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List of Olympic medalists in sailing by class


Open

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Men's

470 __NOTOC__ Year 470 ( CDLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Severus and Iordanes (or, less frequently, year 1223 ' ...


Women's

470 __NOTOC__ Year 470 ( CDLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Severus and Iordanes (or, less frequently, year 1223 ' ...


49er


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Men’s

Kite A kite is a tethered heavier-than-air or lighter-than-air craft with wing surfaces that react against the air to create lift and drag forces. A kite consists of wings, tethers and anchors. Kites often have a bridle and tail to guide the fac ...

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Women’s

Kite A kite is a tethered heavier-than-air or lighter-than-air craft with wing surfaces that react against the air to create lift and drag forces. A kite consists of wings, tethers and anchors. Kites often have a bridle and tail to guide the fac ...

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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, ...


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 ...


Discontinued classes


International Metre Rule


5.5 Metre


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 ...


7 Metre


8 Metre


10 Metre


12 Metre The 12 Metre class is a rating class for racing sailboats that are designed to the International Rule (sailing), International rule. It enables fair competition between boats that rate in the class whilst retaining the freedom to experiment with t ...


6.5 Metre


12' Dinghy


12 Square meter Sharpie


18' Dinghy


Finn


Skerry cruiser thumb Skerry cruisers (or Square metre yachts) are yachts, usually wooden, which are constructed according to the Square metre rule. Originating from Sweden, they were historically most popular in the Baltic Sea, though some classes also saw popu ...


30m2 Skerry cruiser


40m2 Skerry cruiser


Division II


Dragon


Elliott 6m The Elliott 6m is an Olympic-class keelboat, designed by New Zealander, Greg Elliott. It was selected for the women's match race, match racing event for the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2012 Olympics. The Elliott 6m carries a spinnaker pole and Spinnake ...


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Firefly


Flying Dutchman The ''Flying Dutchman'' ( nl, De Vliegende Hollander) is a legendary ghost ship, allegedly never able to make port, but doomed to sail the seven seas forever. The myth is likely to have originated from the 17th-century Golden Age of the Du ...


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Lechner A-390 The Lechner A-390 was an Olympic Class windsurf board for the 1992 Olympics.http://www.sailing.org/olympics/history-part-5.php Olympic sailing report ISAF It was only raced at the Games that year. Description Lechner was modified their Divisi ...


Mistral One Design The Mistral One Design Class (MOD) is a windsurfing class chosen by the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) for use at the Olympic Regatta in Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004. Starting with the 2008 Summer Olympics it was replace ...


O-Jolle


Men's RS:X


Women's RS:X


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Soling The Soling is an open keelboat that holds the World Sailing "International class" status. The class was used from the 1972 Olympics (Kiel) until the 2000 Olympics (Sydney) as " Open Three Person Keelboat". Besides the Olympic career of the Soli ...


Star


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Tempest Tempest is a synonym for a storm. '' The Tempest'' is a play by William Shakespeare. Tempest or The Tempest may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Films * ''The Tempest'' (1908 film), a British silent film * ''The Tempest'' (1911 film), a ...


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


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Windglider For the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics,http://www.sailing.org/olympics/history-part-4.php Olympic sailing report ISAF the Olympic board choice was between the original Windsurfer One Design manufactured by Hoyle Schweitzer and the Windglider designed ...


Yngling The Ynglings were a dynasty of kings, first in Sweden and later in Norway, primarily attested through the poem ''Ynglingatal''. The dynasty also appears as Scylfings (Old Norse ''Skilfingar'') in '' Beowulf''. When ''Beowulf'' and ''Ynglingatal'' ...


References

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Sailing Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the ''water'' (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ''ice'' (iceboat) or on ''land'' (land yacht) over a chosen cou ...
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