Winning a World Cup at age 70? Simply Mauro Pelaschier
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In Santa Margherita Ligure, during the VELAFestival, we had paid tribute to his 70th birthday. But we were sure that Mauro Pelaschier would experience yet another season of sailing at the highest level. We knew that among the many things he does, he had two important commitments on his calendar. The World ORC in Sibenik aboard Xp44 Wb Five and the World 12m S.I. in Newport on Nyala (Read HERE). The result? Two wins, the ORC one in the Corinthian classification and in the 12m in the Vintage category. At age 70, you will hardly find a sailor who continues to do activities at this level and doesn’t stop winning.
Pelaschier represents a turning point in Italian sailing. Born in 1949 in Monfalcone (Gorizia, as he told us in an old interview with GDV he was born at the Oscar Cosulich Sailing Society), in a family of shipwrights and great sailors (his uncle Hannibal, a three-time Olympian, inspired the name of Monfalcone’s Hannibal marina), he won nine Italian Finn titles between ’64 and ’77 and participated in the ’72 and ’76 Olympics: with this resume he was ready for the America’s Cup, and in ’83 he was at the helm of Azzurra: he reached the semifinals of the Louis Vuitton Cup and great media fame.
Mauro succeeded in realizing his dream: to make a living from sailing.The first professional sailor in Italy, he served as an example to many young people to devote themselves body and soul to racing. In 2007 he returned to the America’s Cup, serving as coach of the Mascalzone Latino team.
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