Summary - Olympics • 7th -
Star Men - London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition • 8th -
ILCA 7 Men - 2004 Athens Olympic Games Sailing Competition Summary - World Championships • 1st 1991
Laser II World Championship • 1st 1998
ISAF Team Racing World Championship • 2nd 2004
Laser World Championship (Olympic Qualifier) • 2nd 2009
TP52 World Championship • 3rd
Perth 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships - Star •
Etchells World Championship •
Melges 20 World Championship •
Melges 24 World Championship •
Nacra 17 World Championship •
A-Class Catamaran World Championship •
Star World Championship Early years Mendelblatt began taking classes at the St. Petersburg Sailing Center at age 6, and started sailing competitively at age 10. In 1984, at age 11, he was the overall winner at the International Optimist Dinghy National Sailing Championships in Maryland, and also won the North American title. In 1985, he was part of a five-person U.S. Optimist Dinghy team, along with his brother David, that took third place in the 25th International Optimist World Championships in team racing in Finland. It was the best U.S. finish ever in dinghy racing. He also came in second in the Optimist Pram National Championship, behind his brother David. In 1989, at the age of 16, he teamed with his 19-year-old brother David to outrace 21 other entries and win the Laser II North American Championships in Maryland. In 1991, at the age of 18, he won the Laser II World Championships in England, competing against more than 180 adult competitors.
1991–95; College In college, he was a three-time
All-American in sailing (1992–94), and was named winner of the Clarence "Pop" Houston Award as
Tufts University Athlete of the Year in both 1993 and 1994. In 1993, he won the
collegiate National Single-Handed Championship in Seattle, the New England Singlehanded Championship, and the New England Sloop Championship. In 1995 he won the Laser National Championships. He graduated Tufts in 1995, with a degree in psychology. That year he also won the Laser North American title, and the US Olympic Sailing Committee recognized him as Athlete of the Year. In 2000, he came in 2nd out of 32 boats at the Laser Olympic Team Trials. He competed in the
2004 Olympics in Laser (Mixed One-Person
Dinghy) in
Athens, and placed eighth.
2005–present regatta 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. ==See also==