RS500 World Championship

The RS500 World Championship is an annual international sailing regatta of RS500 two person dinghy, organized by the host club on behalf of the International RS500 Class Association and recognized by World Sailing, the sports IOC recognized governing body.

Events

Ed.	Date		Host			Sailors			Boats				Ref.
	Day/Month	Year	Host club	Location	Nat.	Tot	Nat	Con	Boat			Mix
01	15–20 August	2010		Bruinisse	Netherlands	44	5	2	22				[1] [2]
02	15–21 August	2011	Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy	Isle of Portland		108	8	3	54				[3] [4] [5]
03	23–27 July	2012	Fraglia Vela Riva	Lake Garda	Italy	72	5	2	36				[6] [5]
04	5–9 August	2013	Segelsällskapet Kaparen	Onsala	Sweden	70	6	2	35				[7] [8]
05	19–23 August	2014	CN Loctudy	Loctudy	France	102	5	1	51				[9] [10]
06	2–6 August	2015		Bruinisse	Netherlands	128	8	1	64				[11] [12]
07	25–29 July	2016	Travemunder Woche	Travemunder	Germany	86	8	1	43				[13] [14] [15]
08	24–28 July	2017	Centro Vela Alto Lario	Gravedona, Lake Como	Italy	122	8	1	62				[16] [17]
09	21–25 August	2018	Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy	Isle of Portland	United Kingdom	100	9	2	50				[18] [19]
10	5–9 August	2019		Lake Lipno	Czech Republic	118	10	2	59				[20] [21] [22]
N/A		2020		Travemunde	Germany	CANCELLED COVID
11	2–6 August	2021		Lake Como	Italy	116	7	1	58				[23]
12	30 July - 5 Aug	2022	Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy	Isle of Portland	United Kingdom	68	6	1	34				[24] [25] [26]
13		2023	Yacht Club Nechranice	Nechranice	Czech Republic	88	8	1	44				[27] [28] [29] [30]
14		2024		Bruinisse	Netherlands	116	10	1	58				[31]
15		2025	Lega Navale Italiana Follonica		Czech Republic	82	6	1	41	23	5	13	[32]

Medalists

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
2010	Great Britain Tim Wilkins Heather Martin	Great Britain Alex Taylor Bryan Mobbs	Netherlands Berend Hilterman Max Blom	[2]
2011	Great Britain Alex Taylor Bryan Mobbs	Great Britain Tim Wilkins Heather Martin	Netherlands Barend Hiltermann Max Blom	[4]
2012	Great Britain Tim Wilkins Heather Martin	Carolyn Howe  (USA)   Mischa Heemskerk  (NED)	Great Britain Gregory Bartlett Paul Bartlett	[5]
2013	Karin Söderström  (SWE)   Ingrid Soderstrom  (SWE)	Great Britain Peter Barton Heather Chipperfield	Great Britain Tim Wilkins Heather Martin	[8]
2014	Great Britain Tim Wilkins Heather Martin	Great Britain Mike Saul Meg Fletcher	Great Britain Peter Barton Heather Chipperfield
2015	Great Britain Peter Barton Heather Chipperfield	Sweden Malin Broberg Johan Rook	Great Britain Peter Curtis James Curtis
2016	Pim van Vugt  (NED)   Lisa van Vugt  (NED)	Sweden Martin Johansson Axel Johansson	Italy Federico Maccari Stefano Costini
2017	Italy Federico Maria Maccari Filippo Maccari	Italy Francesco Bozano Gandolfo Andrea Dellepiane	Sweden Martin Johansson Axel Johansson
2018	Pim van Vugt  (NED)   Lisa van Vugt  (NED)	Stephen Cockerill  (GBR)  Sarah Cockerill (GBR)	France Nicolas Honor Thomas Honor
2019	Great Britain Peter Curtis James Curtis	Italy Jacopo Roncuzzi Federico Roncuzzi	Czech Republic Jakub Dobry Tereza Dobra	[22]
2020	Cancelled due to COVID-19
2021	Jakub Dobry  (CZE)   Tereza Dobra  (CZE)	Hylke Kooistra (NED) T homas Holewijn (NED)	Jesper Overbeeke (NED)  Merle Meinhardt (NED)
2022	GBR 625  Tim Wilkins (GBR)  Heather Wilkins (GBR)	GBR 1040  Edd Whitehead (GBR)  Ian Mairs (GBR)	GBR 1746  Hugh Watson (GBR)  Luke Watson (GBR)	[26]
2023	GBR 1756   Stephen Cockerill  (GBR)  Sarah Cockerill (GBR)	GBR 1681  Peter Curtis (GBR)  James Curtis (GBR)	GBR 1746  Hugh Watson (GBR)  Luke Watson (GBR)	[30]
2024	NED 819   Pim van Vugt  (NED)  Lisa van Vugt (NED)	GBR 920  Tim Wilkins (GBR)  Heather Wilkins (GBR)	GBR 529  Paul Cullen (GBR)  Fresh Abendstern (GBR)	[31]
2025	Gabriele Corsi (ITA)  Giulia Galletti (ITA)	Tim Wilkins (GBR)  Fresh Abendstern (GBR)	Iacopo Roncuzzi (ITA)  Federico Roncuzzi (ITA)	[32]

References

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