Mark Mendelblatt
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| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||||
| Born | February 19, 1973 St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 179 lb (81 kg) | ||||||||||||||
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| Class(es) | ILCA 7, Nacra 17, Laser II, Star, A-Catamaran, Melges 20, 49er, Etchells, Melges 24, TP52, Soling, Vanguard 15 | ||||||||||||||
| Club | St. Petersburg Yacht Club | ||||||||||||||
| College team | Tufts University | ||||||||||||||
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Mark Mendelblatt (born February 19, 1973) is an American yachtsman. Married to windsurfer Carolina Mendelblatt (née Borges), he primarily sails the Laser Radial, a one-design class of small (13 ft 0 in or 3.96 m long, and 130 lb or 59 kg) single-handed sailing dinghy. Beginning in 2005, he also started to race in the two-person keelboat Star class.
At age 11, he won the International Optimist Dinghy National Sailing Championships, and at age 18, he won the Laser II World Championships. A three-time college All-American at Tufts University, he won a silver medal in the Laser at the 1999 Pan American Games. In 2004, he won a silver medal at the Laser World Championships.