Ali Enver Adakan

Ali Enver Adakan (born 19 July 1977) is a retired Turkish dinghy sailor, who specialized in Finn class.

[1] He represented Turkey in two editions of the Olympic Games (2000 and 2004), and has been training for the Istanbul Sailing Club (Turkish: İstanbul Yelken Kulübü) during his sporting career.

Adakan made his official debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he delivered an effortless eighth-place effort in the Finn class with a remarkable grade of 66, finishing off the podium by 19 points.

[2][3] At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Adakan qualified for his second Turkish team in the men's Finn class by finishing eleventh and receiving a berth from the ISAF World Championships in Cadiz, Spain.

[5][6][7] He mounted a second highest placement on the first leg of the series, but came up short for the podium with a sixteenth-place finish on 124 points.