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Team New Zealand`s Dean Barker of the Omega Match Racing Team in action at Nippon Cup 2003.
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Dean Barker of the OMEGA Match Racing Team leads American Bill Hardesty at the King Edward VII Gold Cup 2003. (Sergio Dionisio/ Oceanfashion Pictures)
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Nationality New Zealand
Residence Auckland, New Zealand
Date of Birth April 18, 1973
Dean placed in a tie for 11th in the final 2004-05 standings after scoring 30 points in two events.
World Match Racing Tour Results
2005-06 11th Overall
2004-05 11th Overall
2001-02 6th Overall
2000-01 5th Overall
2000 2nd Overall
2005-06
4th Danish Open 05
(Crew: Don Cowie, Jared Henderson, Terry Hutchinson, Grant Loretz)
6th Brazil Sailing Cup 06
(Crew: Don Cowie, James Dagg, Jared Henderson, Terry Hutchinson)
7th Monsoon Cup 05
(Crew: Don Cowie, James Dagg, Jared Henderson, Terry Hutchinson)
2004-05
3rd Nippon Cup 04
(Crew: James Dagg, Ray Davies, Jared Henderson)
3rd Swedish Match Cup 05
(Crew: Don Cowie, James Dagg, Jared Henderson, Terry Hutchinson)
2003-04
4th Bermuda Gold Cup 03
4th Nippon Cup 03
2002-03
No events sailed
2001-02
1st Swedish Match Cup 02
2nd Trofeo Challenge Roberto Trombini 01
6th Swedish Match Tour Rankings 01-02
8th Congressional Cup 02
9th Steinlager Line 7 Cup 02
2000-01
1st ACI Cup 01
5th Steinlager Line 7 Cup 01
13th Swedish Match Cup 01
2000
1st ACI Cup/World Championship of Match Race Sailing 00
1st Swedish Match Cup 00
2nd Swedish Match Tour Rankings 2000
2nd Sun Microsystems Australia Cup 00
3rd Steinlager Line 7 Cup 00
Americas Cup Affiliation
2007: Emirates Team New Zealand Helmsman
2003: Team New Zealand Helmsman, lost 31st Americas Cup Match
2000: Team New Zealand Alternate helmsman, drove New Zealand (NZL-60) to victory in fifth and final race of Americas Cup 2000
Accomplishments
1st 1993 Asian Pacific Laser Championship
1st 1994 NZ Match Racing National Championship
1st 1997 NZ Match Racing National Championship
1st 1998 Kenwood Cup,
1st 1998 Australia Cup
2nd 1997 Admirals Cup
Additional Information
Team New Zealand skipper Dean Barker rocketed to Americas Cup prominence in a remarkably short time. From a career in dinghies, during which he secured several international titles and the world youth title, his first taste of Americas Cup campaigning came when he was invited to help Team New Zealand with their preparations for the 1995 campaign.
He spent about five months with the team during its time in New Zealand, but declined an invitation to join them in San Diego, opting to concentrate on an Olympic Finn campaign.
His keelboat potential had been identified, and he didnt hesitate when invited to join Team New Zealand for its 2000 Defense of the Cup. Barkers match-race skills were on the rise and, as he led a young Team New Zealand crew to a number of successes on the international circuit, his role began to change.
Increasingly, he was given the task of helming the tune-up boat until he finally made the position his own. Out on the waters of the Hauraki Gulf, Barkers task was to provide the stiffest competition possible to the Team New Zealand race team.
His chance to prove himself in the Cup came sooner than even he might have expected. Coutts surprisingly offered him the helm of the Team New Zealand boat in the fifth and final match of the 2000 Americas Cup. Suddenly, at the age of 26, Barker had arrived at a pinnacle most sailors never achieve and those that do only much later in life.
He followed up the Cup victory by winning the World Championship of Match Race Sailing at the ACI Cup in 2000, just two months after winning Race 5 of the 2000 Cup.
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