The Star class team with Marc Pickel (left) and Ingo Borkowski.
The two German top-class sailors Marc Aurel Pickel and Ingo Borkowski have been crossing each other’s ways for a long time. The helmsman from Kiel Yacht Club (KYC) and the crew from Sport club Berlin-Gruenau (YCBG) then both became part of the Aerosail team in the early 90ties, and as part of the German crew, they won the Sardinia Cup for offshore sailors off the island of Sardinia in 1994. Then Pickel already switched to the Star, while Borkowski joined the last of the three-handed keel boat crews of Jochen Schuemann, Germany’s most successful sailor.
In 2004, Pickel and Borkowski threw their lots together when Borkowski decided to join Pickel’s Olympic campaign as crew. With a “near miss” qualification for the Athens games, the two sailors have “unfinished business” to do and they are all set on achieving Olympic merits.
The Star class team with Marc Pickel (left) and Ingo Borkowski.
Joint successes
2007
9th at the European Championship, Melcesine, Italy
9th at the PreOlympics, Qingdao, China
7th at the World Championship, Cascais, Portugal
4th at the Kiel Week
5th at the Breitling Regatta, Medemblik, Netherlands
7th at the Eastern Hemisphere Championship, El Arenal, Spain
2nd at the Princess Sofia Trophy, Palma, Spain
2006
4th at the North American Championships, Miami, USA
10th at the World Championships, San Francisco, USA
Top selection for the 2008 Olympics
11th at European Championships, Neustadt/Holstein, Germany
2nd at Cascais Open Sailing Week, Portugal
4th at Kiel Week, Germany
2nd at Bacardi Cup, Miami, USA
2004
First start-up of Star class team Pickel/Borkowski
sponsored by pinta racing
10th at European Championships, L’Escala, Spain
18th at World Championships, Gaeta, Italy
Qualified Germany as a nation for the 2004 Olympics,
unfortunately without meeting national nomination criteria
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