SailGP Team Switzerland
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- Official Team Name
- Switzerland SailGP Team
- Team Nickname
- Switzerland / Eiger
- Boat Name
- Eiger
- CEO
- Boet Brinkgreve
- Driver
- Sébastien Schneiter
- Key Crew:
- Arnaud Psarofaghis (Wing Trimmer), Bryan Mettraux (Flight Controller), Maud Jayet (Strategist), Matt Gotrel (Grinder) and Stewart Dodson (Grinder)
- Coach
- Javi Torres, Bernie Cortes
- Ownership
- Swiss investor consortium including Firmenich family, led by Schneiter family’s Team Tilt
- Established:
- 2021 (Season 3 entry)
History in the league:
January 2023 – Take first ever race win in Season 3 in Singapore, finishing the event fourth overall.
July 2024 – Regular back-of-fleet finishes throughout Season 4, finish championship in last place.
January 2025 – Claim first race win of Season 5 in Auckland, proving they can compete in heavy conditions on the new T-foils.
May 2025 – Appoint new CEO Boet Brinkgreve.
July 2025 – First ever podium finish at the Portsmouth final, finishing third after hydraulic failure ended realistic shot at winning.
September 2025 – Achieve second podium finish in front of a home crowd on Lake Geneva, third behind Germany and Australia.
From last place to legitimate threat – that’s been Switzerland’s rollercoaster ride since they joined the league in Season 3. After finishing stone-cold last in Season 4, the Swiss tore up the playbook, drafted in new talent, and appointed a new CEO in Boet Brinkgreve to set about proving the doubters wrong.
This shake-up at the start of Season 5 introduced Arnaud Psarofaghis and Bryan Mettraux to the team fresh off their America’s Cup campaign with Alinghi, bringing high-speed foiling expertise and big boat decision-making under pressure. Stewart Dodson came across from Spain as a Season 4 champion who’d already won the whole thing, and Matt Gotrel left Team GBR to add Olympic rowing gold and serious power to Eiger as second grinder. Suddenly Schneiter – three-time 49er Olympian who’d been learning on the job through some bruising apprentice seasons – had a crew with the credentials to deliver when the pressure was on.
The result? Two podium finishes – their first ever in Portsmouth, then another on home waters in Geneva – and flashes of front-running pace that suggest this crew could eventually gatecrash the top tier. Portsmouth was particularly cruel: despite a storming start and a historic win in reach, an unexpected hydraulic failure mid-race forced them to retire early, putting them third behind the Kiwis and Brits.
But consistency remains the Swiss Achilles' heel. Sandwiched around that Lake Geneva triumph were dead-last finishes in Saint-Tropez and Cádiz, the kind of results that remind everyone this is still very much a work in progress. They finished Season 5 in eighth overall – a marked step up from last season's wooden spoon, but nowhere near the top-three shootout.
The crew returns unchanged for Season 6, which signals confidence in the existing formula rather than panic about the inconsistency. The question is whether they can take the next step and become genuine, week-in week-out threats, or whether they'll remain the nearly team that can win races but can't quite string together full events.
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