Okyanus Arıkan (born 8 July 2004) 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 ...

. Okyanus Arıkan was born in

İzmir İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara and the second largest urban agglo ...

on 8 July 2004. 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. She competed in the Optimist class before she transferred to the Four-Seventy class. 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 u ...

. She is also an orange belt in

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. She qualified to compete at the

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in the women's two-person dinghy – 470 class event with her teammate

Beste Kaynakçı Beste Kaynakçı (born 30 April 1994) is a Turkish yacht racer. She qualified to participate at the Sailing at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Beste Kaynakçı was born in Konak, İzmir on 30 April 1994. She began in with sailing sport in 2007. She ...

. Turkey participated for the first time in that event at the Olympics.

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* * * * 2004 births Sportspeople from İzmir Turkish female sailors (sport) Living people Sailors at the 2020 Summer Olympics – 470 Olympic sailors for Turkey {{Turkey-yachtracing-bio-stub