Sailing World Championships

Olympic qualification event

For a list of all World championships contested in the sport of sailing, see World championships in sailing.

Sailing World Championships

First held| 2003 (2003)
Classes| 470, 49er, 49er FX, Finn, Laser, Laser Radial, Nacra 17, RS:X
Website| Sailing.org

The Sailing World Championships (formerly ISAF Sailing World Championships) are World championships in sailing for the 10 events contested at the Summer Olympics, organized by World Sailing (formerly ISAF) and held every four years since 2003. In contrast to other years, when each class organise their World championship under supervision of World Sailing, they are the combined World championships for all the disciplines of the next Summer Olympics and serves as the major qualification event for it.

## History

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In 1998, the ISAF World Sailing Championships were held in Dubai. The ISAF Sailing World Championships was held in Cádiz in 2003, followed by Cascais in 2007 and Perth in 2011.[1]

In 2014, Santander hosted the 4th ISAF Sailing World Championships attracting more than 1,100 competitors, which distributed half of qualifications for the 2016 Summer Olympics sailing event.[1]

The 2018 edition, in Aarhus, Denmark, saw the introduction of Formula Kite classes.[2] The 2023 event, orginially scheduled for 2002, took place in The Hague, the Netherlands.[3] The 2023 edition saw the introduction of para classes.[4]

For the edition before the 2028 Summer Olympics, World Sailing decided to split the event into one championship for one-person events and one for two-person events, with the 2026 event awarded to Valencia, Spain, and the 2027 event awarded to Gdynia, Poland.[5]

## Editions

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2011

2027

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Host cities of the Sailing World Championships

Year | City | Country | Dates | Events | Athletes | Nations | Notes

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2003 | Cádiz |  Spain | 11–24 September | 11 | 1,450 | 71 | [6]
2007 | Cascais |  Portugal | 28 June – 13 July | 11 | 1,350 | 76 | [7]
2011 | Perth |  Australia | 3–18 December | 10 | 789 | 76 | [8]
2014 | Santander |  Spain | 8–21 September | 10 | 1,250 | 83 | [9]
2018 | Aarhus |  Denmark | 30 July – 12 August | 12 | 1,500 | 100 | [10]
2023 | The Hague |  Netherlands | 10–20 August | 14 | 1,100 | 80 | [11]
2027 | Fortaleza |  Brazil |  |  |  |  | [12]

2003

2007

2014

2018

2023

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European hosts of the Sailing World Championships

## Equipment

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Event | Class | Gender | Year

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| 03 | 07 | 11 | 14 | 18 | 23
One-person dinghies | Europe | W | ● |  |  |  |  |
Finn | M | ● |  | ● | ● | ● |
O |  | ● |  |  |  |
Laser | M |  | ● | ● | ● | ● | ●
O | ● |  |  |  |  |
Laser Radial | W |  | ● | ● | ● | ● | ●
Two-person dinghies | 470 | M | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
W | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
Mx |  |  |  |  |  | ●
49er | M |  |  | ● | ● | ● | ●
O | ● | ● |  |  |  |
49er FX | W |  |  |  | ● | ● | ●
Keelboats | Star | M | ● | ● | ● |  |  |
Yngling | W | ● | ● |  |  |  |
Multihulls | Nacra 17 | Mx |  |  |  | ● | ● | ●
Tornado | O | ● | ● |  |  |  |
Boards | Formula Kite | M |  |  |  |  | Demo | ●
W |  |  |  |  | Demo | ●
Mistral | M | ● |  |  |  |  |
W | ● |  |  |  |  |
RS:X | M |  | ● | ● | ● | ● |
W |  | ● | ● | ● | ● |
iQFoil | M |  |  |  |  |  | ●
W |  |  |  |  |  | ●
Match racing | Elliott 6m | W |  |  | ● |  |
Disabled | Norlin Mk3 | O |  |  |  |  |  | ●
Hansa 303 | M |  |  |  |  |  | ●
W |  |  |  |  |  | ●
RS Connect | O |  |  |  |  |  | ●
Total | 11 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 10

Legend: M – Men; W – Women; Mx – Mixed; O – Open;

## All-time medal table

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As of 19th May 2024
Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Netherlands| 10| 7| 2| 19
2|  France| 8| 5| 7| 20
3|  Australia| 8| 4| 7| 19
4|  Great Britain| 6| 8| 14| 28
5|  United States| 4| 1| 3| 8
6|  Brazil| 4| 1| 0| 5
7|  Poland| 3| 5| 0| 8
8|  Spain| 3| 4| 4| 11
9|  Israel| 3| 1| 4| 8
10|  Italy| 3| 1| 3| 7
11|  Japan| 2| 2| 1| 5
12|  Hungary| 2| 0| 0| 2
13|  New Zealand| 1| 5| 3| 9
14|  Germany| 1| 3| 3| 7
15|  Sweden| 1| 3| 1| 5
16|  Belgium| 1| 2| 1| 4
Croatia| 1| 2| 1| 4
18|  Austria| 1| 2| 0| 3
19|  Greece| 1| 1| 1| 3
Portugal| 1| 1| 1| 3
21|  Norway| 1| 1| 0| 2
22|  Belarus| 1| 0| 0| 1
Cyprus| 1| 0| 0| 1
Singapore| 1| 0| 0| 1
25|  Denmark| 0| 2| 4| 6
26|  Finland| 0| 2| 0| 2
Switzerland| 0| 2| 0| 2
28|  Argentina| 0| 1| 2| 3
29|  Russia| 0| 1| 1| 2
Slovenia| 0| 1| 1| 2
31|  Canada| 0| 0| 1| 1
China| 0| 0| 1| 1
Estonia| 0| 0| 1| 1
Ukraine| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (34 entries)| 68| 68| 68| 204

## See also

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* Olympic sailing classes
* Sailing at the Summer Olympics
* World championships in sailing
* Windsurfing World Championships

## References

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1. ^ a b "Background". sailing.org.
2. ^ "Day #4 Morning Report - Aarhus Sailing World Championships 2018". World Sailing.
3. ^ "The Hague to become sailing capital in 2023".
4. ^ "2023 Allianz Sailing World Championships in the Hague hailed as inspirational and historic".
5. ^ "World Sailing announces hosts of the new-format 2026-2027 World Sailing Championships". World Sailing.
6. ^ "ISAF Sailing World Championships 2003". sailing.org.
7. ^ "ISAF Sailing World Championships 2007". sailing.org.
8. ^ "Perth 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships". sailing.org.
9. ^ "2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships". sailing.org.
10. ^ "Hempel Sailing World Championships Aarhus 2018". sailing.org.
11. ^ "2023 Allianz Sailing World Championships in The Hague hailed as "inspirational and historic"". sailing.org.
12. ^ "World Sailing - Fortaleza selected to host 2027 World Sailing Championships one-person events". World Sailing. Retrieved 17 July 2025.

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* See also: World cups

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