PERTH 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships

Ian Campbell enjoyed success as a sailor at national and international level. A State Champion in Lasers, Solings, Etchells and Dragons. A National Champion in Etchells in 1986 as crew for Willy Packer, and 2nd place getter in the World Championships in the Soling Class in 1982. Ian and Willy were runners-up in the Olympic selection trials for Australia for the '84 Games. 

Ian now sails a Tasar with wife Brenda as crew, and a Laser, as well as being "pit crew" for children Edward who sails 420's, and Douglas and Sabrina who race Optimists.

He had a 35 year professional career as a Chartered Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers where he was a senior Partner and Managing Partner of Coopers & Lybrand in Western Australia.

Peter has served for over ten years as a member of the board of the Yachting Foundation of Western Australia. He is also a director of the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research and a member of the board of the Perth International Arts Festival.

Further, Peter was also a member of the board of the Perth International Arts Festival from 2002 to 2008.

As a longstanding member of Royal Perth Yacht Club Peter has been a social sailor for most of his life and currently sails an S80 from the club.

As an international sailor he has been involved in several America's Cup efforts, Peter competed in the America's Cup as skipper in 1987, 1992, 2000 and 2003 and was the head coach in 1995 and recently for the defending 2007 America's Cup team, Alinghi.

In his early years Peter won World Championships in the Two Ton Class, E22 Class and 12m Class, before becoming involved in the management and leadership of organisations. His travels have taken him to live and work for Australian, Japanese, American and Swiss sailing teams.

As a result of competing with his team YANMAR Racing on the Match Race circuit for over 25 years he has amassed four World Championships in Match Racing and won many events numerous times. Recently Peter and his family have returned to Perth to contribute locally through sport, business and the coaching of youth development.

He is the race advisor behind the Monsoon Cup in Malaysia, and was recently awarded the title of Dato' for his efforts in inspiring international goodwill towards Malaysia.

Sailing has been a large part of Skip's life and he has sailed in many International and National Championships.

Skip has sailed in three America's Cups and coached the Victory Challenge team in 2003 for his fourth Cup - 20 years after being winning the America's Cup with the AUSTRALIA II team in 1983.

He has been an active Etchells skipper for the past 18 years and current National and midwinter Australian Etchells champion.

For services to yachting Skip was awarded the Order of Australia (OAM) in 1984.

He was also awarded an Australian Sports Medal in 2000.

He is currently the Chairman of the Regatta committee of the Warren Jones International Youth Regatta and has been the Regatta Director of a number of major international match racing regattas, including the Monsoon Cup (Malaysia), Korea Match Cup and the top ranked Australian event the Sunseeker Australia Cup.

Skip was a member of the organising committee for the 1991 and 2006 Etchells World Championships off Fremantle.

Skip is the Vice President of the International Twelve Meter Class representing Oceania and also the Western Australian representative for team and match racing with Yachting Australia.

Ron has been a member of a number of industry advisory committees and has served on the Commercial Tribunal and on the Board of the Western Australian Maritime Museum.

On the sailing front Ron has completed seven Sydney Hobart races. He has also competed in the Newport Bermuda Race, the Trans Atlantic Race, the Fastnet Race, the Admiral's Cup 1973 the America's Cup in 1974, the Kenwood Cup in 1990, the America's Cup Jubilee 2001, the New York Yacht Club Sesquicentennial Regatta in 1994 and eight World Championships in the Soling, Etchells and Flying Fifteen Classes.

On the administration side of sailing Ron has been involved in all aspects of yacht club activities including serving as Commodore of Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club from 1994 - 1996. He has been President, Secretary and/or Treasurer of various class associations and was a member of the Organising Committee for the Etchells Class Australian Championships 1989, World Championships 1991, Australian Championships 1996 and the Royal Yacht Squadron Organising Committee for the America’s Cup Jubilee 2001.

He is currently a member of the Fremantle Sailing Club Board of Trustees.

He has maintained a long standing interest in sailing, mainly long distance cruising with occasional forays into inshore and offshore racing.

He has spent most of his working life in professional sport, serving as Marketing Manager of the America's Cup Defence in 1987, Director of Special Events at EventsCorp, General Manager of the Perth Wildcats and Marketing Manager of the Fremantle Football Club. Most recently he was the Chief Executive Officer of The Princess Margaret Hospital for Children Foundation.

He is Chairman of Trustees of the Warren Jones Foundation and a member of the Board of the St. Hilda's Anglican School for Girls Foundation.

He has also sat on the Boards of the Yachting Foundation of WA, Basketball WA, the Board of Rugby WA and he has been a Councillor of St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls.

The opportunity to give back to the sport came through the chance to set up a High Performance Sailing programme in Perth, Western Australia.

She is the Head Coach of the Sailing programme at the Western Australian Institute of Sport. The programme is now one of the best in Australia and is growing each year. Belinda has been able to pass on her experiences from being an athlete under the greatest 470 coach, Victor Kovalenko, and develop her coaching style and sailors.

She coached Belinda Kerl and Chelsea Hall from WA to a gold medal at the ISAF Youth World Championships in 2006, and continues to inspire and motivate athletes in WA to follow the Olympic dream and to be the best in the world at their sport. Belinda also worked with Elise Rechichi and Tessa Parkinson in the lead up to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, supporting Australian Sailing Team Head Coach Victor Kovalenko in coaching and mentoring the girls to their Gold Medal win.

Belinda continues to compete in sailing having changed to the windsurfer, competing at a national level in the Neil Pryde RS:X class.