Over 100 athletes to represent Turkey in Summer Olympics

The long-delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics, slated for July 23-Aug. 8, will host more than 100 Turkish athletes in 18 branches.

Representing Turkey in the 2020 Summer Olympics that will be held in Tokyo, Japan will be 108 athletes - the largest-ever Olympic team from the country after 114 athletes in the London 2012 Summer games.

A record 58 male Olympians will compete for their nation, eclipsing 57 in the 1936 Berlin and 1948 London games.

Fifty female athletes are set to strongly represent the country. This will be the second-most female Olympians representing Turkey after the London Olympics in 1966.

The Olympics, which pushed ahead from last year because of the pandemic, will be held from July 23 to Aug. 8, followed by the Paralympic Games from Aug. 24 to Sept. 5.

National women's volleyball team to clash for medal

The Turkish women's national volleyball team will play against China, the U.S., Argentina, Italy, and Russia in Group B.

The players included in the squad are Naz Aydemir Akyol, Cansu Özbay, Meryem Boz, Ebrar Karakurt, Meliha Ismailoğlu, Hande Baladin, Şeyma Ercan, Tuğba Şenoğlu, Eda Erdem Dündar, Zehra Güneş, Kubra Akman, Aslı Kalaç, Simge Akçz, and Ayca Aykaç.

Though 14 players have been invited, Italian coach Giovanni Guidetti will finalize his 12-woman squad.

National athletes

Athletics (25): Emel Dereli (Shot put), Ramil Guliyev (200 meters), Abdulselam Imuk, Ayse Tekdal, Meryem Pekmez, Evin Demir, Sahin Senoduncu, Salih Korkmaz (20 kilometer racewalking), Yasmani Copello Escobar (400 meters hurdles), Yasemin Can (5,000 and 10,000 metre run), Eda Tüğsüz (Javelin throw), Meryem Erdoğan, Yavuz Ağralı, Polat Kemboi Arıkan, Kagan Kigen Özbilen ...

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