CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard Sailing rising sophomore Jacob Posner was part of a boat that today captured the 2026 Youth Match Racing World Championship. The regatta was contested from June 22-25, in Middlefart, Denmark.
 
Posner crewed along with Kelly Holthus, Cam Spriggs and Alice Schmid on the only American boat in the 12-team field. Morgan Pinckney, meanwhile, served as skipper.
 
After round-robin competition was complete, Posner's boat found itself in third place with an 8-3 mark, which was also equaled by four other teams. The Daniel Kemp-led Australian entry was 9-2.
 
Posner and his American teammates breezed through the quarterfinals and semifinals, earning 3-0 decisions over Great Britain and France, respectively. The 2-0 performance set up a final with Kemp and the Australians.
 
With the championship on the line, the two teams needed five races to decide the winner. After dropping the first race, the U.S. claimed the next two, only to fall in Race 4, which knotted the best-of-five series at 2-2. Then in the fifth-and-deciding contest, Posner and Co., emerged with the victory and world youth crown.
 
Posner recently finished one of the best first years in program history. The Seattle, Washington native helped the Crimson capture its third ICSA Open Team Race National Championship in the last four years and was named to the NEISA Open Crew First Team, garnered NEISA Open Rookie-of-the-Year accolades, and was an ICSA All-America Crew selection.