Mete Gazoz is a recurve archer from Turkey who represented his country at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Gazoz is the only archer from Turkey – and the youngest – to qualify to compete in the finals of the World Championship, the European Championship and the Olympic Games. Gazoz has represented his country at an international level since 2013, and won the gold medal at the 2018 Mediterranean Games held in Tarragona, Spain in the individuals 70m category. With his sights set on the Tokyo Olympic Games, Gazoz was ranked 5th in the World seniors category at the start of 2020.
Gazoz, from Istanbul, first got involved professionally with archery in 2010. He began competing in the juniors category of the Turkish national team when he was 14 years old, progressing to the seniors category in a short space of time. Gazoz became the first archer from Turkey to receive a remarkable degree in the European Championship, and in 2013 he took part in the Recurve Junior Men Team event, winning the silver medal at the World Archery Youth Championships in Wuxi, China.
A year later he took part in the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China, followed by the World Archery Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2015. The same year he won the silver medal at the European Youth Cup Circuit 2015 in Klagenfurt, Austria in the Recurve Cadet Men’s event, and Gazoz then picked up silver at the 2016 World Indoor Archery Championships in his native Turkey. Gazoz attended his first Olympics in 2016, and since then has become a force to be reckoned with in the world of archery, cementing his place in the top 5 archers in the world.
