Tim Kröger

About Tim Kröger

Tim Kröger is one of the most prominent and successful sailors in Germany. The experienced athlete has over 25 years of competitive sailing experience: in 1983, ‘Timmy’ won the Admiral’s Cup as a crew member with the German team.

After a very successful round-the-world sailing race, Kröger made his passion his profession in the mid-1990s and became a professional sailor – at that time an absolute rarity in German sailing. In 1995, Kröger won the world championship title in the Admiral’s Cup class Mumm 36 as a crew member on the French Corum Watches. This was followed by further international engagements. In the Whitbread Round the World Race 1997/98, Kröger’s second circumnavigation, he and his team finished in third place. He processed his experiences from this race in the book “Abgerechnet wird im Ziel”.

From 2001 to 2003, Kröger served as Boat Captain and member of the sailing team for the French America’s Cup campaign Le Defí, reaching the quarter-finals in the Louis Vuitton Cup, the challenger round for the 31st Cup duel. He then participated as watch leader and strategist on the then largest German racing yacht Uca in the DaimlerChrysler North Atlantic Challenge. Uca crossed the Atlantic as the fastest yacht. Kröger completed his 10th Fastnet anniversary on Skandia set Sail, Ellen MacArthur’s former Kingfisher.

In the summer of 2010, Tim Kröger led a complex sports project for Audi AG, where a team of nine sailing-enthusiast amateurs (Audi customers) and six professionals participated together on a TP52 racing yacht as the Audi A1 Team in the German championship in offshore sailing during Kiel Week. The collaboration between professionals and amateurs worked so well after a short joint training under the guidance of the professionals that the German championship title could be won.

Whether in the Audi MedCup, as skipper of the successful Kiel Week project “Audi – A Dream comes true”, as a seminar leader for skipper training with Europe’s leading sailing magazine Yacht, or as a coach for German racing crews – Tim Kröger is among the most experienced German sailing professionals.

In 2011, he won, among other things, the long-distance classic around Gotland, and in 2012, the team led by skipper Tim Kröger secured second place in the new long-distance classic Nord Stream Race on the route from St. Petersburg to Greifswald.

After 2013, Kröger will participate for the third time with his handpicked professional team in the Nord Stream Race in May 2014.

In addition to his sailing activities, the world and German champion works as an author and TV commentator.

The sailor is also a sought-after and experienced speaker who provides an informative, innovative, and entertaining bridge between entrepreneurship and team sports at corporate incentives, trade fairs, manager training sessions, and other high-profile events.