BODRUM, Turkey — The gifts started pouring in for Asli Cakir Alptekin almost as soon as she sprinted across the finish line at London’s Olympic Stadium on Aug. 10, becoming Turkey’s first female track and field gold medalist.

There were sponsorship offers from Garanti Bank, Turkey’s largest national bank, and mobile carrier Turkcell. (She and other members of the Turkish delegation already had pre-Olympic sponsorships from Nike.)

There were apartments from the construction giant Agaoglu and from Uskudar, the Istanbul club where she trains. There was the $55,000 that she and Gamze Bulut, the silver medalist in the same 1,500-meter race, were given by Eti, a candy company in Turkey that is the equivalent of Nestle.

But those gifts and sponsorships were small compared with the $1 million worth of gold bars that Cakir Alptekin, 27, received from the delighted Turkish government (with $66,000 for Bulut).