Yogev Alcalay is an Israeli sailor from Sdot Yam whose path to the Nacra 17 began with an unusually strong singlehanded youth career. He first tried sailing at a Sdot Yam Sailing Club summer camp in 2012 and quickly committed to the sport. By his mid-teens he was training intensively through the club and emerging internationally in the Laser pathway. His breakthrough came at the 2019 Laser 4.7 Youth European Championships in Hyères, France. Yogev won the boys’ championship outright as well as the Under-16 European title, finishing first among 267 competitors and winning four races across the series. Later that year he added an Under-16 bronze medal at the Laser 4.7 Youth World Championship in Kingston, Canada, where he finished 14th overall. As he moved up through the ILCA rigs, the results continued. Yogev finished 15th at the 2021 ILCA 6 Youth World Championship. In 2022 he took third overall at the ILCA 6 Youth European Championship in a 284-boat boys’ fleet, finished ninth at the ILCA 6 Youth World Championship, and then stepped into the ILCA 7 for the Under-21 World Championship, finishing 14th overall and recording a race win during the series. His transition into senior ILCA 7 racing put him against Olympic medalists and established international professionals. At the 2023 Senior European Championship he opened the event with a second-place finish in his qualifying fleet behind Olympic champion Matthew Wearn. In 2024 Yogev finished fifth at the ILCA 7 Under-21 European Championship in Mallorca, closing the regatta with a race win, and later placed 30th at the 2024 ILCA 7 Senior European Championship. He continued on the senior circuit in 2025, finishing 65th at the ILCA 7 Men’s World Championship in Qingdao and 40th at the Senior European Championship in Marstrand. That ILCA background now feeds directly into ISR36. Yogev crews for Mika Sternberg in the foiling Nacra 17 as they campaign toward the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games. ISR36’s objective is larger than a single regatta result: Israel has never competed in Olympic catamaran sailing, and the team is working to make LA 2028 the country’s first appearance in the discipline. Yogev brings championship experience, composure under pressure and a deep connection to Israeli sailing into the partnership. Yogev’s development also traces back to one of Israel’s most important sailing communities. Sdot Yam has produced generations of elite Israeli sailors, and it was there that he learned, trained and first represented Israel internationally. In 2026, ILCA also listed Yogev among the pre-registered coaches for the ILCA 6 Youth World Championships in Aarhus, adding a coaching role alongside his own Olympic campaign. From a European youth title and world-level podium success through senior ILCA 7 championships and now a foiling Olympic multihull campaign, Yogev’s career shows a sustained progression across classes rather than a single standout result. ISR36 gives that experience a new direction: applying years of one-design racing and international championship pressure to a two-person Nacra 17 campaign aimed at making Israeli Olympic sailing history in Los Angeles.