ISAF Team Racing World Championship

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The World Sailing (formerly ISAF) Team Racing World Championship is a team racing event [1] previously held every two years by the International Sailing Federation (ISAF). The first Team Racing World Championships were held in West Kirby, Great Britain in 1995. Great Britain won and so became the first nation to record its name on the ISAF Team Racing World Trophy, donated to ISAF by the West Kirby Sailing Club. A youth Championship (under 21) began running in parallel with the main event in 2005. Summary information on the first three events is tabled below - full information will be found on the Team Racing Championships results page of the ISAF website. [2] The appearance of West Kirby as the first championship host club reflects the club's pivotal role in promoting team racing – fostered by the activities of the Oxford & Cambridge Sailing Society.

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In 2024 World Sailing announced that the Team Racing World Championship would return with a new 2v2 format in keelboats. The 2025 event would take place 28 May to 1 June at the New York Yacht Club in Newport, RI, United States, supported by US Sailing. While the 2026 event would be held in August at the Gamla Stan’s Yacht Sällskap, Stockholm, Sweden, and supported by the City of Stockholm and the Swedish Sailing Federation. [3]

Results

Year  LocationWinning Nation  Youth WinnersBoat Used
1995West Kirby, Great Britain
Flag placeholder.svg West Kirby Sailing Club [4]
Great BritainN/AFirefly
1998Miami, USAUSA 2
Mark Mendelblatt
Nick Trotman
Josh Adams
Brett Davis
Victoria Wadsworth,
Blair Largay
N/A Vanguard 15
1999Dún Laoghaire, IrelandNew ZealandN/A
2001Lake Brno, CZENew Zealand
Andrew Murdoch,
Karen Lambert,
Hamish Murdoch,
Josh Galbraith,
Andrew Arden,
Jeffery Clark [5]
N/A 420
2003Auckland, NZLUSA 2
Timothy FALLON,
Karen Renzulli,
Graeme Woodworth,
Leigh Woodworth,
Ery Largay
N/A 420
2005 [6] Newport, Rhode Island, USA
Burgee of the New York Yacht Club.svg  New York Yacht Club, Newport
USA 1
Timothy Fallon,
Karen Renzulli,
Mark Ivey
Matt Lindblad,
Tim Wadlow,
Ery Largay
USA 1
Colin Merrick,
Amanda Callahan,
Patrick Hogan,
Carlos Lebz,
Pete Levesque,
Liz Hall
Vanguard 15
2007Gandia, SpainUSA 1
Clay Bischoff,
Lisa Keith,
Peter Levesque,
Elizabeth Hall,
Colin Merrick,
Amanda Callahan
GBR 3
Elizabeth Stanley,
Ian Robertson,
James Goss,
Oliver Mulcahy,
Elliott Parsons,
Stephen Videlo
420
2009 [7] [8] Perth, Australia
Flag placeholder.svg New Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club and
Flag placeholder.svg New South of Perth Yacht Club
USA
Burgee of the New York Yacht Club.svg  New York Yacht Club
Clay Bischoff
Lisa Keith
Colin Merrick
Amanda Callahan
Peter Levesque
Liz Hall
AUS
Jasper Warren
Jamie Turner
David Gilmour
Aimee Negri
Luke Parkinson
Patrick Vos
Pacer
2011 [9] Schull, IrelandGBR
Andrew Cornah,
Ben Field
Dom Johnson,
Hamish Walke
Tom Foster
Deborah Steele
GBR
Cameron Douglas,
Ben Robinson,
Sophie Shepherd,
Sarah Lombard,
Charlie Fitzgerald,
Freddy Williams
TR 3.6
2015 [10] Rutland, Great Britain
Flag placeholder.svg Rutland Sailing Club
United StatesUnited States Firefly
2025 [11] Newport, Rhode Island, USA
Burgee of the New York Yacht Club.svg  New York Yacht Club, Newport
USA
Will Bailey
Doug Sabin,
Allison Ferraris,
Langdon Mitchell,
Tim Wadlow,
Forbes Barber,
Christina Pandapas,
Peter Fleming
N/A Sonar

Other

420, International 14 and Optimist (dinghy) classes hold also hold (their own) a team racing based World Championships.

  1. ISAF Website - Team Racing World Championships home page
  2. ISAF Website - Team Racing Championships results page
  3. "New format and 2025 and 2026 venues for World Sailing Open Team Racing World Championships announced". World Sailing. Retrieved 6 June 2025.
  4. "First ever Team Racing World Championship 1995 final GBR vs IRL". YouTube . 6 January 2016. Archived from the original on 5 December 2021.
  5. "Regatta Information".
  6. Jan Harley (2 October 2005). "2005 Grey Goose ISAF Team Racing Worlds - Overall".
  7. "ISAF Team Racing World Championship 2009".
  8. "Scuttlebutt 2009 Team Racing Worlds".
  9. "ISAF Team Racing World Championship 2011".
  10. "Rutlandteamracing". Archived from the original on 9 May 2019. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
  11. "2025 Team Racing World Championship". nyyc.org. Retrieved 5 June 2025.