Fast Company: Martine Grael on Joining the SailGP Elite

After a lifetime of Olympic campaigning and high-performance sailing, Martine Grael was ready for something different—and SailGP was waiting.

Fast Company: Martine Grael on Joining the SailGP Elite
Image © Felix Diemer for SailGP

As a two-time 49erFX Olympic gold medalist, Grael is used to tight starts, high speeds, and sailing at the edge of human and technological performance. But when she stepped into the role of helm for the brand-new Mubadala Brazil SailGP Team, she wasn’t just joining another fleet—she was stepping into a whole new world.

“It was the right time,” she says. “I had just come out of Olympic campaigning, and this was a project I was very happy to take on.”

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