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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 World Sailing (WS) is the world sport governing body, governing body for the sailing (sport), sport of sailing recognized by the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). History The creation of the Inter ...
(formerly ISAF) and held every four years since 2003. In contrast to other years, when each class organise their
World championship A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...
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

In 1998 the ISAF WOrld Sailing Championships were held in Dubai. The ISAF Sailing World Championships was held in
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in 2003, followed by Cascais in 2007 and
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in 2011. In 2014,
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hosted the 4th ISAF Sailing World Championships attracting more than 1,100 competitors, which distributed half of
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for the 2016 Summer Olympics sailing event.


Editions


Equipment

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


All-time medal table


See also

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Olympic sailing classes The Olympic sailing classes have been used in the sport of Sailing/Yachting during the Olympic Summer Games since 1896. Since then, 46 different classes have been used. History Over a period of more than 112 years, in a sport that uses complex te ...
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Sailing at the Summer Olympics Sailing (also known as yachting until 2000) has been one of the Olympic sports since the Games of the I Olympiad, held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. Despite being scheduled in the first Olympic program, the races were canceled due to severe weathe ...
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World championships in sailing World championships in sailing are world championships organised or sanctioned by World Sailing (formerly the International Sailing Federation or ISAF). As a sport, sailing has the largest number of world championships due to the diversity of equipm ...
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Windsurfing World Championships The Windsurfing World Championships is an international sailing competition organized by World Sailing held since 1980, now annually. Men Mistral Class RS:X Class Women Mistral Class RS:X Class See also *Sailing World Championships The ...


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Sailing competitions
{{Main world championships World Sailing World championships in sailing