Beste Kaynakçı (born 30 April 1994) is a Turkish
yacht racer. She qualified to participate at the
Sailing at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Sailing competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo took place from 25 July to 4 August 2021 at the Enoshima Yacht Harbor in Enoshima. The venue was also used for the 1964 Olympic Games although significantly regenerated, the IOC now en ...
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Beste Kaynakçı was born in
Konak, İzmir
Konak is a district of İzmir Province in Turkey. It is the most densely populated of the eleven main urban districts of İzmir, and has historically acted as the administrative and economic core of the city. Situated in an area that roughly corres ...
on 30 April 1994. She began in with sailing sport in 2007. She competed in the
Optimist,
420 Dinghy,
and
Four-Seventy classes, and won several titles in national and international competitions.
She is a member of the ARM Urla Sail Club in
Urla, İzmir
Urla (, Vourlá) is a town and the center of the district of the same name in İzmir Province, in Turkey. The district center is located in the middle of the isthmus of a small peninsula which protrudes northwards in the Gulf of İzmir, but its ...
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She qualified to compete at the
2020 Summer Olympics
The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July.
Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...
in the
women's two-person dinghy – 470 class event with her teammate
Okyanus Arıkan. Turkey will participate for the first time in that event at the Olympics.
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1994 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Konak
Sportspeople from İzmir
Turkish female sailors (sport)
Sailors at the 2020 Summer Olympics – 470
Olympic sailors for Turkey
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