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27 - 31 August 2008
Frederikshavn, Denmark
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Day 1 from Match Cup Sweden at Sail.TV
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French skipper Philippe Presti kept his affable nature in tact despite losing the ACI H1 Match Race Cup to Peter Gilmour. (Swedish Match Tour/Guido Cantini)
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Frenchman Philippe Presti raises the Y flag looking for a penalty while crewmen Antoine Breger and Fred Guilmin work the spinnaker. (Swedish Match Tour/Kaoru Soehata)
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America’s Cup teams in action: Michele Ivaldi and his Luna Rossa crew lead le Défi’s Philippe Presti downwind at Nippon Cup 2004. (Swedish Match Tour/Kaoru Soehata)
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Ed Baird (background) leads Philippe Presti upwind during their deciding quarterfinal match at Match Race Portugal. (Guido Cantini/Sea&See)
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Nationality French
Date of Birth June 26, 1965
Residence Arcachon, France
Philippe placed 5th in 2004-'05 after scoring 44 points in five events. It was his highest finish ever on the tour.
World Match Racing Tour Results
2006- '07 - 16th Overall
2006-’07
2nd - Brasil Sailing Cup 07
(Crew:Israël Erwan, Falxa Julien, Husson Xavier, Andre Gilles)
8th - Danish Open 07
(Crew:Philippe Mourniac, Jean Marie Dauris, Joey Newton, Mangnus Auguston)
7th - Troia Portugal Match Cup 07
(Crew:Philippe Mourniac, Jean Marie Dauris, Joey Newton, Mangnus Auguston)
11th - St Moritz 06
(Crew: Stephane Christidis, Thomas Deplanque)
2005-’06
7th — ACI Match Race Cup ’06
(Crew: Paolo Bassani, Tom Burnham, Ben Durham, Andy Fethers)
2004-’05 — 5th Overall
2004-’05
2nd — ACI H1 Match Race Cup ’05
(Crew: Thierry Fouchier, Fred Guilmin, Pascal Rambeau, Mathieu Renault)
5th — Nippon Cup ’04
(Crew: Crew: Gilles Andre, Antoine Breger, Fred Guilmin)
6th — Portugal Match Cup ’04
(Crew: Jean-Marie Dauris, Fred Guilmin, Maurier Husson, Christian Scherrer)
7th — Danish Open ’04
(Crew: Antoine Breger, Jean-Marie Dauris, Fred Guilmin, Xavier Husson, Philippe Mourniac)
12th — Swedish Match Cup ’05
(Crew: Thierry Fouchier, Andre Gilles, Fred Guilmin, Pascal Rambeau)
2002-’03
No events sailed.
2001-’02
1st — ACI Cup ’02
2000-’01
3rd — Match Race Germany ’01
America’s Cup Affiliation
Luna Rossa Challenge 2007 – Aftergard, 2nd Louis Vuitton Cup 2007
Le Défi Français 2003 – Helmsman, 8th Louis Vuitton Cup 2003
Achievements
Two-time Finn World Champion (1993, ’96)
Two-time French Match Racing Champion (1999, 2001)
2nd — Soling World Championship ’00
3rd — Match Racing World Championship ’04
4th — Star World Championship ’04
Biography
Philippe Presti is one of the most affable Frenchman you’ll ever meet. He’s usually found laughing with others and showing the “shaka,” where the thumb and little finger are extended while the middle three fingers are closed. In surfer’s parlance it means “hang loose.”
Philippe Presti is one of the most versatile sailors on the World Match Racing Tour. No matter what type of boat he steps in – singlehanded or crewed keelboat – he tends to enjoy success.
Presti has been sailing as far back as he can remember. He started sailing on lakes with family members, and didn’t take up racing until he was 20 years old. But he proved a quick learner.
Presti won his first of two Finn Gold Cups in 1993, less than 10 years after he began racing. That’s a quick rise in one of the most physically demanding classes that is the Olympic men’s singlehanded dinghy.
He won a second Gold Cup one month before the’96 Olympic Regatta off Savannah, Ga., but he suffered from a case of heat stroke that sapped his strength. He finished 15th in the class.
Tired of sailing by himself, Presti then turned his efforts to the Soling and the 2000 Olympic Regatta in Sydney, Australia. He placed second in the Soling World Championship in 2000, but couldn’t advance out of the fleet racing portion and into the match-racing portion of the event.
Following the Olympics Presti joined France’s Le Défi America’s Cup syndicate for the 2003-’04 Louis Vuitton Cup as an afterguard member. The team placed eighth in the challengers’ competition after a tumultuous run that saw the afterguard constantly in flux.
Undaunted, Presti moved into the Star class after the Louis Vuitton Cup, hoping to represent France in the Athens Olympics. Again, he showed a deft touch in adapting to a new class. He placed third in the European Championship and fourth in the Worlds, but lost the berth on France’s team to a rival.
After three Louis Vuitton Acts in 2004 as skipper and helmsman of the French America's Cup team Le Défi he joined the Italian flag with Luna rossa Callenge 2007 as B-boat helmsman and racing aftergard. The team went into the final of the Louis Vuitton Cup defeating BMW Oracle and losing against Emirates Team New Zealand.
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