Nazlı Çağla Dönertaş (born March 1, 1991) is a Turkish yacht racer. The tall athlete at is a student of architecture at the

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in Istanbul.

Biography

Dönertaş was born on March 1, 1991, in

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, Turkey. She began with sailing sport 2004 in

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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,

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

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

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. 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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, Bulgaria. 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

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, Netherlands. She is qualified to participate at the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012, were an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

. 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

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, where she finished in 15th.

Achievements

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Donertas, Cagla 1991 births Living people Turkish sportswomen Turkish female sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for Turkey Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Laser Radial Fenerbahçe sailors Sailors (sport) 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