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Established | 2018 |
Number of tournaments | Annual |
Administrator | World Sailing |
Website | www |
The Esailing World Championship (ESWC) is an annual esports competition, first held in 2018 and officially recognized by World Sailing the main sports governing body. Esailing consists of real time regatta simulation via video game.
The video game support of the competition since 2018 is provided by the French company Virtual Regatta. Esailing is also one of the esport disciplines selected by the International Olympic Committee for the Olympics Esports Weeks (OEW) and Olympics Virtual Series (OVS).
Year | Finals Location | Winner | 2nd | 3rd | Discipline | Notes |
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2018 | Sarasota, Florida | "L1" - Elouan Le coq (FRA) | "Epicure" - O. Chapuis (FRA) | Alessandro Merlino (ITA) | Inshore Fleet Racing | [1] [2] |
2019 | Bermuda | "Velista71" - Filippo Lanfranchi (ITA) | "Asere" - Tristan Peron (FRA) | Luca Coslovich (ITA) | [3] [4] | |
2020 | Virtual | Joan Cardona Méndez (ESP) | CNS - Ramón Parejo (ESP) | "Déjà Vu" - Mike O'Donovan (GBR) | [5] [6] | |
2021 | Virtual | UOL - Carlos Parejo (ESP) | "VIT Chico" - Francisco Pinheiro de Melo (POR) | "MCES Pepito" - Tim Carpentier (FRA) | [7] | |
2022 | Alicante | "AlexK RS" - Alexandre Kowalski (FRA) | "Farley RS" - Arthur Farley (GBR) | Bart Lambriex (NED) | [8] | |
2023 | Trieste | "UOL Asere" - Tristan Peron (FRA) | "Farley RS" - Arthur Farley (GBR) | "UOL Pepito" - Tim Carpentier (FRA) | [9] [10] | |
2024 | Stockholm | "F7 RS" - Arthur Farley (GBR) | "ChicoPmelo" - Francisco Pinheiro de Melo (POR) | "FUNe KG-R" - Toshiki Kogure (JPN) | [11] [12] [13] [14] |
Since 2020, the Esailing Team World Championship are also organized among supporting national federations of World Sailing. The team from Great Britain (GBR) won the first edition, followed by the team from France (FRA) in 2021 and 2022 and the team from Italie (ITA) in 2023
Ranking of nation by medal obtained in Esailing World Championships from World Sailing
Country - federation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | ESWC participants | ||||
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France (FRA) | 6 |
| 3 |
| 2 |
| 18 |
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Great Britain (GBR) | 2 |
| 4 |
| 1 |
| 7 |
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Spain (ESP) | 2 |
| 2 |
| 1 |
| 8 |
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Italie (ITA) | 2 |
| 1 |
| 3 |
| 10 |
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Portugal (POR) | 2 |
| 2 |
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Japan (JPN) | 3 |
| 6 |
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Netherlands (NED) | 1 |
| 5 |
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Turkiye (TUR) | 3 |
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Greece (GRE) | 2 |
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New Zealand (NZL) | 1 |
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Croatia (CRO) | 1 |
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Germany (GER) | 1 |
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Switzerland (SUI) | 1 |
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Sweden (SWE) | 1 |
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Poland (POL) | 1 |
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Brasil (BRA) | 1 |
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During the Spring 2021, The Olympics Virtual Series where held. For the first time, 5 esports disciplines organized esport Competition under the Olympic realm.
Esailing being one of the 5 selected esports.
The Inshore Series featured three action-fueled events which each crowned a winner and runners-up. The three events were split into three boat types; the 49’er, Laser and Nacra 17, and took place on the shores of Kiel, Rio de Janeiro and Marseille. [15] [16]
Boat | Winner | 2nd | 3rd | Notes |
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Laser | "Havuc" - Kaan Mazlumca (TUR) | Mike O'Donovan (GBR) | Tim Carpentier (FRA) | [17] |
Boat | Winner | 2nd | 3rd | Notes |
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49er | Lukas Mohr (DEN) | Arhur Farley (GBR) | Tangi Le Goff (FRA) | [18] |
Boat | Winner | 2nd | 3rd | Notes |
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Nacra | Arhur Farley (GBR) | Bart Lambriex (NED) | Joan Cardona Méndez (ESP) | [19] [20] |
The Offshore Race was a race from Rio to Tokyo.
As a follow-up to 2021's Olympic Virtual Series, the IOC and the Singapore National Olympic Council held the inaugural Olympic Esports Week in Singapore in June 2023. Several Sports Games were part of the event including esailing whose finale was held on 23 June. [21] [22]
Winner | 2nd | 3rd | Notes |
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"UOL Pepito" - Tim Carpentier (FRA) | Cavan Fyans (GBR) | "Magic - ChicoPMelo" Francisco Melo (POR) |
In September 2024, The Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup has entered into esport with AC Sailing and the first-ever esport AC championship.
The competition consisted of six weekly online qualifier rounds, with the winners earning their spot in the America’s Cup e-Series Grand Final.
Two additional wild-card players joined the live final held on September 28th in Barcelona. The final saw the victory of Liam Dimock | EsailingCentral from New Zealand after 5 contested Races, bringing home the trophy and 25000€ cash prize. [25] [26] [27] [28]
The competition was held using the America Cup sailing simulator game, developed & published by Emirates Team New Zealand [29]
Boat | Winner | 2nd | 3rd | Notes |
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AC 40 | "EsailingCentral" - Liam Dimock (NZL) | "Booshify" Robbie Wooldridge (NZL) | BengBengFra (FRA) | [30] |
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