Red Bull Youth America's Cup: German talent team qualifies for the Youth America's Cup

The Red Bull Youth America's Cup will take place for the second time with German participation. As race directors Roman Hagara and Hans-Peter Steinacher announced on Monday, the talented German team led by helmsman Paul Kohlhoff from Strande has qualified for the junior regatta on the Cup stage. The twelve young teams, including the six "youth sections" of the current America's Cup teams, will compete against each other on AC45F catamarans. These are the same boats on which the America's Cup World Series has been held in the past two years. The Red Bull Youth America's Cup is scheduled to take place from 12 to 21 June, in a window between the challenger series and the 35th America's Cup duel.

20 teams had applied to take part. "We worked very hard for this vote and are now of course proud and overjoyed to have been nominated for the 2nd Red Bull Youth America's Cup and to be travelling to Bermuda," said Paul Kohlhoff on Monday. Following appeals for donations from his team, Kohlhoff assumes that the funding for participation is secured: "We would like to thank the many friends and fans who have supported us privately with donations, as well as the sponsors and partners who are helping us to realise our dream."

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At the same time, Kohlhoff reported that further talks with potential partners were still pending and that he expected "these to be successfully concluded in the short term". The crowdfunding campaign of Next Generation Team Germany ( here ) has so far raised 18,000 euros for the team. The team can also continue to be supported here.

Because participants in the Red Bull Youth America's Cup must be at least 19 but no older than 24, the German sailors who took part in the première were unable to make a second attempt. In addition to the skipper, the team members of the second German campaign are his brothers Max and Johann Kohlhoff as well as Fritz Waßner (all KYC), Phillip Kasüske and Fabian Graf (both VSaW), Tim Fischer (NRV), Magnus Simon (MSC) and Moritz Burmester (SVI). The Red Bull Youth America's Cup is regarded as a springboard for young talents towards the America's Cup. Eight participants from the premiere are now under contract with Cup teams.

Here are the teams nominated for the Red Bull Youth America's Cup:

1. Candidate Sailing Team (Austria)
2. Team BDA (Bermuda)
3. Youth Vikings Denmark (Denmark)
4. Team France Jeune (France)
5. Next Generation Team Germany (Germany)
6. Land Rover BAR Academy (Great Britain)
7. Kaijin Team Japan (Japan)
8. NZL Sailing Team (New Zealand)
9. Spanish Impuls Team (Spain)
10. Artemis Youth Racing (Sweden)
11. Team Tilt (Switzerland)
12. Next Generation USA (USA)