Sport in Turkey
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Other popular mainstream sports include
Women's volleyball teams, namely
Turkish athletes recently achieved success in European level;
The traditional Turkish national sport has been the
Football
Turkey has risen to prominence in a number of
Basketball
At a club level, the most successful team has been
Volleyball
Volleyball, especially women's volleyball, is a popular sport in Turkey. The Turkey women's national volleyball team secured 6th place at the FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship in 2010 in Japan, and won a bronze medal at the Women's European Volleyball Championship in 2011 in Serbia. Turkey's top women's volleyball team is VakıfBank, which went undefeated to win three championships at the FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship in 2013, 2017, and 2018. The same team won five championships (again going undefeated each time) in the CEV Women's Champions League in 2011, 2013, 2017, 2018, and 2022. They took gold medals at both the Challenge Cup and the Women's Top Volley International in the 2007–08 season. Another prominent Turkish women's volleyball club is Fenerbahçe, which won the FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship with an undefeated record in 2010,[10] took the silver medal in the CEV Women's Champions League in the 2009–10 season, and finished in third place during the 2010–11 season.
Turkey featured a men's national team in beach volleyball that competed at the 2018–2020 CEV Beach Volleyball Continental Cup.[11]
Handball
Yeliz Özel of Ankara is a Turkish handballer who is considered one of the best playmakers of her time.
Athletics
Beach handball
2010 Beach Handball World Championships were held between June 23–27 in Antalya. The Turkish national team won twice the silver medal at the World Championships in 2004 and 2006, and the bronze medal in 2010. The Turkish women's national team also won the silver medal at the 2004 World Championships.
Fencing
Turkey hosted the 2009 World Fencing Championships held from September 30 to October 8 in Antalya.
Fishing
Flying
Plane gliding, hang gliding, parachuting, paragliding and single engine flights are catered for as well as services that provide instruction courses. Best areas are Fethiye, Eskişehir, Pamukkale, and Istanbul.
Motorsports
The
Kenan Sofuoğlu became world champion in Supersport three times in 2007, 2010, and 2012.
Rafting
Turkey's rivers provide perfect conditions for canoeing and rafting, for both beginners and experienced. Some of the best rivers for rafting are
.Rugby league
Rugby League is a relatively new sport in Turkey, so far five clubs make up the rugby league in Turkey, observer status within the
Rugby union
Sailing and boat trips
Turkey has four bordering seas; the
Taekwondo
Weightlifting
Weightlifting has been another successful sport for Turkey, regularly relied upon to provide gold medals in the Olympics. Its most famous weightlifters, Naim Süleymanoğlu and Halil Mutlu, are only two of four weightlifters in the world to have won three gold medals in three Olympics, and among women Nurcan Taylan broke one world record.
Windsurfing
The bays around Çeşme, Alaçatı, Bodrum, and Datça peninsulas as well as Antalya have ideal wind conditions for windsurfing. Famous windsurfer Çağla Kubat is also from Turkey.
Wrestling
See also
References
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- ^ EuroChallenge 2012 Final Four
- ^ "Fenerbahce Istanbul joins list of EuroLeague champions!". Euroleague.net. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
- ^ "Facts of the Champions: Anadolu Efes Istanbul". Welcome to EUROLEAGUE BASKETBALL. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
- ^ "Fenerbahce crowned Women's Club World champions". www.fivb.org. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
- ^ Burak Sansal (2006). "Oiled Wrestling". allaboutturkey.com. Retrieved 13 December 2006.
- ^ Kırkpınar Oiled Wrestling Tournament: History
- ^ FILA Wrestling Database
- ^ "Fenerbahce crowned Women's Club World champions". www.fivb.org. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
- FIVB. 22 June 2021. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
- ^ "Turkey win their first ever gold at World Championship". Sky Sports. 11 August 2017.
- ^ WRC Rally of Turkey: Brief event history Archived 2008-05-31 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ BBC Sport: Formula 1 circuit guide: Istanbul, Turkey
- Rugby League European Federation. 10 June 2016. Archived from the originalon 9 August 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2023.