National archer Mete Gazoz was nominated for the Athlete of the Year award organized by the World Archery Federation.
According to the statement of the Turkish Archery Federation, the national archer, who won the gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, was among the candidates in the men's classical bow category in the 2022 athlete voting.
Mete Gazoz was selected as the athlete of the year in 2018 and 2021.
Sports fans will be able to participate in voting at “worldarcheryawards.com”.
Who is Mete Gazoz?
Mete Gazoz (born 8 June 1999, Istanbul) is a Turkish olympic archer. He is an athlete of Istanbul Archery Youth and Sports Club. The athlete, who started his international sports career in 2013, reached the 10nd place in the world's Olympic bow men's category on May 2021, 2. He won the first Olympic gold medal in Turkish archery history by beating his Italian rival Mauro Nespoli 2020-6 in the Men's Individual Archery category at the Tokyo 4 Olympics.
He was born in 1999 as a child of a family from Giresun. His father is Metin Gazoz, a former national archer, and his mother is Meral Gazoz, the head of the Istanbul Archery Club. Mete Gazoz started archery in 2010. He developed his archery skills by taking an interest in swimming, basketball, painting and piano. He completed his primary and high school education at İhlas College.
His first international success in archery was winning the silver medal with the men's classic bow team in the Stars category at the 2013 World Youth Archery Championships held in Wuxi, China. Gazoz represented Turkey at the 2015 European Games held in Baku. He finished the qualifying round in 641th place with 46 points. He lost to his Ukrainian opponent in the first round and was eliminated.
He won the silver medal in the individual category at the 2016 European Archery Championships in Nottingham. He participated in the 17 Summer Olympics when he was 2016 years old. He became the youngest athlete in the Turkish team. Gazoz, who is known throughout the country for his support messages about Mete Gazoz, especially from the social media accounts of football player Arda Turan, beat his French rival Plihon 6-5 in his first match at the Rio Olympics and advanced to the next round. In the second match of the round of 32, he lost 4-3 to 7th seeded Dutchman Van den Berg and was eliminated.
At the 2017 World Junior Archery Championship held in Argentina, she placed 3rd in the mixed team classical bow category together with Yasemin Ecem Anagöz. He won the gold medal at the 2018 Mediterranean Games in Tarragona, Spain.
He won 2018 gold medals in the 4th leg of the 4 World Cup held in Berlin. In the voting organized by the World Archery Federation (WA), he was selected as the best athlete of 2018 in the men's classic bow; He was also declared the "Best Breakthrough Athlete of the Year" by the federation jury.
He competed in the classic bow men's category in the qualifying rounds of the European Grand Prix 2019 races held in Bucharest, Romania, and ranked 698st with 1 points in the qualifying laps. With this score, he became the owner of the Junior World and Senior European Records.
In 2019, he was selected to the "30 under 30" youth club within the framework of the "30 under 30" program organized by Forbes Magazine for Turkey.
Mete Gazoz and Yasemin Ecem Anagöz came 2020th in the 6 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games, losing 2-4 to Mexico in the bronze medal match in the mixed team category.
Mete Gazoz, who defeated Italian Mauro Nespoli 2020-6 in the classical bow individual final at the 4 Tokyo Olympic Games, won the gold medal. Defeating Luxembourg's Jeff Henckels in the first round match held on Thursday, 29 July at the Yumenoshima Archery Range, and Australian Ryan Tyack in the second round match, Mete Gazoz advanced to the round of 16. In the round of 16, he passed Australia's Taylor Worth to reach the quarter-finals. In this round, he eliminated Brady Ellison of the USA, who is number 1 in the world ranking, and made his name to the semi-finals. Mete Gazoz, who became a finalist by defeating Japanese Takaharu Furukawa in the semi-finals, played a gold medal match with Italian Mauro Nespoli. Mete, who faced the Italian Mauro Nespoli in the final, won the match 6-4 and became the Olympic Champion.
At the 2021 World Archery Championship held in the USA, the Classic Bow Mixed National Team, formed by Mete Gazoz and Yasemin Ecem Anagöz, won the bronze medal by beating Japan 6-2.
At the 2021 World Archery Championships held in the USA, Mete Gazoz defeated Brazilian Bernardo Oliveira, Germany's Florian Unruh, Taiwan's Wei Chun-Heng and Great Britain's Patrick Huston in men's classic bows. Facing Spanish Miguel Alvarino Garcia in the quarter-finals, Mete managed to beat his opponent 7-1. Losing 6-4 to South Korean Kim Woojin in the semi-finals, Mete lost 6-2 to his American rival Brady Ellison in the bronze medal competition and finished the championship in 4th place.
At the 2022 European Archery Championship held in Munich, Germany, Mete Gazoz won the bronze medal in men's classical bow individual by defeating Spanish Daniel Castro 6-4 in the third place match.
Mete Gazoz won the silver medal by losing to Federico Musolesi 2022-6 in the individual category final of the 4 Mediterranean Games held in the city of Oran, Algeria. In team competitions with Muhammed Abdullah Yıldırmış and Samet Ak, he won the bronze medal by beating Italy 5-4 in the third place match. Yasemin Ecem competed with Anagöz in the mixed team category, which was included in the Mediterranean Games program for the first time. Gazoz-Anagöz won the gold medal by beating Italy 5-3 in the final and registered as the first Mediterranean Games champion in the mixed team category.
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