Sailing World Championships

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.

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]

2003

2007

2011

2014

2018

2023

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Host cities of the Sailing World Championships

Year	City	Country	Dates	Events	Athletes	Nations	Notes
2003	Cádiz	Spain	11–24 September	11	1,450	71	[2]
2007	Cascais	Portugal	28 June – 13 July	11	1,350	76	[3]
2011	Perth	Australia	3–18 December	10	789	76	[4]
2014	Santander	Spain	8–21 September	10	1,250	83	[5]
2018	Aarhus	Denmark	30 July – 12 August	12	1,500	100	[6]
2023	The Hague	Netherlands	10–20 August	14	1,100		[7]

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

As of 19th May 2024

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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

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