Okyanus Arıkan

Okyanus Arıkan
Personal information
Born (2004-07-08) 8 July 2004 (age 20)
İzmir, Turkey
Sport
CountryTurkey
SportSailing
EventFour-Seventy
ClubARM Urla Sail Club

Okyanus Arıkan (born 8 July 2004) is a Turkish yacht racer. She qualified to participate at the Sailing at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[1][2]

Okyanus Arıkan was born in İzmir on 8 July 2004.[2] She began with sailing sport at the age of six. Already at age of ten, she was admitted to the Turkey national sail team, and became so her country's youngest national sportsperson. She won several competitions at national and international level.[1] She competed in the Optimist class before she transferred to the Four-Seventy class.[1][3] She is a member of the ARM Urla Sail Club in Urla, İzmir.[1][2] She is also an orange belt in kickboxing.

She qualified to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the women's two-person dinghy – 470 class event with her teammate Beste Kaynakçı. Turkey participated for the first time in that event at the Olympics.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Beste Kaynakçı-Okyanus Arıkan ikilisinden tarihi başarı". Fanatik (in Turkish). 12 March 2021. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "Sporcu listesi" (PDF) (in Turkish). Türkiye Yelken Federasyonu. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
  3. ^ "TYF Optimist Türkiye Şampiyonası" (PDF) (in Turkish). Türkiye Yelken Federasyonu. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
  4. ^ "Türkiye, 470 Kadınlar sınıfında ilk defa Olimpiyat Oyunları'nda". Habertürk (in Turkish). 12 March 2021. Retrieved 1 April 2021.


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