Team USA – Sailing will be represented at Paris 2024 by 13 sailors hailing from eight U.S. states and territories including California, Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Rhode Island, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Wisconsin. The sailing events of the XXXIII Olympiad will take place from July 26 to August 11, 2024 with sailing races happening between July 28th and August 9th. The racing venue is the historic bay of Marseille on the Mediterranean, approximately 500 miles southeast of Paris, considered a “satellite venue.”
Team USA is bringing fresh talent to the waters of Marseille with nine of the thirteen athletes making their first Olympic appearance. Roble, Shea, and Dallman-Weiss will return for their second Games following Tokyo. Stu McNay will sail his fifth Olympics in the 470 but first in the mixed discipline after it made the shift from an all men’s boat following Toyko 2020. The U.S. will not compete in the Men’s Singlehanded Dinghy (ILCA 7) event after narrowly missing national qualification in that class.
The program is led by Marcus Lynch, who has been involved in the professional sailing scene since 2000 — first as an athlete for the British Sailing Team (BST), then as a coach for the BST’s Paralympic Team in London 2012 & Rio 2016. Most recently, Lynch served as Olympic Performance Manager for the German Sailing Team for Tokyo 2020, their most successful Games in over two decades.
Sally Barkow and Kate Drummey are serving as Deputy Team Leaders for Paris 2024. Barkow is a 2008 Olympian and has been professionally involved with the US Team since 2019 - first as an Athlete Advisory Council rep and US Sailing Board Member, then as a Nacra 17 coach and Performance Manager, and now as the Team’s Head of Olympic Operations. Drummey has spent her entire career working in Olympic sport, first entering the scene out of college with the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC). She joined the US Sailing Team in 2015 and serves as the team’s Olympic Operations Manager. This will be her third Olympics with the Sailing Team.
American sailors have been a part of every Olympic Games since Paris 1900. Team USA has won 60 medals in sailing, second-most only to Great Britain as of Tokyo 2020, and some of the most accomplished sailors in history have competed at the Games under the stars and stripes.
Athletes to Watch:
Daniela Moroz is taking the stage for Kiteboarding's Olympic debut in at Paris 2024. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area by windsurfing parents, Moroz learned to kite at age 12 and began competing internationally at age 14. She sailed her first World Championship at age 15, won her first world title only a year later at age 16, and has since then taken the kiting world by storm, winning six consecutive World Championships.
Stephanie Roble and Maggie Shea grew up as fierce competitors in the Midwest and teamed up in 2016 to chase Olympic dreams in the highly athletic and technical 49erFX. They won the Tokyo spot against seasoned Olympians and their hunger for the podium grew stronger as they advanced through the ranks on the international circuit and chased a second Olympics together. Roble and Shea have been globally ranked in the top 5 for a year and a half leading into the 2024 Olympic Games and have their sights set on a top three in Marseille.
Stu McNay and Lara Dallman-Weiss will take the water in Marseille with some of the most combined Olympic experience of any sailors competing in the Paris Olympics. McNay is a four-time Olympian in the Men's 470, Dallman-Weiss competed in the Women's 470 in Tokyo, and together they'll compete in the new mixed gender 470 on one boat. Stu's best Olympic result was a 4th place just off the podium in Rio 2016, and the pair is eager to bring home a medal for the USA.
For inquiries: Allison Chenard - allisonchenard@ussailing.org
