Mark Mendelblatt
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| Nationality | US | ||||||||||||
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February 19, 1973 St. Petersburg, Florida |
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| Residence | St. Petersburg, Florida | ||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 179 lb (81 kg) | ||||||||||||
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| Sport | Sailing | ||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Laser | ||||||||||||
| College team | Tufts University | ||||||||||||
| Club | St. Petersburg Yacht Club | ||||||||||||
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Mark Mendelblatt (born February 19, 1973) is an American yachtsman. He primarily sails the Laser, a one-design class of small (13 feet 0 inches or 3.96 metres long, and 130 lb or 59 kg) 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.
Mendelblatt, who is Jewish, was born in St. Petersburg, Florida. His father, Frank, and his brother, David (also a sailor), are ophthalmologists. His mother, Kathy, supervises their practice.
He attended St. Petersburg High School, helping its sailing team win four consecutive national titles, and graduated in 1991. He resides in St. Petersburg, and is a securities broker.
Mendelblatt began taking classes at the St. Petersburg Sailing Center when he was six years old, and started sailing competitively at age 10. In 1984, when he was 11 years old, 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.
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.
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