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The Berthet Brothers: Norway's new 49er hope | Bearing on Sailing
15 de mayo de 2026 · 28 min · 130 vistas · Palma, Mallorca
Sailors racing 49er skiff under bright skies in Palma
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Brothers Mathias and Marcus Berthet sail the 49er for the Norwegian national team, competing toward the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.Watch Interviewed at the Palma World Cup ahead of the season opener, they describe their first full season together in 2023: they qualified for the gold fleet at every major event, including a 24th at Palma, 11th at Hyères, and a sixth-place finish at one regatta, capping the year by reaching the gold fleet at the World Championship.2:43 Their 2024 target is the World Championship in Copenhagen in May, which ends on Norway's national day, 17 May — a course with family ties, as their father sailed for France in the 1990s and relatives live nearby.4:43 The brothers began in Optimist dinghies at Ula Brann on Bygdøy, competed at Optimist World Championships, and won a silver medal at Youth Worlds in their first 49er season.10:02 Both are completing bachelor's and master's degrees — Markus at Handelsskolen in Bergen, Mathias at NTNU in Trondheim — while managing their campaign's logistics, finances, and sponsorship as an independent operation.22:11 They discuss the challenge of attracting private sponsorship in Norway and cite SailGP and the America's Cup as models for making sailing legible to outside audiences.27:32
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