Mete Gazoz

Mete Gazoz, born on 8 June 1999 in Istanbul, is a Turkish recurve archer who took up the sport in 2010 and made his international debut in 2013. He won the men's individual gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, defeating Italy's Mauro Nespoli in the final and giving Turkey its first Olympic medal in archery, then added a bronze in the men's team event at the 2024 Paris Games. At the 2023 World Archery Championships in Berlin he won the individual recurve title, the first Turkish recurve gold at the event. Before that he collected junior and youth medals at world championships, a Mediterranean Games gold in 2018 and a place at the 2014 Youth Olympics and the 2016 Rio Olympics.