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27 - 31 August 2008
Frederikshavn, Denmark
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Finnish skipper Staffan Lindberg at the Monsoon Cup Quarterfinal Round press conference on Dec. 3, 2005. (World Match Racing Tour/Guido Cantini/Sea&See)
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Staffan Lindberg and crew have Mathieu Richard tucked astern in Flight 3. (©Swedish Match Tour/Guido Cantini)
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Nationality Finnish
Residence Mariehamn, Åland
Date of Birth Oct. 16, 1971
Team Web site Alandia Sailing Team
Staffan placed eleventh in the final 2006-’07 Tour standings with 37 points and is 6th in the ISAF World ranking.
WMRT.com Content
The Pride of Finland
(Mar. 10, 2006)
World Match Racing Tour Results
2006-’07
9th — Monsoon Cup ’07
(Crew: Karl Johan Uckelstam, Daniel Mattsson, Martin Berntsson, Robert Skarp)
10th — Bermuda Gold Cup ’07
(Crew: Magnus Hansson, Robert Skarp, Carl-Johan Uckelstam)
11th — St. Moritz Match Race ’07
(Crew: Robert Skarp, Carl-Johan Uckelstam)
9th — Danish Open ’07
(Crew: Nils Bjerkas, Daniel Wallberg, Niklas Carlzon, Robert Nyberg)
3rd — Match Race Germany ’07
(Crew: Robert Skarp, Magnus Hansson, Martin Krite, Carl-Johan Uckelstamm)
7th — Bermuda Gold Cup ’06
(Crew: Nils Bjerkas, Robert Skarp, Carl-Johan Uckelstam)
4th — Danish Open ’06
(Crew Nils Bjerkås, Niklas Carlzon, Martin Krite, Daniel Wallberg)
8th — Portugal Match Cup '06
(Crew: Nils Bjerkas, Niklas Carlzon, Carl-Johan Skoterstan, Daniel Wallberg)
2005-’06
3rd — St. Moritz Match Race ’05
(Crew: Robert Skarp, Carl-Johan Uckelstam)
4th — Monsoon Cup ’05
(Crew: Martin Berntsson, Nils Bjerkås, Carl-Johan Uckelstam, Daniel Wallberg)
4th — Match Race Germany ’06
(Crew: Niklas Carlzon, Robert Skarp, Karl-Johan Uckelstam, Magnus Hansson)
5th — PTPortugal Match Cup ’05
(Crew: Nils Bjerkas, Niklas Carlzon, Carl-Johan Uckelstam, Daniel Wallberg)
9th — Brazil Sailing Cup ’06
(Crew: Nils Bjerkas, Robert Skarp, Carl-Johan Uckelstam, Daniel Wallberg)
10th — ACI Match Race Cup ’06
(Crew: Nils Bjerkås, Niklas Carlzon, Peter Krull, Emil Wiberg)
2004-’05
4th — Danish Open ’04
(Crew: Nils Bjerkås, Martin Krite, Johan Karlsson, Daniel Wallberg)
6th — ACI H1 Match Race Cup ’05
(Crew: Nils Bjerkås, Johan Karlsson, Carl-Johan Uckelstam, Daniel Wallberg)
6th — King Edward VII Gold Cup ’04
(Crew: Nils Bjerkås, Martin Krite, Daniel Wallberg)
7th — Portugal Match Cup ’04
(Crew: Johan Karlsson, Martin Krite, Daniel Mattsson, Daniel Wallberg)
8th — Match Race Germany ’05
(Crew: Nils Bjerkås, Johan Karlsson, Carl-Johan Uckelstem, Robert Sharp)
15th — Swedish Match Cup ’05
(Crew: Nils Bjerkas, Niclas Carlzon, Carl-Johan Uckelstam, Daniel Wallberg)
2003-’04
8th — Nippon Cup ’03
9th — ACI HTmobile Cup ’04
15th — Swedish Match Cup ’04
2002-’03
3rd — Danish Open ’02
8th — King Edward VII Gold Cup ’02
9th — Swedish Match Cup ’03
10th — Match Race Germany ’03
2001-’02
No events sailed.
2000-’01
No events sailed.
2000
No events sailed.
Achievements
1st Yava Trophy 07
3rd Match Europeans ´07
1st Match Europeans ´07
2nd Scandinavian Champs ´07
4th — Match Racing World Championship ’02
4th — Soling Match Race Europeans ’99
Nordic Match Racing Champion ’03
Sydney-Hobart ’01, Lodka Bols
Swedish and Nordic 606 Champion ’01
Additional Information
Staffan lives in Mariehamn, Finland, located on the Åland Islands between Finland and Sweden, with his wife, Annica, and son, Nicolas.
Although the islands are sovereign to Finland all residents of Mariehamn speak Swedish, which is partly why his main crewmembers – Nils Bjerkås, Robert Skarp, Carl-Johan Uckelstam , Niklas Carlzon and Magnus Hansson – are Swedish.
“Finnish is the third language spoken,” Lindberg says, “behind Swedish and English.”
Lindberg operates a book distribution company with some friends. “We started off selling paperbacks in convenience stores. We’d bring the shelves in and stock them,” he says. “Now we’re looking to broaden our horizons and we have also started 2 companies selling batteries and wines respectively.”
Lindberg’s father passed his love of sailing on to his son and bought him an Optimist dinghy when he was 10 years old. From Optimists Lindberg moved into the Europe and Laser, singlehanded dinghies that suited the lanky, 6-foot-4 skipper. From the singlehanded classes he graduated to the H-Boat, a 26-foot, three-person keelboat that’s widely popular in Finland. The National Championship would attract up to 90 boats.
“That’s how I got into match-racing,” Lindberg says. “The H-Boat was used for match-racing events in Finland.”
Match-racing isn’t Lindberg’s sole focus. He also crews on the maxi boat Bols and estimates he’s logged about 10,000 miles. He has also two Olympic campaigns under his belt: A Soling campaign for the 2000 games and a Star campaign for next years Olympics. The latter stopped due to lack of time. Although he believes in cross-training, competing in fleet and match-racing, it’s the complexity of match-racing that rivets his attention.
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