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Yüksek tempodan dolayı atletler bitiş çizgisine biri yirmi geçe ulaştı.

Yüksek tempodan dolayı atletler bitiş çizgisine biri yirmi geçe ulaştı.
Because of the high pace, the athletes reached the finish line at twenty past one.
From Lesson 266:Stating when things happen (geçe / kala)·Turkish

Questions & Answers about Yüksek tempodan dolayı atletler bitiş çizgisine biri yirmi geçe ulaştı.

How do we form "at twenty past one" in biri yirmi geçe?
To say that an event happens "at [minute] past [hour]", Turkish uses this formula: Hour + Accusative case, then Minute + geçe. Here, the hour is bir (one). We add the accusative -i to get biri. Then we state the minute yirmi (twenty) and add geçe.
Doesn't "past" usually translate to geçiyor? Why do we use geçe here?
You use geçiyor when you are simply stating the current time, like "It is twenty past one" (Saat biri yirmi geçiyor). However, when you are stating the time an action occurred (like reaching the finish line), you must swap out geçiyor for geçe.
Why does the sentence use tempodan dolayı instead of just tempo dolayı?
The word dolayı is a postposition meaning "because of" or "due to." It always requires the noun right before it to be in the ablative case (-dan / -den). Therefore, tempo (pace) must become tempodan.
What are the suffixes doing at the end of bitiş çizgisine?
First, this is a noun compound: bitiş (finish) + çizgi (line) + -si (the compound marker). Then, the verb ulaşmak (to reach) requires the dative case (-e / -a) for the destination. Whenever we add a case ending directly after a compound marker, we must insert the buffer letter -n-, which gives us çizgisine.

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