Mete Gazoz

Mete Gazoz
Personal information
Born (1999-06-08) 8 June 1999
Height 180 cm (71 in)
Weight 60 kg (130 lb)
Sport
Country  Turkey
Sport Archery
Event(s) recurve
Updated on 6 March 2016.

Mete Gazoz (born 8 June 1999) is a male Turkish recurve archer. He represented Turkey at 2016 Rio Olympics.

Private life

Mete Gazoz was born on the 8th of June, 1999. Currently, he is a high school student at İhlas Kolej in Bahçelievler, Istanbul.[1][2]

Sports career

Gazoz began with Archery in 2010. The right-handed archer made his international debut in 2013.[1]

He won the silver medal in the Recurve Junior Men Team event at the 2013 World Archery Youth Championships in Wuxi, China. He participated in the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China,[3] in the 2015 European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan,[4] and in the 2015 World Archery Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark.[5] Gazoz won the silver medal in the Recurve Cadet Men event at the European Youth Cup Circuit 2015 in Klagenfurt, Austria,[6] and another silver medal in the Recurve Junior Men Team event at the 2016 World Indoor Archery Championships in Ankara, Turkey.[7]

Gazoz won his first match on the 8th of August, 2016 in the 2016 Rio Olympics at 1/32 tour against the French Pierre Plihon, with a score of 6-5. At his second match, 1/16 tour, he lost the game 3-7 against the Dutch Sjef Van den Berg.

References

  1. 1 2 "Mete Gazoz". International Archery. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
  2. "İhlas Koleji öğrencisi Mete Gazoz'dan büyük başarı!". İhlas News Agency (in Turkish). 2015-05-25. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
  3. "2014 Nanjing Yaz Gençlik Olimpiyat Oyunları". Türkiye Milli Olimpiyat Komitesi. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
  4. "2015 Bakü Avrupa Oyunları". Türkiye Milli Olimpiyat Komitesi. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
  5. "2015 World Archery Championships: Entries by country" (PDF). ianseo.net. pp. 7–18. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  6. "EYC Klagenfurt 2015 – Final Results". International Archery. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
  7. "World Archery Indoor Championships – 2016 Ankara, Turkey – Cpmplete Book" (PDF). World Archery. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
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