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PRESTI |
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NATIONALITY: French
RESIDENCE: Arcachon, France
DATE OF BIRTH(YEAR): June 26, 1965
39years old
TEAM: Le Defi France for America'sCup
2007
CREW LIST: Antoine Breger , Gilles
Andre , Frederic Guilmin |
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| Swedish Match Tour
Results: |
| 2004-'05 |
6th -
Portugal Match Cup '04
(Crew: Jean-Marie Dauris, Fred Guilmin, Maurier Husson, Christian Scherrer) |
| 2002-'03 |
No events
sailed. |
| 2001-'02 |
1st
- ACI Cup '02 |
| 2000-'01 |
3rd -
Match Race Germany '01 |
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| America's Cup Affiliation: |
| le De'fi Franc,ais 2003
- Helmsman, 8th Louis Vuitton Cup 2003 |
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| Additional Accomplishments: |
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 |
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| Additional Information: |
Philippe Presti is one of the most affable
Frenchman you'll ever meet. He's usually found
laughing with others and showing the gshaka,h
where the thumb and little finger are extended
while the middle three fingers are closed. In
surfer's parlance it means ghang loose.h
Philippe Presti is one of the most versatile
sailors on the Swedish Match 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 De'fi 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.
Now, Presti is fully engaged in match-racing.
He placed third at the 2004 World Championship
in Russia, and plans to compete as often as possible
on the 2004-'05 Swedish Match Tour.
He has also resigned with le De'fi for the next
America's Cup, and is slated to be the helmsman.
Presti lives with his girlfriend Cecile, a former
professional beach volleyball player, and they
have a 3-year-old son named Julian. |
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