Venue
| Olympic Center Schilksee | |
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Olympiazentrum Schilksee | |
 Burgee of the Kieler Yacht Club | |
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| General information | |
| Status | Completed |
| Type | Olympic harbor |
| Country |  Germany |
| Coordinates | 54°25′48″N10°10′15″E / 54.43000°N 10.17083°E |
| Elevation | Sealevel |
| Construction started | 13 October 1969 |
| Cost | € 30,000,000 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Heinrich Storch Walter Ehlers |
According to the IOC statutes the contests in all sport disciplines must be held either in, or as close as possible to the city which the IOC has chosen. Among others, an exception is made for the Olympic yachting events, which customarily must be staged on the open sea. On account of this principle, immediately after it became known that the city of Munich had the intention of hosting the Games of the XXth Olympiad, the cities of Kiel and Lübeck competed for the honor to carry out the Olympic yachting regattas.
Kiel-Schilksee (Olympiazentrum)
When Kiel (and the Kieler Yacht-Club) won the competition the following was decided:
- a yachting center would be built in Kiel/Schilksee that, as was the case with the sport facilities in Munich, must be usable after the period of the Olympic Games as a future sports center;
- the city of Kiel will conduct a building competition for the Olympic Center in Kiel-Schilksee as soon as possible;
- the OC will form a committee for the Olympic yachting events to coordinate all contingencies arising in Kiel, and will in addition create a corresponding full-time organization of the OC in Kiel in order to handle the necessary work and activities in Kiel on schedule.
During the Games the number of spectators and visitors at the Olympic events in Kiel and at the Olympic Center in Kiel-Schilksee exceeded the expectations by a large margin. Conservative estimates put the total number at about a million spectators and visitors in Kiel.
Course areas
A total of three race areas were set in the Firth of Kiel of the coast of Kiel/Schilksee. The location points to the center of the 2 nm radius circle for course area A & B and to a 1.5 nm radius circle for course area C.
A: 54°29'50'’N, 10°22'00'’E (Soling & Dragon)
B: 54°30'30'’N, 10°13'45'’E(Flying Dutchman, Tempest & Star)
C: 54°30'30'’N, 10°13'00'’E (Finn)
