The Youth Match Racing World Championship joined the World Sailing family of events at the 2012 Annual Conference in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland.

The Championship will bring together the best youth match racers from around the world acknowledging their skills and offering a pathway to senior match racing competition.

In its fourth year, the Youth Match Racing Worlds has provided a pathway for the best young match racers to test themselves against the best in their age group. Joakim Aschenbrenner (DEN) claimed the inaugural title in 2014, followed by Sam Gilmour (AUS) in 2015 and Will Dargaville (AUS) in 2016.

The 2017 edition will be held out of the Balboa Yacht Club in Newport Beach, California, USA from 30 July to 5 August 2017.