17)

Athlete	Horse	Event	Round 1		Round 2			Final
			Round 1		Round 2			Round A		Round B		Total
			Penalties	Rank	CP	Total	Sıra	CP	Rank	CP	Rank	CP	Rank
Alin Yazıcı	Cornascriebe Emerald	Individual
Emre Buladoğlu	Maikel
Hasan Şentürk	Avan Toi
Necmi Eren	PSS Levilensky
Alin Yazıcı Emre Buladoğlu Hasan Şentürk Necmi Eren		Team

Athlete	Event	Match #1	Match #2	Match #3	Match #4	Match #5	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM	Rank
Enver Yıldırım	Sabre	Bounabi (ALG) W 5-1	Choureiry (FRA) L 2-5	Kontoeidis (GRE) W 5-1	Hesham (EGY) L 4-5	Cavaliere (ITA) W 5-2	Hospital (FRA) W 15-10	Moataz (EGY) W 15-13	Ferjani (TUN) W 15-14	Furkan Yaman (TUR) W 15-13
Furkan Yaman		Fraboulet (FRA) L 0-5	Cantini (ITA) W 5-3	Moataz (EGY) L 3-5	Madrigal (ESP) W 5-3	N/a	Cavaliere (ITA) W 15-11	Mastrullo (ITA) W 15-8	Madrigal (ESP) W 15-4	Enver Yıldırım (TUR) L 13-15
Enes Talha Kalender		Ferjani (TUN) L 4-5	Ibrihen (ALG) W 5-3	Mastrullo (ITA) L 1-5	Krajnc (SLO) W 5-4	Hospital (FRA) W 5-2	Fraboulet (FRA) W 15-10	Ferjani (TUN) L 12-15	Did not advance		8
Kıvanç Kırtay	Foil						Did not advance				15
Halis Efe Elibol	Epee						Did not advance				21

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Rank	Final	Rank
İsmail Keleş	10 m air pistol
Buğra Selimzade	10 m air pistol
Ömer Akgün	10 m air rifle
Mert Nalbant	10 m air rifle
Muhammet Kaya	Skeet
Mustafa Serhat Şahin	Skeet

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Rank	Final	Rank
Şevval İlayda Tarhan	10 m air pistol
Şimal Yılmaz	10 m air pistol
Elif Eren	10 m air rifle
Damla Köse	10 m air rifle
Nur Banu Balkancı	Skeet
Çiğdem Özyaman	Skeet
Safiye Sarıtürk Temizdemir	Trap

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Qualification	Final/BM	Qualification
İsmail Keleş Buğra Selimzade Şevval İlayda Tarhan Şimal Yılmaz	10 m air pistol
Ömer Akgün Elif Eren Damla Köse Mert Nalbant	10 m air rifle
Yavuz İlnam Rümeysa Pelin Kaya Safiye Sarıtürk Temizdemir Nedim Tolga Tuncer	Trap

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
İbrahim Gündüz	Men's singles
Görkem Öcal	Men's singles
İbrahim Gündüz Görkem Öcal Tugay Şirzat Yılmaz Abdullah Talha Yiğenler	Men's team	N/a	San Marino (SMR) W 3-0	France (FRA) L 2-3	Did not advance

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank
Alperen Acet	High jump
Ersu Şaşma	Pole Vault
Can Özüpek	Triple Jump
Ömer Şahin	Discus Throw
Özkan Baltacı	Hammer Throw
Muhammet Hanifi Zengin	Javelin Throw

Athlete	Event	Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Simay Özçiftçi	100 m
Sıla Koloğlu	100 m
Sıla Koloğlu	200 m
Elif Polat	200 m
Sıla Koloğlu	400 m
Elif Polat	400 m
Şilan Ayyıldız	1500 m
Yonca Kutluk Ala	5000 m
Derya Kunur	10000 m
Yonca Kutluk Ala	10000 m
Tuğba Güvenç Yenigün	3000 m steeplechase
Nursena Çeto	Half marathon
Simay Özçiftçi Sıla Koloğlu Elif Polat Büşra Akay	4 × 100 m relay
Simay Özçiftçi Sıla Koloğlu Elif Polat Şilan Ayyıldız	4 × 400 m relay

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank
Yasemin Zehra Börekçi	Long Jump
Tuğba Danışmaz	Long Jump
Özlem Becerek	Discus Throw
Esra Türkmen	Javelin Throw
Eda Tuğsuz	Javelin Throw

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
Enes Kaplan	58 kg	Bye	Boukarnia (FRA) W 2-0	Harbi (ALG) W 2-0	Teskera (CRO) W 2-0
Berkay Erer	68 kg	Merdanaj (ALB) W 2-0	Golubić (CRO) L 1-2	DNA		5
Yiğithan Kılıç	80 kg	Papadopoulos (GRE) L 0-2	DNA			9
Hüseyin Demircioğlu	+80 kg	Bye	Šapina (CRO) W 2-1	Georgievski (MKD) L 0-2	DNA

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Elif Sude Akgül	48 kg	Bye	Barroso (POR) W 2-0	Krim (FRA) W 2-1	Hinić (CRO) W 2-0
Hatice Kübra İlgün	57 kg	Boukhalfao (ALG) W 2-0	Lukić (SRB) W 2-1	Avdagić (BIH) W 2-1	Dehhaoui (MAR) W 1-1^DSQ
Işıl Zafer	67 kg	Bye	García (ESP) W 2-1	Laaraj (MAR) W 2-1	Masghouni (TUN) W 2-0
Sude Uzunçavdar	+67 kg	Bye	Rudolf (SLO) W 2-0	Zurdo (ESP) W 2-1	Šević (SRB) W 2-0

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Turkey	4	4	0	11	12	4	3.000	384	335	1.146	Final round
2	Greece	4	3	1	9	9	4	2.250	321	275	1.167	Final round
3	Spain	4	2	2	6	8	6	1.333	343	310	1.106
4	Egypt	4	1	3	3	4	9	0.444	272	295	0.922
5	Kosovo	4	0	4	1	2	12	0.167	229	334	0.686

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Turkey	4	4	0	12	12	1	12.000	322	190	1.695	Final round
2	Greece	4	3	1	9	10	4	2.500	319	258	1.236	Final round
3	Kosovo	4	2	2	6	6	7	0.857	287	281	1.021
4	North Macedonia	4	1	3	3	5	10	0.500	283	342	0.827
5	Algeria	4	0	4	0	1	12	0.083	185	325	0.569

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage	Final / BM	Rank
Muhammet Karavuş	57 kg	Galbouraev (FRA) W 8-2	Pirrone (ITA) W 10-0	Altabbaa (SYR) W 10-0	—	Usinova (MKD) W 12-2
Ahmet Duman	65 kg	Bye	Álvarez (ESP) W 11-1	Laribi (ALG) W 6-4	—	Abakarov (ALB) W 4-2
Yasin Yeşil	74 kg	Aisha (SYR) W 10-0	Ikkal (ALG) W 9-4	Vejseli (MKD) L 3-5	—	Mourad (EGY) W 13-3
İsmail Küçüksolak	86 kg	Bye	Magamadov (FRA) W 11-1	Iglesias (ESP) W 5-0	—	Kuyumçidis (GRE) L 0-8
Athlete	Event	Group stage			Group rank	Semifinal	Repechage	Final / BM	Rank
Resul Güne	97 kg	Viskhanov (FRA) L 8-12	Honis (ITA) W 10-3	Salahel (EGY) W 14-2	2	Kurugliyev (GRE) L 2-13	—	Viskhanov (FRA) W 6-6
Hakan Büyükçıngıl	125 kg	Khelif (ALG) W 10-0	Sheyatan (EGY) W 10-5	—	1	Conyedo (ITA) W 5-1	—	Sheyatan (EGY) W 4-3

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage	Final / BM	Rank
Ekrem Öztürk	60 kg	Bye	Alosta (SYR) L 4-8	DNA			7
Murat Fırat	67 kg	Loureiro (POR) G 8-0	Nifri (FRA) G 3-0	Abdelrehim (EGY) L 0-2	—	Etlinger (CRO) L 5-1
Yunus Emre Başar	77 kg	Kupi (ALB) W 5-0	Doulache (ALG) W 7-2 W 5-0	Alameldine (EGY) W 6-4	—	Kamenjaševiće (CRO) W 2-1
Doğan Kaya	87 kg	Bye	Pagkalidis (GRE) W 5-1	Dyab (EGY) L 3-12^DSQ	—	Nemeš (SRB) L 5-7
Beytullah Kayışdağ	97 kg	Kesidis (GRE) L 3-3	Samen (FRA) W 9-0	Komarov (SRB) L 1-4	—	DNA	5

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Zehra Demirhan	50 kg	Liuzzi (ITA) W 4-2	Ayachi (TUN) W 12-0	Haemmerle (FRA) W 10-0	Gkika (GRE) W 7-1
Zeynep Yetgil	53 kg	—	Prevolarak (GRE) W R	Debien (FRA) W 2-1	Jaume (ESP) W 10-0
Elvira Kamaloğlu	57 kg	—	Jeljeli (TUN) W 8-1	Rinella (ITA) W 11-0	Pérez (ESP) W 4-0
Ebru Dağbaşı	62 kg	Jakovljević (SRB) W 4-1	Danise (ITA) W 6-3	Hamdun (EGY) W 3-3	Douarre (FRA) L 1-3
Nesrin Baş	68 kg	Bye	Lecarpentier (FRA) W 6-0	Khamis (EGY) W 10-0	Godino (ITA) W 4-2
Kadriye Aksoy Koçak	76 kg	Rinaldi (ITA) W 3-2	Bouregba (ALG) W 4-0	Dacher (FRA) W 10-0	Amir (EGY) L 3-5

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