Evaluation of results obtained by Turkey in modern olympic games

Wrestling in Olympic Games organized by the IOC (International Olympic Committee) is held in three categories. Grecoroman style was included in the games in 1896, and freestyle was included in the games in 1904. The category of women was only included in the Olympics in 2004. The aim of this study is searching the results obtained by adults national team wrestlers representing Turkey in free, Grecoroman and women categories from the first to the last of the modern Olympic Games. In this research, '' case study model '' is adopted from the screening models and '' document analysis method '' is used as data collection method. The scope of this study includes 179 competitions and medals which are 76 in Grecoroman, 88 in freestyle, 10 in both of free and Grecoroman style, 5 in women's categories. The results of the survey demonstrates that 98 national wrestlers representing Turkey won 39 medals in freestyle which of them are 18 gold,12 silver, 9 bronze and 86 wrestlers representing Turkey won 24 medals in Grecoroman style which of them are 11 gold, 6 silver and 7 bronze. According to the obtained results Turkey is at the 3th place in the ranking of freestyle best countries and at the 6th place in the ranking of the Grecoroman style best countries as of 2016. From the results, it can be seen that the most important factors affecting the country's rankings are related to economic conditions of countries, development levels, effects of global wars, sports politics, trainer and athlete competences.