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1. RUHİ SARIALP
Ruhi Sarıalp (December 15, 1924 in Manisa –
March 3, 2001) was a Turkish track and field
athlete, who competed mainly in the triple
jump. He competed for Turkey in the 1948
Summer Olympics held in London, Great
Britain in the triple jump, where he won the
bronze medal with a mark of 15.02 m.
He started athletics during his education at the
military high school in Konya. In 1945, he broke
the Turkish record in triple jump. After his
bronze medal jump at the Olympics, he won
another bronze medal at the 1950 European
Athletics Championships in Brussels,Belgium.
He became so the first ever track and field
athlete from Turkey to win a medal at the
Olympics and the European Championships.

2. Kenan SOFUOĞLU
Kenan Sofuoğlu (born August 25, 1984
in Kuzuluk, Akyazı) is
Turkish professional motorcycle racer,
who has won the highest number
of Supersport World
Championship titles: three, in 2007,
2010 and 2012.
He competed in Moto2 for the
Technomag-CIP team, having made his
debut at the end of 2010 and
remained with the team for
the 2011 season. He previously won
the Supersport World
Championship for the Ten
Kate Honda in 2007 and 2010, and he
is the championship's all-time leading
race winner, having won 17 races. He
raced in the World Superbike
Championship for Ten Kate in 2008,
but with limited success.

3. Tanju ÇOLAK
Tanju Çolak (born 10 November 1963
in Samsun) is a retired Turkish footballer,
who played as a striker.
He made his debut for Samsun Yolspor.
From there he was transferred
to Samsunspor in 1981 where he was the
top scorer in both the 1985–86 and
1986–87 seasons. Çolak then moved
to Galatasaray in the end of 1986–87
season. He was the top scorer in Europe
with 39 goals in the 1987–88 season. At
the same time, he was awarded
the European Golden Boot given
by France Football.

4. Hamza YERLİKAYA
Hamza Yerlikaya (born June 6, 1976,
in Kadıköy, Istanbul) is a Turkish Graeco-
Roman style wrestler. He is a two-time
(in 1996 and 2000) Olympic champion, three-
time World Champion (1993, 1995, and
2005), and the only Turkish wrestler to ever
become European champion eight times. He
was named The Wrestler of the century in
1996 by the International Federation of
Associated Wrestling Styles (FILA).
He has won three more World Championships
(2002, 2003 and (at 96 kg) 2005). He has won
the European Seniors Championship eight
times (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002,
2005 and 2006).

5. Naim Süleymanoğlu
Naim Süleymanoğlu (born Naim
Suleimanov (Bulgarian: Наим
Сюлейманов) on January 23,
1967) is a Turkish World and
Olympic Champion in weightlifting.
Nicknamed “The Pocket Hercules”,
he became the strongest man ever,
pound-for-pound, by lifting 3.16
times of his body weight in 1988
Summer Olympics (190 kg in clean
and jerk). He won three Olympic,
seven world Championships and
six European titles and set 46
world records.

6. Halil MUTLU
Halil Mutlu (born Halil Aliev (Bulgarian:
Халил Алиев) on July 14, 1973 in
Postnik, Bulgaria) is a
professional Turkish weightlifter with several
World and Olympic championships. Mutlu is
one of the four weightlifters achieving three
consecutive gold medals at the Olympic
Games. His weightlifting career includes five
World championships, nine European
championships and more than 20 world
records at 52 kg (115 lb), 54 kg (119 lb) and
56 kg (123 lb) combined.
World junior champion (1993),
Five-time world champion (,
Nine-time European champion
25 gold medals in total at European
Championships,
Only fourth weightlifter to win three
Olympic gold medals

7. Elvan ABEYLEGESSE
Elvan Abeylegesse, (also formerly: Hewan
Abeye ( Amharic) and Elvan Can (Turkish);
born September 11, 1982) is an Ethiopian-
born Turkish middle and long distance track
and field athlete who runs in the disciplines
of 1500 m, 3000 m and 5000 m, but
also 10000 m, 2 miles and cross country. She
is the former world-record holder for 5000
m, at 14:24.68.
At the 2010 European Athletics
Championships, Abeylegesse won gold in
the 10,000 m

8. Semih SAYGINER
Semih Saygıner (born November 12,
1964, in Adapazarı, Turkey) nicknamed
Mr. Magic and the Turkish Prince, is
a Turkish professional carom billiards player.
He won the 1999 CEB European Three-
cushion Championship by defeating Dion
Nelin of Denmark.
In 2003, Saygıner won the UMB World
Three-cushion Championship by disposing
of Filipos Kasidokostas of Greece. He's the
only Turk ever to win it. That same year, he
won the last World Three-cushion
Championship organized by the BWA by
besting Dick Jaspers.

9. Sinan Şamil SAM
Sinan Şamil Sam (born June 23, 1974)
is a Turkish heavyweight professional
boxer. As a professional boxer, Sam
won the EBU,World Boxing Council,
and WBC Mediterranean titles in the
heavyweight division.
9 times Turkish Championship
1992 Junior World Champion (Light
Heavyweight)
1993 2nd place (Light Heavyweight) at
the European Championships
1995 3rd place (Heavyweight) at
the World Championships
1998 3rd place (Super Heavyweight) at
the European Championships
1999 won the World Championships

10. Arda TURAN
Arda Turan (born 30 January
1987) is a Turkish footballer who
plays for Spanish club Atlético
Madrid as an attacking
midfielder and is the captain of
the Turkish national team.
Arda was ranked 38th in The 100
best footballers in the
world by The Guardian in 2014.
On 25 November 2014, Turan was
nominated for the UEFA Team of
the Year for 2014, among 40
other players.