Max Maeder

Maximilian Maeder
Maeder in 2024
Personal information
Nationality Singapore
Born (2006-09-12) 12 September 2006 (age 18)
Singapore
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Weight91 kg (201 lb)[1]
Sport
CountrySingapore
Rank1 (September 3, 2024)
EventMen's Kite
Coached byJohn Dolenc
Medal record
Men's Formula Kite
Representing  Singapore
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games - – 1
World Championships 2 1 –
Asian Games 1 - –
European Championships 2 - -
Asian Championships 4 1 -
Youth Sailing World Championships 3 - -
Youth World Championships 4 - -
KiteFoil World Series 5 1 -
Total 21 3 1
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Paris Formula Kite
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2024 Hyères Formula Kite[2]
Gold medal – first place 2023 The Hague Formula Kite[3]
Silver medal – second place 2022 Cagliari Formula Kite[4]
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2022 Hangzhou Formula Kite
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Nafpaktos Open
Gold medal – first place 2021 Montpellier Open
Asian Championships
Gold medal – first place 2024 Daishan Open
Silver medal – second place 2023 Shenzhen Open[5]
Gold medal – first place 2022 Pattaya Open[6]
Gold medal – first place 2019 Beihai Asian[7]
Gold medal – first place 2018 Zhuhai Asian
Pan American Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 São Luís Open[8]
Youth Sailing World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Búzois Formula Kite[9]
Gold medal – first place 2022 The Hague Formula Kite[10]
Gold medal – first place 2021 Mussanah Formula Kite[11]
IKA Youth World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Hang Loose U21 & U19[12]
Gold medal – first place 2022 Torregrande U21[13]
Gold medal – first place 2021 Hang Loose U19[14]
Gold medal – first place 2019 Pascucci U19[15]
KiteFoil World Series
Gold medal – first place 2024 Traunsee Formula Kite
Gold medal – first place 2023 Zhuhai Formula Kite[16]
Gold medal – first place 2023 Cagliari Formula Kite[17]
Gold medal – first place 2023 Traunsee Formula Kite[18]
Silver medal – second place 2022 Traunsee Formula Kite[19]
Gold medal – first place 2021 Fuerteventura Formula Kite[20]

Maximilian Maeder[a] OLY (born 12 September 2006) is a Singaporean Formula Kite professional athlete.[22] He is the reigning Formula Kite World, Asiad, Asian and European champion. He holds the distinction of being the youngest winner in any Olympic sailing class competition, achieving this at the age of 16.[23]

Maeder competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the inaugural Men's Formula Kite event, where he reached the finals and won the bronze medal, becoming the country's second native-born Olympic medalist.[24] Maeder is also a three-time youth world sailing champion in consecutive years from 2021 to 2023[25] and won various open championships across Europe, Asia and Pan America.[26] Since the 2021 European Championships, he has consistently secured podium finishes in every competition he has entered.

  1. ^ a b "Maximilian Maeder - Forward Wip". Forward Wip. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  2. ^ https://www.formulakite.org/2024worlds
  3. ^ https://thehague2023.sailing.org/results-centre/
  4. ^ https://www.formulakite.org/2022worlds
  5. ^ https://www.sail-world.com/news/269195/2023-Formula-Kite-Asia-and-Oceania-Championships
  6. ^ https://www.sail-world.com/news/247223/Formula-Kite-NFDS-Asia-Pacific-Championships
  7. ^ https://www.sail-world.com/news/218006/Formula-Kite-Asian-Championships-overall
  8. ^ https://www.formulakite.org/2022panamericans
  9. ^ https://www.sail-world.com/news/269827/2023-Youth-Sailing-Worlds-overall
  10. ^ https://sailing-news.com/news/en/permanent/55985/1-55982-1-0-world-sailing-youth-world-championship-2022-den-haag-ned-day-4.html
  11. ^ https://www.sail-world.com/news/244895/Youth-Sailing-Worlds-in-Oman-overall
  12. ^ https://www.formulakite.org/2023youthworlds
  13. ^ https://www.formulakite.org/2022YouthWorlds
  14. ^ https://www.flickr.com/photos/kiteclasses/51328414334/in/album-72157719575048834
  15. ^ https://flysurfer.com/2019/05/formula-kite-world-championships-2019-italy/
  16. ^ https://www.sail-world.com/news/269422/KiteFoil-World-Series-Final-in-Zhuhai-overall
  17. ^ https://www.sail-world.com/news/267775/Kitefoil-World-Series-Italy-overall
  18. ^ https://www.sail-world.com/news/267566/2023-KiteFoil-World-Series-Austria-overall
  19. ^ https://www.sail-world.com/news/250512/KiteFoil-World-Series-Traunsee-overall
  20. ^ https://kitefoilworldseries.com/events/results/2021-season/2021-act-4-fuerteventura
  21. ^ Zhang, Qianxue; Low, Ken (13 August 2024). "墨士廉外公：让他先尽情跟大家分享快乐 我们会在家等着他" [Max Maeder's grandfather: Let him share his happiness with everyone first, we will wait for him at home]. Lianhe Zaobao. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
  22. ^ "Maximilian Maeder Sailing.Org Profile". World Sailing. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
  23. ^ Cite error: The named reference asiadgold was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  24. ^ "Max Maeder: An athlete for four seasons". World Sailing. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
  25. ^ "16-year-old Singapore kitefoiler Maximilian Maeder crowned world champion". Channel News Asia. 19 August 2023. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
  26. ^ "Results". World Sailing. Retrieved 24 August 2023.


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