Claire Leroy | Elodie Bertrand | Marie Riou

Claire sails for the Saint Quay Portieux and began at nine years old. She first competed in Maubisson, her first event won was the Gran Prix de l’Armistice in 1990. In 2011 she took the Gold in the Stena Match Race Cup in Sweden. She was named ISAF’s female World Sailor of the Year for 2007.

Genny Tulloch | Alice Manard | Jenn Chamberlin

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Genny Tulloch
Born in Houston, Genny grew up sailing one and two-person dinghies, competing at the highest level nationally and internationally, first representing the US as the top girl on the Opti European Team, traveling to compete in Croatia when she was thirteen. She went on to win the US Youth World Championship spot in both the one-person and two-person female classes. As a freshman at Harvard University, Genny was named the runner-up for the Female Collegiate Sailor of the Year, a title she then earned her sophomore year, before graduating as a junior. She was named a 3-time All–American female skipper, leading her team to multiple regional and national championships.Genny’s energies are currently focused on a campaign for the 2012 Olympic Games in London: she’s the two-time defending US Women’s Match Racing World Champion, is a two-time Rolex US Yachtswoman of the Year Nominee and is currently ranked in the top ten in the world! Last year Genny’s team finished 5th in the Women’s Match Race World Championships and were given the US Sailing Team Alphagraphics Breakthrough Performance of the Year Award.

Alice Manard
Alice Manard grew up sailing in New Orleans, LA. Alice has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford, where she was captain of the sailing team from 1994–97 and an ICSA Women’s All-American in 1996 and 1997. Alice earned her MBA with Distinction from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern in 2005. She has been a member of the U.S. Sailing Team AlphaGraphics in women’s match racing (2009-2010) and the women’s 470 (1998–2001 and 2005–2006), and finished second at the U.S. Olympic 470 Trials in 1999.  She has been competing on the international match racing circuit since 2001 and recently left her job as the Director of Sailing at the College of Charleston to focus full time on match racing with Jenn and Genny.

Jenn Chamberlin
Jenn Chamberlin is from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. There she fell in love with the water and started sailing at the age of 9. Jenn is a recent graduate from St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 2009 with a degree in Economics. She was a member of the Varsity Sailing team for her school and while there she won each of the College National Championships (Women’s, Co-ed and Team Racing). Jenn was a team captain and an All-American, now she loves the athleticism the Elliott requires and the mental game of Match Racing. Jenn is the main and spinnaker trimmer on the GETsailing Team and is dedicated to working hard for a medal in 2012.

Juliana Senfft | Gabriela Sa | Luciana Kopschitz

Juliana Senfft
Born in Niteroi, Juliana started sailing at a very young age, when she was only 3 years old. Raced her first championship with 5 years. Grew up sailing in Optimist and 420. Started match racing in 2008. Have been sailing with Gabriela for the past 8 years. In 2009 was given the Rio de Janeiro State Federation Breakthrough Award. Juliana has a degree in Physical Education. She represents the club Veleiros do Sul and the Brazilian Navy. She is the skipper on Equipe Itapuca (Itapuca Team). This will be her second Nation’s Cup. She finished 6th place in the last edition, in 2009, in Porto Alegre.

Gabriela Sa
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Gabriela started sailing when she 9 was years old. Grew up sailing in Optimist and 420. Started match racing in 2008. Have been sailing with Juliana for the past 8 years. Gabriela is in her last semester of college studying Marketing. She represents the club Veleiros do Sul and the Brazilian Navy. She is the main and spinnaker trimmer on Equipe Itapuca (Itapuca Team). This will be her second Nation’s Cup. She finished 6th place in the last edition, in 2009, in Porto Alegre.

Luciana Kopschitz
Born in São Paulo, Luciana started sailing whe she was 4 years old. Grew up sailing Optimist and Laser. Started match racing in 2009. Luciana left her job as a lawyer to completely focus in the campaign for the London Olympics. She represents the club Veleiros do Sul. She is the bow person on Equipe Itapuca (Itapuca Team). This will be her first Nation’s Cup.

Mandy Mulder | Merel Witteveen | Shannen Marck

Mandy Mulder
Mandy began sailing in the Optimist at the Braassemermeer when she was 8, at ten she began racing. By the age of 15 she competed in two European Championships and one World Championship. In 2005 Mandy was selected for the national team in the Yngling, going on to take the silver medal at the Beijing Olympics.

Merel Witteveen
Merel Witteveen is one of a seven person squad training and racing together with the intentions of winning a medal at the 2012 Olympic Games. She was a part of the team that took the silver medal at the 2008 games and had previous campaigned in the Europe and Laser Radial. Also in 2008 Merel took first in a Yngling at the Miami OCR. She took 16th in her first Match Racing event in 2010. This year she took 9th at the Miami OCR as a match racer.

Shannen Marck
Shannan has come through the Talent Development Program of the Royal Dutch Yachting Union. She sailed OPtimist, 420, and 470 before joining the Match Racing team this spring. Shannen took 12th place in the Sail for Gold event held in Weymouth this year. Additionally, she placed for the Nations Cup Grand Final by earning first place in the Gydnia regional final.

Rita Goncalves | Mariana Lobato | Diane Neves

Rita Goncalves began sailing with her father at nine years old in Maputo, Mozambique. She started in the Optimist class, passed the 420 class, and has been match racing since 2001, becoming a skipper in 2003. Rita began her campaign to sail in the 2013 Olympics in 2010. She was te five time Portugal Women’s Match Racing Champion, and placed fifth in 2010 and sixth in 2011 in the European Championship.

Mariana Lobato, main sail & spinnaker trimmer. 23 years old. Began sailing at 8 years old in Lisboa, Portugal. She also began in the optimist class and has been sailing with Rita since 2006.

Diane Neves, jib trimmer & bowman. 25 years old. Started sailing at 12 in Cascais, Portugal in the Yacht Class. Diane has been sailing with Rita since 2009.

Olivia Price | Lucinda Whitty | Nina Curtis

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Olivia Price
Olivia began sailing when she was eight years old on a Manly Junior in Sydney Harbor. She first represented Australia in sailing at the Kiel ISAF World cup in 2009 where she took second place as a bowman. As a crew member Olivia and her team took first at the 2010 Sail For Gold World Cup, and 3rd at the 2010 Women’s World Championships. Since May this year, Olivia has taken up the role as one of the Australian Women’s Match Racing Team skippers, joining forces with Nina Curtis and Lucinda Whitty. Recent results include being the Australian Women’s Match Racing Champion, 3rd at 2011 Kiel World Cup, 5th at the 2011 Pre-Olympic Test Event and 6th at the Buddy Melges in Sheboygan last week.

Lucinda Whitty
Lucinda Whitty started sailing when she was 5yrs old. She has been on the Australian Women’s Match Racing Team for the past 4 years and is currently sailing with Olivia Price and Nina Curtis. She won the ISAF 2009 worlds and was named Female UTS Athlete of the Year. Other recent results include 5th at the Pre Olympic Test Event, 2nd at Kiel World Cup Event and 6th at the Buddy Melges 2011. Lucinda competed in the last Nation’s Cup Event in Brazil, coming 5th overall. Apart from Sailing, she is doing her Business degree at the University of Sydney Technology.

Nina Curtis 
Nina Curtis began sailing at the age of 6 in her home town Pittwater in Sydney. She began match racing in 2003 winning her first of 4 Australian Championships later that year. Recently Nina has been on Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal winning teams at the Woman’s ISAF World Match Racing Championships as well as winning various World Cup events such as Kiel and Sail for Gold. This will be Nina’s third consecutive Nations Cup for Australia. Nina is sailing sailing with Olivia Price and Lucinda Whitty and as a team they recently resulted 5th at the Pre Olympics regatta in Weymouth.

Katarzyna Pic | Antonina Zoltowska | Monika Kordek

Katarzyna Pic, 24 years old – skipper, represents AZS Poznan
Started sailing when she was 8 years old in the Optimist class. Than she passed from the Europe class to Laser Radial. She was 8th in Europeans Championships in 2006. She has been sailing match racing for three years, most in Open regatta with all women crew. This year crew won one of the “Polish Open” grade 3 Open event in Poland.

Antonina Zoltowska, 23 years old – foresails trimmer, represent AZS Poznan
She also grew up in the Optimist class but than moved to two-person-class. In 2009 Antonina started sailing in match racing with Katarzyna right from the beginning.

Monika Kordek, 23 years old – main trimmer, represent AZS Poznan
She had been sailing catamarans for a few years than moved to match racing and established a team with both girls.

Ru Wang | Pan Ting Ting | Li Xiao Ni

Ru Wang
Ru’s sailing career began in 1998 when she joined the Shan Dong Sailing team. She was the 1999 and 2000 China National Gam and 479 Champion and the 2002 Korea Busan Asian Hame 420 Champion. The the following year the China Championship 420 winner. In 2005 Wang joined China’s Yngling Team to particupate in the 2008 Olympics but was injured and unable to compete, however, her team went on to take 8th in the Olympics in the Yngling. She then took the following year off for studies before joining the Women’s Match Racing circuit where she has been competing since 2010.

Dominique Provoyeur | Penny Alison | Caitlin Moore

Dominique Provoyeur
Dominique grew up sailing at Zeekoei Vlei Yacht Club and has been racing dingys and keelboats for 25 years. An Olympic Campaign was always in the back of her mind, but became more of a reality in 2004 when two racing boats were brought back to SA from Europe for training. In 2007 she took 5th in the Women’s Keelboat Championships and fourteenth in the 2008 Miami OCR and Delta Lloyd Regattas.

Penny Alison
Penny has recently graduated from Art School, but is now in the midst of taking over SailPro, a sailing school for kids in Cape Town. Penny has been sailing all of her life, and is fast becoming one of the most sort after kite trimmers in South Africa. Penny has been crewing for Dominique for the most part of 12 years and was part of the South African Yngling Entry in the 2008 Olympics. Just recently Penny won the coveted Lipton Challenge Cup, the most sort after in South Africa.

Caitlin Moore
Caitlin (23), originally from Port Elizabeth, but now living in Cape Town, is the one design product manager at Southern Spars, South Africa. Caitlin forms part of the core crew and boat Manager on Windpower, and has been racing with the team for the last 4 years, finishing numerous regattas on the podium. Just recently Caitlin has become interested in Match Racing and attended a WIMRA clinic, presented by Liz Baylis. Since then, she has been actively involved in getting Match Racing off the ground in South Africa and has joined forces with Dom and Penny to represent Africa in the Nations Cup. It is a dream to continue racing at a high level and possibly represent South Africa in the next Olympics.

Sharon Ferris-Choat

Sharon Ferris-Choat and crew have been racing together sat a team just for a month, but have a very packed plan to develop their skills together over the next twelve months. Sharon has experience as an Olympic sailor in both the 1996 and 2004 games. She was ISAF rated number one in the world for nine months in the Yngling Class. Sharon has competed in the Yngling World Championships receiving the Bronze in 2003 and Silver in 2005. She took first in the Miami Rolex Olympic Regatta in 2004, and has three top ten Rolex Women’s Keelboat Championship results. Additionally, Sharon has set the World Speed Record eight times as well as winning the Oryx Quest, a non-stop round the world competition which she completed in 62 days. Sharon has taken the past three years out of her sailing career to start and family, but is back in the game and ready to learn. Crew members Caroline and Joanne have been match racing for two years.

Mads Ebler

Mads sails as a skipper and tactician on various large boats, he is the tactician on X40 for Jes Gram-Hansen. In July he took first at the International Match Racing Competition held in France. Last November Mads took ninth in the ISAF Grade 1 BMW Berlin Match Race.

Laurie Jury

Laurie Jury and his team ‘Zoke Kiwimatch’ have been competing on the match racing circuit for the last three years, during this time they have risen to 25th in the world match racing rankings, as well as winning the NZ match racing nationals in 2009 and Oceania Regional final for the Nations cup in 2011. In 2010 Laurie took first in the Mumbai International Match Race, and in 2011 took first in the Qatar Match Race.

Przemek Tarnacki | Lukasz Wosinski | Maciej Zieminski

• Micro Tonner World Champion (2000, 2003)
• Polish Match Racing Champion (2008, 2010, 2011)
• 5th at the Match Racing Europeans (2003)
• winner od 18 Grade 3 events
• winner of Nations Cup European Final Grade 2 (2011)
• 2nd at Sopot Match Race 2010 Grade 2
• founder & organiser of the annual Sopot Match Race Grade 1 event

Henrique Haddad | Mario Trindade | Victor Demaison

The team was established in 2007 and has been conquering a strong position in the Southamerican and world match race cenario after 2 Southamerican titles and the 2nd place in the Nations Cup GRAND FINAL 2009. The Team was choosed to represent the Brazilian Navy in the V World Military Games 2011, and got the gold Medal undefeated. The skipper currently stands in the 36th position in the ISAF Match Race Ranking.

Stratis Andreadis| Stelios Sotiriou | Theodoros Polychrondis

Stratis Andreadis
Stratis began sailing in 1983, with 27 years of sailing experience he has sailed in Opti’s, 420s, 470s, and Lightnings. Stratis was the runner up in the 1993 Lightning Europeans, and had success sailing competitively in offshore races in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. Next Stratis spent four years sailing on the Farr40 circuit, before deciding them too slow for his racing tastes. This brought him to sailing a 30 foot trimaran across Aegean Sea, after 1500 miles and an abandoned race due to hypothermia Stratis again took his team in another direction. Now, after several years of match racing under his belt and training with USSTAG Coach Dave Perry, Stratis represents Greece in the 2011 Nations Cup.

Theodoros Polychrondis
Theo started sailing optis in 1996. He continued competitive sailing in the 420 and 470 classes winning a bronze medal in the 2000 420 worlds and the next two succesive 470 youth worlds. After putting his Olympic 470 campaign on hold in 2008 he started racing big boats with the Atalanti sailing team and a year later match racing. Since 2008 he has not competed in any Olympic class with the exception of taking a a break from match racing for two weeks to come 4th in the 470 Europeans in 2010.

Stelios Sotiriou
Stelios started sailing in 1982 with optis then moving on to 420 and 470’s. In the 90’s raced mostly offshore boat winning the Corell45 worlds and a few Farr40 key west race weeks. The last few years have seen a part of the Greek National Sailing squad in the 49er.

Shawn Bennett | Dave Perry | Craig Healey

Shawn Bennett
Shawn Bennett has over 20 years of match racing experience starting in the late 80’s crewing in events such as the Congressional Cup, Knickerbocker Cup and the Liberty Cup with multiple top finishes achieved. After over a decade away from match racing Shawn has rediscovered his enjoyment of this exciting aspect of our sport and has quickly found his way into some great events, with some promising results. Most noteworthy being a victory at the 2010 USMRC in Bayview Detroit, which has qualified him to represent the US in the 2011 Nations Cup being held in Sheboygan WI. With this he has built a Team that will include Dave Perry and Craig Healey at the Nations cup and events leading up to it.

Dave Perry
Dave Perry is a professional sailor, coach, and author from Southport, Connecticut. Notably, Dave has coached for the USSTAG Women’s Match Race Team as well as being a rule advisor for the Olympic sailing team in 2008. In addition to his coaching experience, Dave’s recent accomplishments including winning the 2010 Toyota International Match Race for the Detroit Cup and 2009 Seawanhaka Cup as well as being that year’s North American representative at the ISAF Nations Cup.

Craig Healey
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Peter Wickwire | Tim Bishop | Matt Christie

The team started match racing in ’08 and have steadily climbed the ISAF rankings since that time. Peter is joined in Sheboygan by Tim Bishop and Matt Christie, the same team from the Nations Cup qualifier in Texas. Tim and Matt bring years of fleet racing and coaching experience to the team. The entire team has benefited from getting involved in match racing in terms of skill development, strong competition, meeting more sailors and getting to sail at many different excellent venues.

Yasar Celal Tumsen| Canberk Karahan | Berk Can Biren

Yasar Celal Tumsen
In 2003 Celal started sailing. He sailed optimist and laser classes. He won 16 national trophies including two national championships. He is a member of the turkish sailing team since 2006. In 2010 Celal and his team mates attended Monsoon Match Racing Academy started match racing. In April Celal took first in the Instanbul Match Race Cup 1 and 2. He placed second in the Europe I Regional Final to qualify for Nations Cup held in Gmunden, AUT.

Canberk Karahan 
In 2000 Canberk started sailing. He sailed optimist laser 4.7, 420 and 470 classes. He won 13 national trophies including three national championships. He is a member of the turkish sailing team since 2005. He started match racing with Celal in 2010.

Berk Can Biren
In 2001 Berk Can started sailing. He sailed optimist and laser radial classes. He won 7 national trophes including one national championship. He is a member of the turkish sailing team since 2007. He started Match Racing with Celal in 2010.

Lucy Macgregor | Annie Lush | Kate Macgregor

The GBR Match Race Girls are one of the top International Women’s Match Racing Teams and are determined to represent Great Britain in this exciting new Olympic sailing discipline in 2012. Having gained National, European and World Championship titles Lucy Macgregor, Annie Lush and Kate Macgregor are a promising prospect for the future of British Sailing.

Since learning to sail in Poole Harbour as children, Lucy and Annie have always been a driven individuals. After a successful youth sailing career for Lucy, and gaining ‘blues’ in three sports at Cambridge University for Annie, they both entered a full-time Olympic campaign with Shirley Robertson for Beijing 2008. In 2009 Lucy and Annie launched their own campaign for Gold in 2012, in the new discipline of Match Racing. In 2010 they were joined by Lucy’s younger sister Kate, who is herself a top crew in her own right having won a number of championship titles and Gold at the 2007 Olympic Youth Festival in Australia.