Name: Luke Muller
Sport: Sailing
Event(s): Finn (One-Person Heavyweight Dinghy)
Height: 6-3
DOB: 3/14/1996
Birthplace: Fort Pierce, Fla.
Hometown: Fort Pierce, Fla.
College: Stanford University
Team/Club: St. Francis Yacht Club
Coach(es): Luther Carpenter
Olympic Experience
- One-time Olympian (2020)
- Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, 13th overall
World Championship Experience
- Most recent: 2021 – 6th (finn)
- Years of participation: 2019, 2020, 2021
- Medals: 2 (2 bronzes)
- Bronze – 2020 (finn); 2019 (finn)
Youth Olympic Games Experience
- 1st, Laser Radial, US Youth Championships (Corpus Christi, USA, 2013)
Other Career Highlights
- Stanford Sailing Team Captain (2016-17)
- 3rd, Finn, Hempel World Cup Series Miami (Miami, USA) 2019
- 1st overall and line honors, TP52 (Spookie), Miami to Havana Race, set course record - 17.3 hours, 2018
- 1st overall and line honors, TP52 (Spookie), Ida Lewis Distance Race (Newport, RI) 2018
- 4th, Finn, SWC Series - Round 1, Miami (Miami, USA), 2017
Personal:
Has one older sister, Meredith, one older brother, Phillip, and one younger brother Nicolas - all of which are involved at the highest level of the sport...Grew up surfing and windsurfing in Florida until he started sailing when his sister started a high school sailing team...Switched to the Finn class before his first year at Stanford and steadily climbed through the rankings...Enjoys road biking, kite foiling, surfing and free diving...Owns a retro conversion van that sometimes lives out of during long training blocks in the State...When he’s not sailing he works as a sailor/grinder for the New York Yacht Club's America's Cup syndicate - American Magic
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