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: 31st May 2024 | |||
| MNA | Race Official Name | Status | Year Applied |
| JPN | Takao Otani | International Judge | 1988 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Shigeru Fujii | International Measurer | 2017 |
| IND | Ajit Diaz | International Measurer – 420 | 2019 |
| International Measurer – IQFOIL | 2023 | ||
| CHN | Guangda ‘David’ Zhou | International Measurer | 2023 |
| HKG | Howie Suen | ILCA | 2023 |
| JPN | Akira Shimizu | International Classifier | 2016 |
| JPN | Yoshiaki Yamada | International Classifier | 2023 |