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| Nationality | American | |||||||||||||
| Born | November 3, 1996 (age 25) Long Beach, California, U.S. | |||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) | |||||||||||||
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Riley Gibbs (born November 3, 1996) is an American sailor. He qualified to represent Team USA in the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, competing with Anna Weis in the Nacra 17 (Mixed Two-Person Multihull) event. [1] [2] [3] [4]
William Ryan is an Australian sailor and an Olympic champion in the Men's 470 class with Mathew Belcher.
Nathan James Outteridge is an Australian sailor, a resident of Lake Macquarie.
Santiago Raúl Lange is an Argentine Olympic sailor and a naval architect.
Peter Burling is a New Zealand sailor. He was the 2021 America's Cup winning skipper and helmsman, and the 2017 America's Cup winning helmsman of Team New Zealand, and won an Olympic gold medal in the 49er class at the 2016 games and silver medals in the 2012 and 2020 Olympics.
John Forbes is an Australian sailor and has competed at three Olympic Games, winning a bronze at Barcelona 1992 and silver in 2000 at the Sydney Games.
Nacra Sailing is a Dutch company that manufactures a line of small catamaran sailboats, or beachcats. NACRA was founded in 1975 to tap into the market created by Hobie Alter the founder of Hobie Cat, and several other companies offering small fiberglass catamarans designed to be sailed off the beach by a crew of one or two.
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.
Andrew Blair Tuke is a New Zealand sailor who won the 2021 Americas Cup Held in Auckland and also won the 2017 Version held in Bermuda. He also won the gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 49er class alongside Peter Burling.
Jason Saunders is a New Zealand sailor.
Sailing competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo took place from 25 July to 4 August 2021 at the Enoshima Yacht Harbor in Enoshima. The venue was also used for the 1964 Olympic Games although significantly regenerated, the IOC now encouraging regeneration, cost reductions and sustainability. The RS:X, Laser, Laser Radial, Finn, 470, 49er, 49erFX, and Nacra17 are all returning for 2020; there are no significant changes to the Olympic programme from 2016.
Billy Besson is a French competitive sailor.
Paul Kohlhoff is a German sailor. He represented Germany, along with partner Carolina Werner, in the Nacra 17 class at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and at the 2020 Summer Olympics, with Alica Stuhlemmer, winning the bronze medal.
Ruggero Tita is an Italian sailor. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, with Caterina Banti, in Nacra 17, winning a gold medal.
The following were the scheduled events of sailing for the year 2017 throughout the world.
Sailing competitions at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru took place between August 3 and 10, 2019 at the Yacht Club Peruano in the city of Paracas.
Alica Stuhlemmer is a German sailor who lives in Altenholz. She represented Germany, along with partner Paul Kohlhoff, in the Nacra 17 class at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, winning the bronze medal. At 22 years old Alica was the youngest sailor to win a medal throughout all sailing disciplines in Tokyo.
Anna Weis is an American sailor. She qualified to represent Team USA at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, competing with Riley Gibbs in the Nacra 17 event.
Quentin Delapierre is a French sailor. He competed in the Nacra 17 event at the 2020 Summer Olympics. At the 2021–22 SailGP championship, he replaced Billy Besson as the helm of the French SailGP team.
Sailing competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics are scheduled to run from 28 July to 8 August at Marseille Marina. The number of sailors competing across ten different classes at these Games has been reduced from 350 to 330, with an equal distribution between men and women. Furthermore, several significant changes are instituted in the sailing program for Paris 2024 to reinforce gender equality and vast diversity among the nations in the qualifying process. Five classes, namely Laser, Laser Radial, 49er, 49erFX, and Nacra 17 will remain in the program with the men's and women's 470 turning into a single mixed event. For the windsurfing classes, the existing RS:X has been replaced with the IQFoil, while the men's and women's Formula Kite will contest for the first time at these Games as a substitution to the men's Finn class.
This article details the qualifying phase for sailing at the 2024 Summer Olympics. 312 quota places for the Games are entitled to the sailors coming from their respective NOCs, based on the results at designated regattas supervised by World Sailing. Host nation France reserves a single boat in each of the ten sailing classes, whereas four quota places are distributed to the NOCs competing in the men's Laser and women's Laser Radial under the Tripartite Commission.
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