World Sailing Open Team Racing World Championships

The World Sailing Open Team Racing World Championships (formerly ISAF Team Racing World Championships) 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 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.

In 2024 World Sailing announced that the Team Racing World Championship would return with a new 2v2 format in keelboats. The 2025 event took 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 will 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	Location	Hosted by	Winning Nation	Youth Winners	Boat Used
1995	West Kirby, UK [4]	West Kirby Sailing Club	GBR 1 Steve Tylecote Mel Hughes Greg Eaton Tasha Hughes Roger Morris Damian Boreham [4]	N/A	Firefly
1998	Miami, USA	Strictly Sail Miami	USA 2 Mark Mendelblatt Nick Trotman Josh Adams Brett Davis Victoria Wadsworth Blair Largay	N/A	Vanguard 15
1999	Dún Laoghaire, Ireland	Royal St. George Yacht Club	NZL Andrew Murdoch Rebecca Murdoch Hamish Murdoch Andrew Ardern Karen Lambert Alesha Thorpe [5] [6]	N/A	Firefly [7]
2001	Lake Brno, Brno, CZE	Lodni Sporty Brno Yacht Club	NZL 1 Andrew Murdoch Karen Lambert Hamish Murdoch Josh Galbraith Andrew Arden Jeffery Clark [8]	N/A	420
2003	Auckland, NZL	No host club. Organised by NZTRA and sailed out of the America's Cup Village	USA 2 Timothy Fallon Karen Renzulli Graeme Woodworth Leigh Woodworth Ery Largay Brian Doyle [9] [10]	N/A	420
2005 [11]	Newport, Rhode Island, USA	New York Yacht Club	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
2007	Gandia, Spain	Real Club Náutico de Gandia	USA 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 [12] [13]	Perth, Australia	Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club  South of Perth Yacht Club	USA 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 [14]	Schull, Ireland	Fastnet Marine and Outdoor Education Centre	GBR Andrew Cornah Ben Field Dom Johnson Hamish Walker Tom Foster Deborah Steele	GBR Cameron Douglas Ben Robinson Sophie Shepherd Sarah Lombard Charlie Fitzgerald Freddy Williams	TR 3.6
2015 [15]	Rutland, UK	Rutland Sailing Club	USA 1 Michael Menninger Justin Law Adrienne Kamiler Haley Kirk Lucy Wallace Tyler Sinks [16]	USA Eli Burnes Henry Burnes Charlie Hibben Paige Dunleavy Ginny Alex Peter Barron [16]	Firefly
2025 [17]	Newport, Rhode Island, USA	New York Yacht Club	USA Will Bailey Doug Sabin Allison Ferraris Langdon Mitchell Tim Wadlow Forbes Barber Christina Pandapas Peter Fleming	N/A	Sonar

Other

The 420, International 14 and Optimist classes hold their own team racing world championships.

References and External Links

1. ISAF Website - Team Racing World Championships home page
2. "World Sailing Team Racing World Championship Results". World Sailing. Archived from the original on 8 January 2022. Retrieved 30 August 2025.
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. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/yachting-murdochs-first-family-of-sails/MGSB7XUGQYMXA5Q3NTE5FLG4HM/
6. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/yachting-world-title-all-in-the-family/K4DXAA266IDNLWAXYWBHU7UVNU/
7. "Notice of Race - Indigo ISAF World Team Racing Championship 1999". Royal St George Yacht Club. Archived from the original on 8 December 2000. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
8. "Regatta Information".
9. http://www.2003worldteamracing.freeservers.com/Teams/usa2.htm
10. https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/newsletter-archive/archived_Detail0ac8.html
11. Jan Harley (2 October 2005). "2005 Grey Goose ISAF Team Racing Worlds - Overall".
12. "ISAF Team Racing World Championship 2009".
13. "Scuttlebutt 2009 Team Racing Worlds".
14. "ISAF Team Racing World Championship 2011".
15. "Rutlandteamracing". Archived from the original on 9 May 2019. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
16. https://events2.ksail.co.uk/2015/ISAFTeamRacingWorlds/
17. "2025 Team Racing World Championship". nyyc.org. Retrieved 5 June 2025.