2026 Star World Championship
November 5-14, 2026
Miami, FL, USA

Star Worlds Offers Free U30 Housing

Recognizing the importance of attracting the U30 sailors, Eastern Yacht Club and its members have graciously offered to house U30 sailors gratis during the event.  Priority will be given to these teams to enable them to attend this prestigious event as well as experience Marblehead hospitality.

The 100^th Anniversary of Star Class World Championships will be held this September 10-17, 2022 in Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA.   The host for the event is the prestigious Eastern Yacht Club. 

Eastern Yacht Club has hosted the Star Class World Championship twice; first in 1981 and most recently in 1997.

Interested sailors are encouraged to contact the Class for the availability of charter boats to attend this and other major events.  For more information: Star Worlds Website  

Star Class Office

Entry Open for 2022 World Championship & 100th Anniversary of Star World Championships

Entry is now open for the 2022 Star World Championship. This will be a celebration of the first 100 years of the Star World Championships.

STARTLING FINALE AT THE 2021 STAR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

The 2021 Star World Champions who won the event yesterday at the end of Race 5, Diego Negri (ITA) and Frithjof Kleen, have sailed a flawless series and topped everyone else in the 83-boat fleet. They opted for not racing today and left the field free to the teams fighting for the Star Worlds podium. And it proved to be quite a battle, first of all with their nerves.
 
18 boats were spotted over the starting line early in the second general recall of race six with a black flag hoisted, and for this they were disqualified. A heavy burden for a few, already discarding a high result in their scorecard. They all presented a request for redress, but the jury rejected all but one. Mateusz Kusznierewicz and Bruno Prada were granted redress by the International Jury but due to their first UFD, it didn’t help much in their hunt for a place in the spotlight.
 
On the water, the fight for the medals was decided between the Austrians Johann Spitzauer and Hans-Christian Nehammer (AUT) and Olympic silver medalist Tonci Stipanovic with Tudor Bilic (CRO). The 2017 Star World Champion Eivind Melleby (NOR) with Guy Thomas Avellon (USA) and Denmark's Jörgen Schönherr, who had three-time European Champion Markus Koy (GER) onbord, were also still in the game.

DIEGO NEGRI AND FRITHJOF KLEEN ARE THE 2021 STAR WORLD CHAMPIONS

“It is unbelievable, a dream come true", commented a very emotional Diego Negri, who has been a three-time runner-up at the Star Worlds. "And today was a tough day with rain and clouds around. Towards the end the wind dropped a lot so I was really, really afraid that it would be cancelled and it would have been too much to take in, but luckily we made it to the finish line”.
“It’s been a long way to come to this finish line. All my sailing history is coming together here, today. I think it was a tough championship, with some waiting in the beginning, and then two long races per day, trying to keep the focus at all times. But it’s great, and it came in a good moment in my sailing career. I don't know what I could have done better this week, I knew that we had to do something special to beat the other guys, Mateusz and Bruno, Xavier and the others, and I think Frithjof and I really did something special. We’ve prepared hard for this, with Werner Fritz helping us, coming out so many times with us on Lake Garda, always trusting us, and then thanks to Folli who gave me this amazing beautiful girl, I love her!! I named her ‘21’ because she arrived after the pandemic in 2021, and she is a winner like in blackjack, where 21 is the winning number. So she will now be my baby forever. Special thanks go to my family, of course, especially my wife, without her, there would be no chance I could have done any of this. Thanks to everyone!”