Race Officials In Asia

Race Officials In Asia
International Race Officer Mohd Afendy Abdullah ready to start the race © Ajay Narang

Race Officials mission is to ensure quality, integrity and consistency for all participants in the sport of sailboat racing, from casual weeknight club racing to world championships. They are trained, certified and supported by World Sailing, and they have the resources of the organization at their disposal. Race officials are sailors like you who volunteer their time because they enjoy the work and because they believe in the importance of giving back to the sport.

What Do Race Officials Do?

Race Officials support you, the racing sailor, in their roles as Race Officers, Judges, Umpires and Classifiers. They run races, make umpire calls on the water, hear protests and redress requests in the jury room, and classify sailors to compete in disabled sailing events.

Race Officials in Asia

The following individuals from Asia have been appointed as Race Officials by World Sailing, the governing body for the sport worldwide.

Updated: 18th Nov 2023
MNA Race Official Name Status Year Applied
JPN Takao Otani International Judge 1988
SGP Tan Tee Suan International Judge 1989
HKG Tom Sheppard International Judge 1991
THA Rut Subniran International Judge 1998
JPN Katsumi Shibanuma International Judge 1998
JPN Katsuya Hashiba International Judge 2001
MAS Leonard Chin International Judge 2006
SGP Selvam Mookken International Judge 2007
CHN Gu Xinzu (“John”) International Judge 2008
SGP Teo Wee Tee International Judge 2009
SGP Teo Wee Lee International Judge 2009
JPN Noboru Maesono International Judge 2010
CHN Shao Xianli International Judge 2011
CHN Qu Chun International Judge 2011
JPN Masaaki Tanaka International Judge 2011
JPN Kai Masuda International Judge 2013
KOR Jeong Sungchul International Judge 2013
IND Gurvinderpal Julka International Judge 2014
JPN Kiyoshi Tomimatsu International Judge 2015
CHN Lu Qidong (“Tony”) International Judge 2015
SGP Jerrold Ng International Judge 2018
HKG Ben Harding International Judge 2019
IND Satish Kanwar International Judge 2022
CHN Zuoru Jiang International Judge 2023
PAK Abdur Rehman Arshad International Race Officer 1996
PHI Jeremy Rollin International Race Officer 2005
THA Simon James International Race Officer 2010
CHN Lu Qidong (“Tony”) International Race Officer 2011
JPN Akira Okada International Race Officer 2012
MAS Mohd Afendy Abdullah International Race Officer 2012
SGP Jerrold Ng International Race Officer 2014
HKG Charlie Manzoni International Race Officer 2015
TPE Ting Kuo International Race Officer 2018
IND Chandra Shekar Dalai International Race Officer 2019
IND Satish Kanwar International Race Officer 2019
IND Srikanth Chaturvedi Thimiti International Race Officer 2019
HKG Brenda Davies International Race Officer 2020
JPN Shinichi Uchida International Race Officer 2020
SGP Jonathan Kwek International Race Officer 2020
CHN Zhou Liang (“Leon”) International Race Officer 2021
CHN Lv Yiliang International Race Officer 2021
JPN Masaaki Tanaka International Umpire 2005
IND Abhimanyu Patankar International Umpire 2014
KOR Jeong Sungchul International Umpire 2016
JPN Kohei Imazu International Umpire 2018
HKG David Fan International Umpire 2018
KOR Hyo-Kyung Jang International Measurer – OPT 1998
SGP Aileen Loo International Measurer – ILCA 2012
JPN Kazuyuki Higashijima International Measurer – 470 2014
HKG Patrick Lam International Measurer – 420 2017
JPN Tetsutaro Muramatsu International Measurer – OPT 2017
IND Ajit Diaz International Measurer – 420 2017
International Measurer – RSX 2019
International Measurer – IQFOIL 2023
HKG Howie Suen ILCA 2023
JPN Yoshiaki Yamada International Classifier 2023