Mitch Booth
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| Full name | Mitchell Jay Booth | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | 'The Legend' | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Australian /Dutch | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 January 1963 Sydney, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Class | Tornado | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Pittwater,Palm Beach, Sydney, Australia ; Rotterdamsche Zeilvereeniging; CV Palamós | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mitchell Jay "Mitch" Booth (born 4 January 1963, in Sydney) is a sailor of both Australian and Dutch nationality.
Background
Booth started his sailing career at the age of four, when his mother taught him the basics on Pittwater. Alongside his father John (Jay) Booth won his first State Championship as a seven-year-old boy. His father honored his desire to skipper and compete in international competitions. His first break-through came at the age of seventeen, when finishing second in an Australian Championship. This achievement guaranteed his participation at the World Championship in the United States. From a fleet of over hundred boats representing nine countries, he and his crew went on to win the title. Since then Booth has made his life as a professional sailor. The projects have varied from Olympic sailing to Ocean racing and to keel boat racing. Off the water he has been involved in many sailing related activities including the creation of the current Olympic Tornado class Rig, design and build of A Class cats, the creation of Volvo Extreme 40, sailing Manager for America's cup team (1995) and technical adviser to ISAF.
Olympics
- 3rd 1992 Summer Olympics (ESP) with crew
John Forbes (AUS) - 2nd 1996 Summer Olympics (USA) with crew Andrew Landenberger (AUS)
- Coach 2000 Summer Olympics (AUS) for the Australian national team squad
- 5th 2004 Summer Olympics (GRE) with crew
Herbert Dercksen (NED) - 5th 2008 Summer Olympics (CHN) with crew Pim Nieuwenhuis (NED)
[1]He represented his native country for the first time at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Booth as helmsman in the Australian Tornado with John Forbes as crew took Bronze. In 1996, Booth made a second appearance this time with crew member Andrew Landenberger the team took the Silver in the Tornado. In 2004, Athens Booth represented the Netherlands as helmsman of the Dutch Tornado.[2][3] With crew member Herbert Dercksen Booth took 5th place.[4] His final Olympic appearance came during the 2008 Summer Olympics[5] in Qingdao. Now with crew member Pim Nieuwenhuis in the Dutch Tornado, Booth finished 5th.[6]
Other
In total he took part in over 60 World Championships, becoming a 11 times World Champion with wins various multihull classes including the A-Class, Formula 18, Hobie Tiger, Hobie Wildcat, Tornado and Extreme 40. In the 50 national championships in which he took part he took the title a total of 13 times. He has won 23 out of 47 Australian State Championships in which he performed. He won eight European titles since becoming Dutch in sixteen starts.
