page_title: Mark Mendelblatt
section_title: 2005–present
hierarchical_section_title: Mark Mendelblatt / Sailing career / 2005–present
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Starboot-Regatta: Eröffnungsrennen der Internationalen Deutschen Meisterschaft der Starboote 2010 auf dem Berliner Wannsee. Im Vordergrund (GER 7860) Markus Wieser (VSaW) und Ulli Seeberger (YCR), dahinter (GER 8140) Alexander Schlonski (NRV) und Mathias Bohn (WSC) English: Starboat-regatta: First race of German Open/international german championship of starboats 2010 at Wannsee/Berlin. In front (GER 7860) Markus Wieser (VSaW) and Ulli Seeberger (YCR), currently next (GER 8140) Alexander Schlonski (NRV) and Mathias Bohn (WSC)
context_page_description: Mark Mendelblatt is an American yachtsman. Married to Carolina Borges He primarily sails the Laser, a one-design class of small single-handed sailing dinghy. Beginning in 2005, he also started to race in the two-person keelboat Star class.
  When he was 11 years old, he won the International Optimist Dinghy National Sailing Championships, and when he was 18, he won the Laser II World Championships. A three-time college All-American at Tufts University, he won a silver medal in the Laser at the 1999 Pan American Games. In 2004, he won a silver medal at the Laser World Championships.
context_section_description: In March 2005, he was ranked 4th in the world in the Laser, behind Scheidt, Paul Goodison of Great Britain, and Michael Blackburn of Australia.  That month, he also won the two-person racing keelboat Star class 78th Bacardi Cup on Biscayne Bay, with Mark Strube as crew.  In June 2006, Mendelblatt and Strube won the 2006 Kiel Week in Germany, beating Scheidt and crewman Bruno Prada.  In August 2006, he and Strube won the Star European Championship over 93 boats in Neustadt, Germany, again defeating second-place finishers Scheidt and Prada.  Mendelblatt accepted a position in the fall of 2006 with Emirates Team New Zealand, and in April 2007 replaced injured veteran Adam Beashel.
  Mendelblatt and Strube won Kiel Week again in both 2008 and 2009.  In 2010, Mendelblatt won the Miami Rolex OCR.  In June 2011, he and Brian Fatih won the Star class medal race at the Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta in Dorset, England.  Mendelblatt and Fatih competed together at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
caption: A Starboat regatta
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