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The competitions involving Türkiye’s athletes at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics have wrapped up, with the team leaving Italy without a medal or podium placing.
Türkiye competed with eight athletes across four disciplines: ski jumping, short track speed skating, cross-country skiing, and alpine skiing.
Türkiye was represented by Fatih Arda Ipcioglu and Muhammed Ali Bedir in ski jumping, Denis Ors and Furkan Akar in short track speed skating, Irem Dursun and Abdullah Yilmaz in cross-country skiing, and Ada Hasirci and Thomas Kaan Onol Lang in alpine skiing.
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Denis Ors, competing at the Olympics for the first time, moved through the men’s 500 meters in short track speed skating after finishing his qualifying run in 44.651 seconds, advancing as one of the best third-place skaters. Short track is a format where multiple skaters race at once on an indoor oval, and athletes must qualify through heats to reach later rounds. In the quarterfinal, Ors placed fifth in his five-skater race with a time of 41.532 seconds and was eliminated.
Furkan Akar, in his second Olympic appearance, did not advance from the men’s 500-meter heats. He fell in the final meters after contact with a competitor, and he was also penalized for blocking a passing attempt and for a lane violation, which left him unable to finish the race. Akar, who placed sixth in the 1,000-meter final at Beijing 2022, did not reach the quarterfinal stage in his Milano Cortina 2026 event.
In ski jumping, Ipcioglu and Bedir were eliminated in the opening round across three events. They did not place high enough to reach the final-jump cutoffs, which required a top-30 finish in the normal hill and large hill events and a top-12 finish in the super team event.
Ipcioglu, competing in his third Olympics, placed 44th in the men’s normal hill with 111.1 points and 37th in the men’s large hill with 115 points. Bedir, making his Olympic debut, finished 48th in both events, recording 93.1 points in one and 80.3 points in the other. In the super team event, the Turkish pair placed 15th among 17 countries with 202.7 points.
In cross-country skiing, where athletes race on snow over set distances using skis and poles, Abdullah Yilmaz and Irem Dursun both made their Olympic debuts.
Yilmaz placed 80th out of 94 competitors in the men’s sprint classic with a time of 3:40.34, then finished 100th out of 113 skiers in the men’s 10 km freestyle in 27:08.3. Dursun placed 103rd in the women’s 10 km freestyle, finishing in 31:26.8 among 111 athletes.
In alpine skiing, which includes downhill-style races on marked courses, Ada Hasirci and Thomas Kaan Onol Lang also competed at the Olympics for the first time.
Onol Lang completed the men’s giant slalom with runs of 1:25.67 and 1:18.83, totaling 2:44.50, and placed 49th among 81 skiers.
He did not finish the men’s slalom. Hasirci, racing in the women’s slalom, also did not finish and exited the Games.
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