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

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(formerly ISAF) and held every four years since 2003. In contrast to other years, when each class organise their

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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

References

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