Alinghi, or Alinghi Red Bull Racing because of the sports marketing branding by Red Bull, is the syndicate set up by Ernesto Bertarelli, racing under the colors of the Société Nautique de Genève, to challenge for the America's Cup, as well as other competitions. Bertarelli had raced several smaller yachts named Alinghi previously, but 2003 was his first attempt at the America's Cup. Alinghi challenged for and won the 2003 America's Cup in Auckland New Zealand and successfully defended it at the 2007 America's Cup in Valencia, Spain. Alinghi lost the America's Cup to the Golden Gate Yacht Club and their team BMW Oracle Racing in a Deed of Gift match in Valencia, Spain in February 2010.
Paul Bert Elvstrøm was a Danish yachtsman. He won four Olympic gold medals and twenty world titles in a range of classes including Snipe, Soling, Star, Flying Dutchman, Finn, 505, and 5.5 Metre. For his achievements, Elvstrøm was chosen as "Danish Sportsman of the Century."
World Sailing (WS) is the world governing body for the sport of sailing recognized by the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).
Bruce Robert William Kirby, was a Canadian-born sailboat designer, dinghy and offshore racer and journalist. His designs spanned in size from the single-handed Laser dinghy to the 12-meter class Louis Vuitton Cup yacht, Canada One. He continued his design work in his American company, Bruce Kirby Marine.
The President's Cup Regatta was an annual yacht race in the Philippines that attracted competitors from all over the world. It was one of the highly anticipated sports tourism events in the Philippines. The race, organized by the Manila Yacht Club, took place between 1997 and 2009. The race was replaced by the Commodore´s Cup, organized by Subic Bay Sailing Club. In 2019, the Commodore´s Cup was replaced by the Chairman´s Cup regatta.
Hans-Peter Steinacher is an Austrian sailor and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in the Tornado class with Roman Hagara at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. They won the gold medal again at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Shahar Tzuberi is an Israeli windsurfer and Olympic bronze medalist, surfing in the "Neil Pryde" RS:X discipline. He is a nephew of Gad Tsobari, the 1972 Olympic wrestler who escaped from Arab terrorists during the Munich massacre. He is a three-time Olympian.
Paul Martin Goodison MBE is an English Olympic gold medal-winning sailor.
Terence McLaughlin is a Canadian sailor and Olympics silver medallist.
The Lechner A-390 was an Olympic Class windsurf board for the 1992 Olympics. It was only raced at the Games that year.
RS:X is a windsurfing class selected by the ISAF to replace the Mistral One Design Class for the 2008 Summer Olympics. The discipline has similarities to Formula Windsurfing - mainly in that the equipment used was designed to allow windsurfing in low and moderate wind conditions with good performance.
John Charles Millen is a Canadian sailor.
Windsurfing has been one of the Olympic sailing events at the Summer Olympics since 1984 for men and 1992 for women. All sailors use the same One Design boards, daggerboards, fins and sails. The equipment is chosen to allow racing in a wide range of sailing conditions, as during the Olympic Games events must take place as scheduled.
Nacra Sailing is a Dutch company that manufactures a line of small catamaran sailboats, or beachcats. NACRA was founded in 1975 to tap into the market created by Hobie Alter the founder of Hobie Cat, and several other companies offering small fiberglass catamarans designed to be sailed off the beach by a crew of one or two.
Andrew Lewis is a Trinidadian sailor. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Men's Laser class. He also competed in the same class at the 2011 Pan American Games, and the 2015 Pan American Games, the 2016 Summer Olympics, and the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Eivind Melleby is a Norwegian sailor.
Isabella Bertold is a Canadian sailor and cyclist, who competes in the Laser radial class in sailing, and who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team InstaFund Racing in cycling. She has been ranked in the top 10 of the world in sailing. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Comanche is a 100 ft maxi yacht. She was designed in France by VPLP and Guillaume Verdier and built in the United States by Hodgdon Yachts for Dr. James H. Clark.
Sailing competitions at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru took place between August 3 and 10, 2019 at the Yacht Club Peruano in the city of Paracas.
Neil Pryde is a Hong Kong sailor and businessman. He competed in the Flying Dutchman event at the 1968 Summer Olympics. He subsequently established a company named Neil Pryde, and he served as chairman of it until 1 January 2015.
