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Mitja Margon

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Mitja Margon

SSL Team SLOVENIA
GOLD CUP SSL RK SSL RK
Status
C
Skipper
Crew
HEIGHT WEIGHT AGE
181 88 53

BIO


As a flokist, together with helmsman Tomaž Čopi, he paved the Slovenian sailing success story in the 470 class, in which they won the first major international championships for Slovenia - silver at the World Championships (1998), two silver medals at the European Championships (1998, 1999), gold at the Mediterranean Games. They competed at the Olympic Games in Atlanta (1996) and Sydney (2000). After his Olympic career, he devoted his time to entrepreneurship, organisation of the sailing events, and as preseident of the sailing club Pirat to the development of sailing in Portorož. In top sailing events he is a crew member of Team Nika, which has been competing in the RC44 class for a decade and with which they are the only team to have won three world championship titles.

Best Results


RANK EVENT CITY, COUNTRY CLASS DATE
2 RC44 World Championship Marstrand, SWE RC44 2019
6 RC44 World Championship Rovinj, CRO RC44 2012
9 Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Sailing Competition Sydney, AUS 470 - Men 2000
4 Mens / Mixed 470 World Championship Melbourne, AUS 470 - Men 1999
2 470 World Championship Mallorca, ESP 470 - Men 1998

Note

* C = SELECTION CONFIRMED TBC = SELECTION TO BE CONFIRMED