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List Of Olympic Medalists In Sailing By Class
This is a list of Olympic medalists in sailing. Current classes List of Olympic medalists in sailing by class Open 470 Men's 470 Women's 470 49er 49er FX Men’s Kite Coming soon Women’s Kite Coming soon Laser Laser Radial Nacra 17 Discontinued classes International Metre Rule 5.5 Metre 6 Metre 7 Metre 8 Metre 10 Metre 12 Metre 6.5 Metre 12' Dinghy 12 Square meter Sharpie 18' Dinghy Finn Skerry cruiser 30m2 Skerry cruiser 40m2 Skerry cruiser Division II Dragon Elliott 6m Europe Firefly Flying Dutchman Monotype Lechner A-390 Mistral One Design O-Jolle Men's RS:X Women's RS:X Snowbird Soling Star Swallow Tempest Ton Classes 0 to .5 ton .5 to 1 ton 1 to 2 ton 2 to 3 ton 3 to 10 ton 10 to 20 ton 20+ ton Open class Tornado Windglider Yngling References * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sailing (sport)
The sport of sailing involves a variety of competitive sailing formats that are sanctioned through various sailing federations and yacht clubs. Racing disciplines include matches within a fleet of sailing craft, between a pair thereof or among teams. Additionally, there are specialized competitions that include setting speed records. Racing formats include both closed courses and point-to-point contests; they may be in sheltered waters, coast-wise or on the open ocean. Most competitions are held within defined classes or ratings that either entail one type of sailing craft to ensure a contest primarily of skill or rating the sailing craft to create classifications or handicaps. On water, a sailing competition among multiple vessels is a regatta, which usually consists of multiple individual races, where the boat crew that performs best in over the series of races is the overall winner. There is a broad variety of kinds of races and sailboats used for racing from large yacht to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Doreste
Luis Doreste Blanco (born 7 March 1961 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas) is a Spanish sailor who won gold medal both in the 1984 Summer Olympics (470 (dinghy), 470 class), and in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona (Flying Dutchman (dinghy), Flying Dutchman). A member of Real Club Náutico de Gran Canaria, Doreste became World Champion in 1985 (Flying Dutchman), and again in 1995 (Soling). He is three times European Champion, from 1976 (Optimist (dinghy), Optimist), 1985 (470) and 1988 (Flying Dutchman). He is a four-time Olympian. Doreste took the Olympic Oath, Athlete's Oath at Barcelona in 1992. He is the brother of Manuel Doreste, Gustavo Doreste and José Doreste. He skippered Desafío Español 2007 at the 2007 Louis Vuitton Cup. References External links * 1961 births Living people 2000 America's Cup sailors 2007 America's Cup sailors Flying Dutchman class world champions Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1992 Summer O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert Laws (sailor)
Gilbert Umfreville Laws (6 January 1870 – 3 December 1918) was a British sailor who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics The 1908 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the IV Olympiad and also known as London 1908) were an international multi-sport event held in London, England, United Kingdom, from 27 April to 31 October 1908. The 1908 Games were ori .... He was the helmsman of the British boat ''Dormy'', which won the gold medal in the 6 metre class. References External links * * * 1870 births 1918 deaths British male sailors (sport) Sailors at the 1908 Summer Olympics – 6 Metre Olympic sailors of Great Britain English Olympic medallists Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain Olympic medalists in sailing Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics {{UK-yachtracing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sailing At The 1908 Summer Olympics
Sailing/Yachting is an Olympic sport starting from the Games of the 1st Olympiad ( 1896 Olympics in Athens, Greece). With the exception of the 1904 and the canceled 1916 Summer Olympics, sailing has always been included on the Olympic schedule. The Sailing program of 1908 was open for a total of five sailing classes (disciplines), but actually only four Sailing events were contested. The planned venue of all races, named ''matches'', was Ryde, Isle of Wight. Venue At the 1907 The Hague Conference of the IOC Ryde at the Isle of Wight was appointed to host the sailing regattas, for all classes, of the games of the IVth Olympiad. However, when there were only two British entries for the 12 Metre matches, and both yacht were located at the Firth of Clyde, the decision was made to use Hunters Quay as a second venue. Royal Victoria Yacht Club, Ryde The RVYC was founded on 24 May 1845 by Prince Albert to give Queen Victoria a Yacht Club which she was entitled to enter as a me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
6 Metre
The International Six Metre class is a class of classic racing yachts. Sixes are a '' construction class'', meaning that the boats are not identical but are all designed to meet specific measurement formula, in this case International rule. At their heyday, Sixes were the most important international yacht racing class, and they are still raced around the world. "Six metre" in class name does not, somewhat confusingly, refer to length of the boat, but product of the formula; 6mR boats are, on average, 10–11 metres long. History The International rule was set up in 1907 to replace numerous handicap systems which were often local, or at best national, and often also fairly simple, producing extreme boats which were fast but lightly constructed and impractical. The Six Metre class was not the smallest rating established under the rule, but was nonetheless the most popular, and they were chosen as an Olympic class in 1908. However, it was not until revision of the Rule in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nacra 17
The Nacra 17 is a performance catamaran used for sailing. It was designed in 2011, went into production in 2012 and has been the focus of multihull sailing at the Olympic Games since its conception. The Nacra has been converted to a sailing hydrofoil for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. History The Nacra 17 was specifically created to meet the criteria laid down for the new olympic discipline a first for Olympic sailing a mixed crewed boat. In May 2012 International Sailing Federation chose the Nacra 17 as the equipment for the mixed multi hull at the 2016 Olympic Sailing Regatta and 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Morrelli & Melvin, the boat's designers, summed up the design philosophy with the following quote: The ISAF Equipment Evaluation Panel wrote:http://www.sailing.org/38217.php ISAF Mixed Multihull Evaluation Report Events Olympics World Championship See also *ISAF Sailing World Championships *World Sailing World Sailing (WS) is the world governing body for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laser Radial
The Laser Radial or ILCA 6 is a popular one-design class of small sailing dinghy, originally built by Laser Performance. It is a singlehanded boat, meaning that it is sailed by one person. The Laser Radial is a variant of the Laser standard, with shorter mast and reduced sail area, allowing light sailors to sail in heavy winds. The International Class is recognised by World Sailing. Events Olympics The Laser Radial was chosen for singlehanded women discipline at the Summer Olympic starting with the 2008 summer games regatta in Qingdao, China. World championships Men's Laser Radial World Championship Women's Laser Radial World Championship Men's Youth Laser Radial World Championship Men's Youth Under 21 Laser Radial World Championship Men's Youth Under 17 Laser Radial World Championship Youth Sailing World Championships =Boys= =Girls= Women's Youth Laser Radial World Championship Women's Youth (Under 21) Laser Radial World Championship Women's Youth (Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Formula Kite
Formula Kite is the kitesurfing class chosen by World Sailing for 2024 Summer Olympics. The class features a foil kite and a board with a hydrofoil. The equipment is not one-design, but instead competitors use their choice of approved production equipment. The International Kiteboarding Association (IKA) manages the class. The class is for men and women. See also * Windfoiling Windfoiling (or foil windsurfing) is a surface water sport that is the hydrofoiling evolution of windsurfing, as well as typical sailing boats and sailing hydrofoils. It uses similar equipment to windsurfing with a normal or slightly evolved rig on ... References Olympic sailing classes Hydrofoils {{Water-sports-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
49er (dinghy)
The 49er and 49er FX is a two-handed skiff-type high-performance sailing dinghy. The two crew work on different roles with the helm making many tactical decisions, as well as steering, and the crew doing most of the sail control. Both of the crew are equipped with their own trapeze and sailing is done while cantilevered over the water to the fullest extent to balance against the sails. The 49er was designed by Julian Bethwaite (the son of Frank Bethwaite) and developed by a consortium consisting of Bethwaites, Performance Sailcraft Japan, Peter Johnston, and Ovington boats. The boat has been an Olympic class since it was selected by the International Sailing Federation to be the men's high performance double handed dinghy Sydney Summer Games of 2000. Its derivative featuring a re-designed rig, the 49er FX, was selected by World Sailing to be the women's high performance double-hander at the Rio Summer Olympics of 2016. History The 49er's name comes from its hull length of . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luc Pillot
Luc Pillot (born 10 July 1959) is a French sailor and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in the 470 class at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, together with Thierry Peponnet. They received bronze medals in 1984. Pillot won the yachting race Tour de France à la voile in 1998. He was the skipper of Le Défi at the 2003 Louis Vuitton Cup The 6th Louis Vuitton Cup was held in Auckland, New Zealand, in 2003. The winner, Alinghi, went on to challenge for and win the 2003 America's Cup. The teams The Yacht Club Punta Ala was the challenger of record. Alinghi Founded by Swiss bus .... References External links * * * 1959 births Living people French male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for France Sailors at the 1984 Summer Olympics – 470 Sailors at the 1988 Summer Olympics – 470 Olympic gold medalists for France Olympic medalists in sailing Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thierry Peponnet
Thierry Peponnet (born 7 September 1959) is a French sailor and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in the 470 class at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, together with Luc Pillot. They received bronze medals in 1984. He was involved with Le Défi in the 1995 Louis Vuitton Cup and 2000 Louis Vuitton Cup, and Areva Challenge at the 2007 Louis Vuitton Cup The 2007 Louis Vuitton Cup held in Valencia, Spain, from April 16 to June 6 was the event used to select the challenger for the 2007 America's Cup. Eleven potential challengers competed in the competition which consisted of two round robins, .... References External links * * * * 1959 births Living people French male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for France Olympic gold medalists for France Olympic bronze medalists for France Olympic medalists in sailing Sailors at the 1984 Summer Olympics – 470 Sailors at the 1988 Summer Olympics – 470 Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics Medalists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
