Çağla Kubat (; born 16 November 1978) is a Turkish actress, model,

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and beauty pageant titleholder. She is member of Fenerbahçe sailing & windsurfing team. She is 5 feet 10 (1.80m) tall. She was born in

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. She graduated from Italian High School of Istanbul and

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with a bachelor's degree in

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. She was the first runner-up for the

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2002 beauty pageant and represented Turkey at

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2002. She speaks

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and

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fluently.

Sports

Çağla is also a champion windsurfer, having won the IFCA windsurfing European Slalom Championship in 2005, in

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. In 2006, in her first PWA
Professional Windsurfers Association
event, she placed 6th in IFCA Slalom World Championship. She founded her own windsurfing school "Çağla Kubat Windsurf Academy" in

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. She ranked third in the women's category at the 2012 World Slalom Championship in

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. In 2013, she became champion in the Master Female Slalom category of the IFCA Junior, Youth & Masters Slalom World Championships held in Alaçatı. She took the third rank at the 2013 World Cup. Çağla Kubat's pastimes besides windsurfing are snowboarding, wakeboarding, rollerblading, horseback riding and scuba diving and playing tennis.

Acting

She starred in successful leading female roles in two Turkish TV series to date. These are ''Sağır Oda'' ("The deaf room") in 2006 and ''Kuzey Rüzgarı'' ("The northern wind") with

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and Oktay Kaynarca. She also had a leading role on ''

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'' from 2009 to 2011.

Personal life

Çağla Kubat married American surfer Jimmy Diaz on 21 September 2013.

References

External links

Official website

Çağla Kubat sailor profile (page 6)
a
Professional Windsurfers Association
1978 births 20th-century Turkish actresses Female windsurfers Fenerbahçe windsurfers Istanbul Technical University alumni Liceo Italiano alumni Living people Miss Universe 2002 contestants Sportspeople from İzmir Turkish beauty pageant winners Turkish female models Turkish mechanical engineers Turkish sportswomen Turkish television actresses Turkish windsurfers {{Turkey-sport-bio-stub