Photo: Cynthia Sinclair
Sixteen athletes have been chosen to represent the USA at the 2021 Youth Sailing World Championships in Al-Mussanah, Oman in December and one of them is Palisades resident Katharine Doble.
The 50th edition of the premier event in international youth sailing is Dec. 11-18 and Doble will vying for victory in the Female One Person Dinghy with an ILCA 6 sail. The event, open to athletes under the age of 19, was first .held in Sweden in 1971 and was last held in Gydnia, Poland in 2019, where 409 sailors from 66 nations competed.
“We’re excited to return to the Youth Worlds with a strong team after COVID-19 cancelled the 2020 event,” said Leandro Spina, Olympic Development Director. “We have new faces and new talent and we’ll be welcoming FormulaKite—a European kiteboarding company—to the lineup of classes for the first time.”
Doble lives in the Riviera neighborhood with her parents Hunter and Kristin. She participated in volleyball and track at St. Matthew’s and now attends Harvard-Westlake High, where runs cross country and track. In September, Doble took first place at the Pacific Coast Interscholastic Sailing Association Singlehanded District Championships in Long Beach, a two-day regatta comprised of 40 sailors from California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah.
A member of the California Yacht Club, Doble paired with Zoey Ziskind to win the U.S. Sailing Junior Women’s Doublehanded Championships in July 2019, taking first in a 33-boat national fleet. Three months before she won the Ken Hoover Memorial Regatta in Redondo Beach for the second straight year.
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