Nazlı Çağla Dönertaş (born March 1, 1991, in

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, Turkey) is a Turkish yacht racer. The tall athlete at is a student of architecture at the

Okan University Istanbul Okan University is a private university in Istanbul, Turkey. History The university was founded by Okan Culture, Education, and Sports Foundation in 1999 and began its academic life in 2003–2004. Since the 2006–2007 academic year, ...

in Istanbul. She began with sailing sport 2004 in

Marmaris Marmaris () is a port city and tourist resort on the Mediterranean coast, located in Muğla Province, southwest Turkey, along the shoreline of the Turkish Riviera. Although Marmaris is known for its honey, its main source of income is internationa ...

Yacht Club and transferred in 2007 to Fenerbahçe Sailing in Istanbul, where she is coached by Kemal Muslubas and Begüm Güngör. She became national champion in the Women's 470 class at the Turkish Championships held on September 9–13, 2008 off Çayırova,

Kocaeli Province Kocaeli Province ( tr, Kocaeli ili, ) is a province of Turkey and one of only three not to have the same official name as its capital, İzmit, which is thus also sometimes called Kocaeli. The province is the successor of the Ottoman-era Sanjak ...

. She finished first in the Women's Laser Radial class at the 2010 Turkish Sailing Championships held off

Bodrum Bodrum () is a port city in Muğla Province, southwestern Turkey, at the entrance to the Gulf of Gökova. Its population was 35,795 at the 2012 census, with a total of 136,317 inhabitants residing within the district's borders. Known in ancient ...

Muğla Province Muğla Province ( tr, , ) is a province of Turkey, at the country's south-western corner, on the Aegean Sea. Its seat is Muğla, about inland, while some of Turkey's largest holiday resorts, such as Bodrum, Ölüdeniz, Marmaris and Fethiye, ...

. She repeated her success in the Overall and Women's category at the 2011 Turkish Sailing Championships held off

Didim Didim is a small town, popular seaside holiday resort, and district of Aydın Province on the Aegean coast of western Turkey, from the provincial capital city of Aydın. Didim is the site of the antique city of Didyma with its ruined Temple ...

Province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman '' provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...

. Dönertaş obtained her first international success with a bronze medal in the Women's Laser Radial class at the 2010 Athens Eurolymp Week in

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. She became champion in the Women's Laser Radial class at the 2010 Balkan & Open Sailing Championship off

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. At the 2011 Balkan & Open Sailing Championship in the Gulf of Izmit,

, she won again the gold medal in the Laser radial class. In May 2012, she placed 5th at the Delta Lloyd Regatta 2012 off Medemblik,

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. She is qualified to participate at the 2012 Summer Olympics. At the 2012 Olympics, she finished in 29th place. At the 2013 World Laser Radial Championship, she finished in 12th. At the 2016 World Laser Radial Championship, she finished in 8th. That year, she also qualified for the Olympics, where she finished in 15th.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Donertas, Cagla 1991 births Living people Turkish sportswomen Turkish female sailors (sport) Olympic sailors of Turkey Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Laser Radial Fenerbahçe athletes Sportspeople from Istanbul Sailors at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Laser Radial Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Turkey Competitors at the 2013 Mediterranean Games Competitors at the 2018 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in sailing