Mark Mendelblatt Athlete

Mark Mendelblatt (born February 19, 1973) is an American yachtsman. He primarily sails the Laser, a one-design class of small (13 feet 0 inches or 3.96 metres 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.When he was 11 years old, he won the International Optimist Dinghy National Sailing Championships, and when he was 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.