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Paul GoodisonSkipper & Starboard HelmOlympic gold and bronze medallist in the Laser class, and three-time back-to-back winner of the International Moth World Championship in 2016, 2017 and 2018, Paul skippers Tudor Team Alinghi after three campaigns starting with the British in 2017 and then two campaigns in 2021 and 2024 with the American Team. Known for his highly technical and methodical approach to the discipline of foiling, Paul steers from the starboard helming position and skippers the team.
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Phil RobertsonPort HelmPhil Robertson joins Tudor Team Alinghi as an alternate helmsman to skipper Paul Goodison and is a former two-time World Match Racing Tour Champion as well as being a training partner and match-racing coach for Tudor Team Alinghi in 2024. Foiling is his expertise with the Moth class, A Class catamaran and Kite Foil being his training tools and is currently skipper of the Italian SailGP Team. He has branched out to endurance sports as cross training and provides expertise through broadcast and was a TVNZ presenter during the 36th America’s Cup, as well as a New Zealand Herald columnist.
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Pietro SibelloTrimmerPietro started sailing at the age of eight in the class Optimist class before moving through the youth ranks, eventually to the 470 class. In 1998, with his brother, he started sailing 49ers and in four years became one of best helmsmen in the world, winning a European Championship and three bronze medals in the World Championships. After the Olympic Games in Athens (2004) and Beijing (2008), his results allow the Italian team to qualify for London 2012. Pietro was a high-performance coach for the Swiss team in the last America’s Cup in 2024 in Barcelona, and prior to that was a member of the Luna Rossa Team in 2021. He is now an integral part of the Tudor Team Alinghi sailing team and can both trim and helm.
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Nico RolazTrimmerThe 2014 Optimist World Champion and U21 ILCA7 World Champion. Known throughout the team as the ‘Swiss Army Knife’ because he can do every role both on the boat and shoreside, Nicolas was one of the rising stars of the Swiss team in the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup in Barcelona. Nicolas Rolaz began sailing at the age of eight and says it’s the freedom of being on the water that first attracted him to the sport. All of Nicolas’ success almost passed him by. “I was about to quit sailing when I was 13, I just didn’t like it anymore,” he explained. “Thanks to my parents, who pushed me to continue in the sport, one year later I was crowned world champion. That’s why it means so much to be part of this team, it shows me that the hard work of the previous years paid off!” Nicolas added. Away from the water, Nicolas other interests include cycling, cars, coffee, wine and watches, he also jokes that he’d “Like to be able to grow a beard!”
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Bryan MettrauxTrimmerBryan Mettraux has been on the water since he was one year old and has been regularly sailing ever since. Although Bryan has been a part of Alinghi since 2019, he first became known to the team at the age of 14 when he was invited on board the D35 to follow a training session. Bryan loved being on the water but was also interested in technical drawings and architecture and turned to an apprenticeship as a shipbuilder at Philippe Durr's shipyard. In parallel, he earned his spurs in preparing boats at the Centre d'Entraînement à la Régate (CER). What followed were successful seasons as bowman and sail trimmer for the Realteam and Tilt teams. Bryan won two Swiss Match Racing Championship titles, two wins at the D35 Trophy (2012 and 2015), a victory in the amateur ranking on the Tour de France à la voile (2012) and many more. Bryan has also been crowned the GC32 World Champion in both 2018 and 2019. Bryan has been lucky enough to sail with his brother and sisters professionally and says it’s one of his favourite things to have done, and away from working, he enjoys sports in general and astrophysics.
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Jann ShupbachTrimmerJann Schüpbach is one of the emerging Swiss talents who has progressed through Alinghi’s youth pathway into the senior TUDOR Team Alinghi sailing squad for the Louis Vuitton 38th America’s Cup. Born on 4 December 2000 and from Thun, Switzerland, he grew up sailing on Lake Thun and represents the Thunersee Yachtclub and Regattaclub Oberhofen. Jann began sailing on his family’s small boat in the Swiss Alps before moving into the Optimist, where he achieved national and international podium finishes. He subsequently progressed through the 420 and 470 classes, including an Olympic campaigning phase, before increasingly concentrating on high-performance foiling. That move proved particularly successful. Schüpbach became an accomplished WASZP, International Moth and Persico 69F sailor, establishing himself in the new generation of Swiss foiling specialists. Among his most significant achievements was finishing top of the overall 69F season ranking in 2023; he had also won the 69F Bacardi Cup in Miami in 2022 and subsequently recorded podium finishes at major 69F events.
His America’s Cup breakthrough came when he was selected for the Alinghi Red Bull Racing Youth Team for the 2024 UniCredit Youth America’s Cup in Barcelona. The team subsequently appointed the then 23-year-old as skipper, sharing helming duties with Arnaud Grange. Switzerland ultimately finished sixth in its qualifying group, but Schüpbach's campaign provided extensive experience racing the foiling AC40 and working inside a full-scale America’s Cup operation. Importantly, his development was not confined to sailing. During the Barcelona campaign he worked within Alinghi's electronics department, gaining practical experience with the technology, data and preparation behind the AC75 programme. He even interrupted his law studies to take advantage of the opportunity.
Following Barcelona, Schüpbach continued competing extensively in the International Moth, including World Championships in Manly and Lake Garda. His progression was rewarded in August 2026, when TUDOR Team Alinghi confirmed that he had stepped up from the youth pathway into its senior America’s Cup team for the Naples 2027 campaign.
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Laurane MettrauxTrimmerLaurane Mettraux is a highly experienced Swiss professional sailor from Geneva, born on 3 August 1992. Part of the celebrated Mettraux sailing family, she grew up sailing on Lake Geneva and developed into a versatile inshore, offshore and high-performance sailor. Her career has included the Women’s World Match Racing Tour, Tour de France à la Voile, GC32, TF35, Ocean Fifty and SailGP, where she represented Switzerland aboard the foiling F50.
Mettraux was selected as a trimmer for Alinghi Red Bull Racing in the inaugural Puig Women’s America’s Cup in Barcelona in 2024 and returned to the Swiss America’s Cup programme with Tudor Team Alinghi in August 2026. She also returned to top-level women’s match racing with Pauline Courtois’ team, which won the 2024 Women’s Match Racing World Championship.
At 34, she brings extensive multihull, foiling and match-racing experience to the Swiss programme.