Marco Gradoni
Italian sailor
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Born | 24 March 2004 (age 19) Rome, Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Class(es) | 470, Optimist | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Marco Gradoni is an Italian sailor. He became the first Optimist sailor in history to win three successive World Championship titles (2017, 2018 and 2019).[1] In doing so, Gradoni was awarded the Rolex World Sailor of The Year Award in 2019, being the youngest ever recipient.[2][3]
Gradoni currently sails in the mixed 470 class as a skipper.
He won the 470 mixed world junior championship 2021 in Sanremo.
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- 1994: Blake & Knox-Johnston
- 1995: Coutts
- 1996: Schümann
- 1997: Goss
- 1998: Ainslie
- 1999: Kusznierewicz
- 2000: Reynolds & Liljedahl
- 2001: Scheidt
- 2002: Ainslie
- 2003: Coutts
- 2004: Scheidt
- 2005: Echavarri & Paz
- 2006: Sanderson
- 2007: Baird
- 2008: Ainslie
- 2009: Grael
- 2010: Slingsby
- 2011: Martínez de Lizarduy & Fernández
- 2012: Ainslie
- 2013: Belcher
- 2014: Spithill
- 2015: Burling & Tuke
- 2016: Lange
- 2017: Burling
- 2018: Kontides
- 2019: Gradoni
- 2020: not assigned
- 2021: Slingsby
- 2022: Tita
References
- ^ "Short list for World Sailor of the Year >> Scuttlebutt Sailing News". Scuttlebutt Sailing News. 2019-09-30. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
- ^ "Marco Gradoni becomes youngest Rolex World Sailor of the Year". www.sail-world.com. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
- ^ Nixon, W. M. "World Sailing's Bermuda Decisions Will have Longterm Significance as Young People Become the Real Adults". afloat.ie. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
External links
- Marco Gradoni at World Sailing