Daily Lift - Zach Railey's Start to Sailing

Did you know that Zach Railey first started sailing when he was eight years old at the advice of his dentist?  By the time he was ten years old, he had qualified for his first ever World Championship in the Optimist Class.  Today, Zach has a silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games, is a member of the US Sailing Team Sperry Top-Sider, and is representing the United States again in the Finn Class for the 2012 Olympics in Weymouth.

Daily Lift - Mark Mendelblatt at Tufts

Did you know that Mark Mendelblatt, of the US Sailing Team Sperry Top-Sider, was a three-time Collegiate All-American at Tufts University? During his college career Mendelblatt won the ICSA Singlehanded National Championship in 1993. He was also awarded the Clarence “Pop” Houston Award for Tufts’ Athlete of the Year in 1993 and 1994.

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The United States has held the largest medal count in sailing at five Olympiads (1932, 1948, 1952, 1968, and 1984).  Great Britain is the only other country that boasts this acheivement, taking the largest sailing medal count in 2008 to even the score with the United States.  With both countries tied at the top of the leaderboard of Olympic Sailing history, the 2012 games present an opportunity for each country to assert their sailing dominance over the rest of the world.

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During the modern Olympic era, how many times has the United States finished with the largest overall medal count in Sailing?  Come back tomorrow for the answer!

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Did you know that the United States has medaled three out of six times that the women's 470 class has been raced in the Olympics?  Allison Jolly, won the gold medal for the United States in 470's inaugural Olympics as a women's class.

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Brazil has won a total of 16 medals in Sailing during the modern Olympic Era.  Nine of these medals are accounted for between Robert Scheidt (4) and Torben Grael (5).  Grael won two gold medals, a silver medal, and two bronze medals between 1984 and 2004 in the Star and Soling classes.  He is currently the only sailor in Olympic history with five total medals.  Scheidt won two gold medals and two silver medals between 1996 and 2008 in the Laser and Star classes.  He is one of the favorites for the upcoming 2012 games, in Weymouth, to take home gold in the Star class.

Daily Lift - Tunnicliffe

Did you know that Olympic Gold Medalist Anna Tunnicliffe has won 3 ICSA Women’s Singlehanded National Championships at Old Dominion University, and is one of the few female sailors in the history of college sailing to receive Co-ed All-American Honors?

Daily Lift - Olympic Trivia

Norway won the most medals (11) in Olympic Sailing history in 1920 in Antwerp, Belgium.  Norway racked up seven gold medals, three silver medals, and a single bronze medal at this Olympiad.  The 1920 games was also the second of four straight Olympiads in which Norway won the most medals in sailing (1912, 1920, 1924, and 1928).

Daily Lift - Olympic Trivia

The most medals a single country has earned in Sailing in a given Olympiad are 11.  Name the country and the year in which that country won 11 medals in Sailing.  Come back tomorrow for the answer!

Daily Lift - Storck and Moore

Erik Storck and Trevor Moore are sailing for the United States this summer’s Olympic Games in the 49er class for U.S. Sailing Sperry Top-Sider.  Did you know that both were finalists for ICSA’s College Sailor of the Year award in 2007?  Moore, sailing for Hobart and William Smith, won the award over Stork, sailing for Dartmouth.  Today, Moore crews for Stork as they set off for Olympic Gold in Weymouth